The Moral Law

1. The Moral Law

2. The Moral Law • Three types of law in the Bible

3. The Moral Law • Moral law

4. The Moral Law • Moral law • Civil law

5. The Moral Law • Moral law • Civil law • Ceremonial law

6. The Moral Law • Moral law Is still in force today, binding on believer or unbeliever

7. The Moral Law • Civil laws Of Israel not necessarily binding on people or nations today.

8. The Moral Law • Ceremonial law Fulfilled in Christ

9. The Moral Law • Exodus 20-31 • Leviticus • Deuteronomy

10. The Moral Law • I do believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. Charles Spurgeon

11. The Moral Law • Ten Commandments

12. The Moral Law • Ten Commandments • Exodus 20

13. The Moral Law • Ten Commandments • Exodus 20 • Deuteronomy 5

14. The Moral Law • Ten Commandments • Exodus 20 • Given at Mt Sinai

15. The Moral Law • Ten Commandments • Deuteronomy 5 • Plains of Moab 40 years later

16. The Moral Law • The law was not given as a means of salvation.

17. The Moral Law • Acts 13:39 and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

18. The Moral Law • Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

19. The Moral Law • Galations 2:21  ”I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”

20. The Moral Law • Designed to show we are sinners

21. The Moral Law • Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

22. The Moral Law • Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

23. The Moral Law • Galations 3:19 What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator

24. The Moral Law • Penalty of the law

25. The Moral Law • Galations 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

26. The Moral Law • James 2:10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.

27. The Moral Law “Unless we see our shortcomings in the light of the Law and holiness of God, we do not see them as sin at all” J I Packer

28. The Moral Law • Law prepared the way for faith in Christ

29. The Moral Law • The law was a tutor until Christ came.

30. The Moral Law • Galations 3:24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

31. The Moral Law • Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

32. The Moral Law • Christ paid the penalty

33. The Moral Law • Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

34. The Moral Law • Believer no longer under the law

35. The Moral Law • Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

36. The Moral Law • Under the law of Christ

37. The Moral Law • 1 Corinthians 9:21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ, that I might win those who are without law;

38. The Moral Law • Christ has become the rule of life

39. The Moral Law • Ephesians 5:1-2 1 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

40. The Moral Law • 1 John 2:6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

41. The Moral Law • 1 John 3:16 By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

42. The Moral Law • Should we obey the Decalogue?

43. The Moral Law • Nine of the Ten Commandments repeated in the New Testament

44. The Moral Law • The one exception being the Sabbath

45. The Moral Law • The law not made for those already saved.

46. The Moral Law • 1 Timothy 1:9 knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person,

47. The Moral Law • The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-9) teach a higher standard.

48. The Moral Law • Matthew 22:37-39 • 37Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment.39And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

49. The Moral Law • The true function of the law is to accuse and kill. • But the function of the gospel is to make alive. Martin Luther

50. The Moral Law In Christ alone, Who took on flesh,Fullness of God in helpless babe!This gift of love and righteousness,Scorned by the ones He came to save.Till on that cross as Jesus died,The wrath of God was satisfied;For ev'ry sin on Him was laid—Here in the death of Christ I live.