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Yesterday in Adult Sunday School we continued our study of the Baptist Catechism we were on question 14, What are God’s works of providence? The instructor used mainly Old Covenant/Testament scripture to show God’s providence at work. In the Q&A before closing The question was posed ‘If we were without the New Testament, how could we read the Old to see God’s providence?’ After a few excellent remarks, I chipped in my two cents with this, for a long time I saw the OT as confusing until someone shared with me that I needed to read it with these three things in mind: 1) What LAW is God implying here [after all the Law of God is the OT] 2) What is God doing to protect, preserve, teach, etc. [how is God demonstrating His sovereign control] 3) How does this apply to the NT/today.

Many folks have a skewed view of God’s Law. From it only means the “Ten Commandments,” “I am a New Testament Christian,¹” or “The Three Laws of God found in the New Testament²,³” errors are prevalent in the modern church. It is God’s Law that informs all mankind of who God is, and His attributes. Without an understanding of God’s Law (even the most simplistic) man has no and can have no, sense of his own evil (sinful) state.

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DEVOTIONAL

The Law of God

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RELATED:

The Law of God – The Gospel Coalition

Hymns and God’s Law as a Tutor to Christ

Hymns and God’s Law as a Rule of Life

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FOOTNOTES:

1. https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts/ask-ligonier/is-it-acceptable-for-a-christian-to-read-only-the-new-testament ↩︎
2. https://www.christianwebsite.com/what-are-the-three-laws-of-god/ ↩︎
3. The three “uses of the law” refer to the ways in which moral law is used to restrain sinfulness, to convict sinners of sin, and to teach Christians how to live in a way pleasing to the Lord.
   Brian Collins, “The Three Uses of the Law,” in Lexham Survey of Theology, ed. Mark Ward et al. (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2018). ↩︎