DAY 69 Read Deuteronomy 5 through 7.
Today's reading includes a repetition of the Ten Commandments and gives some good advice to parents.
Memory gem: "Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations" (Deuteronomy 7:9).
Thought for today:
In 1 John 3:4 we read that "sin is the transgression of the law." But Jesus came to save us from our sins--in other words, our transgression of the law. This shows His relationship to God's law, or the Ten Commandments. If Christ did not consider the law of God to be the very character of God Himself, He would not have come to this world to die for the sins of men. It is good for us to remember that the cross of Jesus is the absolute proof of the eternal validity of the Ten Commandments.
In Christ's time there were people who hated the Ten Commandments, just as there are today. One modern writer and would-be political aspirant in the United States said some time ago: "There is no law save the law of man's own being; no check upon his will save that which he himself imposes. True pleasure is the end of being."
On the other hand, it is written in the Scriptures: "It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law" (Psalm 119:126).
One of the latest of these godless theories comes from the realm of science. A professor of an institute of scientific learning diagnosis the whole thing this way: "Crime is simply the result of too much pyruvic acid in one's thalamus cells; or it may be from no cocarboxylase operating in the thalamus and not enough acetylchlorine being delivered to the midbrain." But the apostle said: "Sin is the transgression of the law," not a physical defect.
The Lord never says "must not" about anything that is harmless or good. But He has put up some warning signs which are like lighthouses. These signs say: "This is a bad place--keep out. Danger--you will wreck your ship." The Ten Commandments are God's lighthouse. They help us to sail our bark past places that would wreck our lives.
Today's reading includes a repetition of the Ten Commandments and gives some good advice to parents.
Memory gem: "Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations" (Deuteronomy 7:9).
Thought for today:
In 1 John 3:4 we read that "sin is the transgression of the law." But Jesus came to save us from our sins--in other words, our transgression of the law. This shows His relationship to God's law, or the Ten Commandments. If Christ did not consider the law of God to be the very character of God Himself, He would not have come to this world to die for the sins of men. It is good for us to remember that the cross of Jesus is the absolute proof of the eternal validity of the Ten Commandments.
In Christ's time there were people who hated the Ten Commandments, just as there are today. One modern writer and would-be political aspirant in the United States said some time ago: "There is no law save the law of man's own being; no check upon his will save that which he himself imposes. True pleasure is the end of being."
On the other hand, it is written in the Scriptures: "It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law" (Psalm 119:126).
One of the latest of these godless theories comes from the realm of science. A professor of an institute of scientific learning diagnosis the whole thing this way: "Crime is simply the result of too much pyruvic acid in one's thalamus cells; or it may be from no cocarboxylase operating in the thalamus and not enough acetylchlorine being delivered to the midbrain." But the apostle said: "Sin is the transgression of the law," not a physical defect.
The Lord never says "must not" about anything that is harmless or good. But He has put up some warning signs which are like lighthouses. These signs say: "This is a bad place--keep out. Danger--you will wreck your ship." The Ten Commandments are God's lighthouse. They help us to sail our bark past places that would wreck our lives.
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