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very Iaw it is sin to t ransgress.
lt is a SPIRITUAL Jaw (Rom.
7:14).
lt
is fulfilled by the SPIRI–
TUAL LOVE that is God's precious
gift to us- his !ove placed within
us. "Wherefore the law is HOLY,
and the commandment HOLY, AND
JUST, ANO oooo" (Rom. 7:12).
To REPENT of sin means to turn
from sin. I t means to QUIT SIN–
NING! And t hat means to
stop
transgressing God's holy law.
And
the way to stop breaking it is to
begin KEEPING God's Command–
ments-ALL OF THEM, for if you
break only one, you bring on your–
se lf the penalty- ETERNAL
DEATH-and you
lose sal-
varion.
you what is sin. But your con–
science only troubles you when
you do what YOU THINK
is wrong!
And what you think is wrong,
another
may think is
right!
Your
CONSCIENCE IS NO CUIDE!
Sin is not t he doing of what you
think is wrong. Not the transgres–
sion of conscience-sin ·is· the t rans–
g ression ofGod's LAW
(I
John
3:4).
Sin is thinking and doi ng what
Goo SAYS is wrong- and he says it
in his Jaw.
One who does what he thinks is
right may be committing a great
deal of sin!
God says: "There is a way that
forsake HIS WAY, and the unrigh–
teous man HIS THOUGHTS: and Jet
him return unto the Lord, and he
wi ll have merey upon him; and to
our God, for he will abundantly
pardon. FOR MY THOUGHTS ARE
NOT YOUR THOUGHTS, NEITHER
ARE YOUR WAYS MY WAYS, saith
the Lord" (lsa. 55:6-8).
And
there
is THE WAY of salva–
tion! There is THE
w
AY to find
Goo! SEEK HIM, by forsaking–
WHAT? Forsaking YOUR WAY–
your thoughts! The way you have
THOUGHT to be right.
The WAY of SALVATION
The first s tep toward sal–
Now Jesus "magnified
the Jaw, and made it hon–
ourable" ( rsaiah 42:21).
When we pul a spiritual
"magnifying glass," so to
speak, on the Ten Com–
mandments, it is enlarged
in spirit and principie into
many more points. And in
a larger aspect the ENTIRE
BIBLE is a magnification
of God's law. The law is
the basis of all Scripture.
lt
defines THE WAY Of
life-the way to happi–
ness, joy, eterna! life!
Notice how
like God
it
i s ! Th e l aw is oooo
(Rom . 7:12). God is
good .
But neither your repentance, fol–
lowed by your obedience, nor
your faith earns any salvation!
They are mere/y prior condi–
tions. But when you supply these
two ingredients, then God stands
bound by his promise to impart
to you by his Holy Spirit his
right eousness, and Christ' s
faith - and these, supplied by
vation is to REPENT, and
that means forsake your
way- the c ustoms and
traditions you have been
following, the ways of
man, the ways you have
been living . FORSAKE
YOUR OWN WAY. Turn tO
God's way-the way of
HIS LAW! The way of HIS
WILL! Yes, the WAY of
success, achievement , do–
ing good, of prosperity–
the WA Y of ETERNA L
LJ FE!
Since the entire Bible
contains t he magnified
explana tion of Goo 's
LA
w,
the Bible becomes
OUR GUIDE FOR RIGH–
TEOUS ANO SUCCESSFUL
LIVING! That is why J esus
said man shall live by
The law is HOLY (Rom.
7: 12). Go o is holy!
God, are the ingredients that
save and impart eterna! lije!
The law is JUST (Rom.
7: 12) . Goo is just!
The Iaw is SPIRITUAL ( Rom.
7:14). Goo is spiritual!
The law is PERFECT ( Psalm
19:7). Goo is perfect!
The law- including all bis Com–
mandments- is immutable, ETER–
NAL, s tands fast FOREVER ANO
EVER {Ps. 111 :7-8). And Goo is
eterna!!
Of course- for the law is the
very character, the very nature, of
God! lt is the WILL of God.
Conscience Not Your Gulde
But in the modern-day Babylon–
confusion o f conflicting teach–
ings-you have been taught, false–
ly, that YOUR CONSCIENCE telJs
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seemeth
right
unto a
man,
but the
e nd t hereof a r e th e ways of
DEATH" ! (Prov. 14: 12 and 16:25 .)
Again, " The way of a fool is right
in his own eyes" (Prov. 12: 15).
And :
"All
the ways of a man are
clea n in h is own eyes" (Prov.
16:2). T he world has been going
t he
w
AY that seems right to man
for sorne
6,000
years. But this
w
AY has brought only unhappi–
ness, emptiness, d iscontent, pover–
ty, sickness and disease and final–
ly, CHAOS and DESPAIR al! over the
world! lt has produced NOTHI NG
oooo !
God says: "SEEK YE the Lord
while he may be found, call upon
him while he is near; let the wicked
every word of
Goo!
T rue repentance means you
give your SELF to God. And the
only kind of repentance that is
prerequisite to the gift of eterna!
Jife is COMPLETE ANO UNCONDI–
TIONAL SURRENDER TO Goo- to
his will, which means to HIS LA
w.
You become HtS, literally, and
who ll y, with no r eservations !
R epen ta nce i s a COMPLETE
CHANGE in your life- in your ·
attitude
TOWARO
life-your pur–
pose
in life- your THOUGHTS and
your
ACTIONS.
It
means forsaking sorne of your
old friends and companions- if
they are living t he worldly life that
seems
right
to MAN. lt means turn–
ing from and forsak ing worldly
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