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How Has The Law Of God Been Summarized?
If you ever had a teacher or a professor tell you to summarize a chapter of the text book, you know that he wanted you to condense the contents of the chapter into a few brief statements. Such a summary highlights only the main points. In the same way our Lord has summarized his law for us. Let us see how.
In Isaiah 28:13 Isaiah wrote, “So the word of the Lord to them will be: Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, law upon law, law upon law, a little here, a little there.” The wayward priests and prophets of the Old Testament had mocked God’s Word as a great many laws of do’s and don’ts and rules. In this verse God said that is just what his Word would become to them as his judgment on them. God’s law does consist of many moral do’s and don’ts for our learning and for our Christian life of faith.
We read in Exodus 34:28, “And he (the Lord) wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant – the Ten Commandments.” God summarized the do’s and the don’ts of his moral law into ten, simple commandments, so we may better remember what his law forbids and demands.
And in Matthew 22:37-40 our Lord Jesus Christ said, “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL’ and with all your mind; This is the greatest and most important commandment. And the second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF’ The whole Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” In these verses Jesus further summarized the moral law of God’s ten commandments into but two commandments: Love God above all, and love your neighbor as yourself.
And now you know how the Lord has summarized his law for you as well.
In Isaiah 28:13 Isaiah wrote, “So the word of the Lord to them will be: Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, law upon law, law upon law, a little here, a little there.” The wayward priests and prophets of the Old Testament had mocked God’s Word as a great many laws of do’s and don’ts and rules. In this verse God said that is just what his Word would become to them as his judgment on them. God’s law does consist of many moral do’s and don’ts for our learning and for our Christian life of faith.
We read in Exodus 34:28, “And he (the Lord) wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant – the Ten Commandments.” God summarized the do’s and the don’ts of his moral law into ten, simple commandments, so we may better remember what his law forbids and demands.
And in Matthew 22:37-40 our Lord Jesus Christ said, “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL’ and with all your mind; This is the greatest and most important commandment. And the second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF’ The whole Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” In these verses Jesus further summarized the moral law of God’s ten commandments into but two commandments: Love God above all, and love your neighbor as yourself.
And now you know how the Lord has summarized his law for you as well.