Lesson Theme: Which Commandments are OK to break?
How many times have you been to churches that teach sometimes we are supposed to observe old testament laws, and sometimes it seems perfectly acceptable to break them. Who is right on this issue? How can we possibly know which ones are ok to break? Who decides? Surely not our culture around us, right?
Modern society teaches us that right and wrong are ambiguous at best. That, instead, there is only Legal and Illegal. What is illegal today is ‘currently wrong’ and may be legal in the future, in which case, it is acceptable and there is ‘nothing wrong’ with it. Does God’s Law work this way?
Romans 7:1-13 paints quite a fascinating picture of the power of sin… the picture is that of a marriage union. The marriage is only dissolved when one of the two dies. (You DID know that marriage is a permanent thing, right? The trouble with my generation is, from tattoos to marriages, the Thought-to-Permanance ratio tends to be very shallow.) Sadly, we all were BORN into this marriage of SIN and it has power over us, holding us in bondage. It is the master, and the sinner is the slave. The law EXPOSES this unholy union. The law reveals our horrible destination. The only way out is death. (Sin, when it is finished, brings forth death) (You know that dead people cease from their sin, right?) But, there is another solution to this mess…
Note: No PowerPoint lesson today. Let’s just use our Bibles and make some notes in the margins.
“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”
— 1 Corinthians 10:31
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