After reading only the first two letters, I am impressed at how closely related purity, blamelessness, and the law are. If you don't love purity you will not love the Word. If you do not love the Word, it is impossible to be pure in life. The Word is a boundary or guardrail for our life to keep us on the path of life. The guardrails are not guarding a wide road, but a narrow one. With all the hyper-righteous and self-righteous teaching today that deletes, devalues, and de-emphasizes the law, is it any wonder that professing Christians struggle so much with worldliness and sin?
When David spoike of the Word, he was speaking of the law. That's about all the Word that was written in his day. We say, in modern Christianity, that we pray for a heart like David's yet we disregard the very thing that created that heart within him. The whole law has not been abolished, only the sacrificial part. There is no more need for sacrifice because Christ was sacrificed, once for all, but the moral law remains. The 10 commandments still apply!! The prophecies in the law that are yet unfulfilled were not done away with, they WILL come to pass to fulfill the law. The principles that the law established remain for God has not and never will change, nor has His view of sin softened. If anything, it has become more severe because it cost Him His only begotten son. In the OT acts of lust (adultery, fornication) were sin. In the NT, just the thoughts of such things are sin. In the OT murder was a sin. In the NT, thoughts of murder are the same as committing them. The difference? The indwelling of the source of power to not sin! When the Holy Spirit came upon people in the OT, they did miraculous things. How much more miraculous should our lives be now that He abides? We are without excuse!
When David spoike of the Word, he was speaking of the law. That's about all the Word that was written in his day. We say, in modern Christianity, that we pray for a heart like David's yet we disregard the very thing that created that heart within him. The whole law has not been abolished, only the sacrificial part. There is no more need for sacrifice because Christ was sacrificed, once for all, but the moral law remains. The 10 commandments still apply!! The prophecies in the law that are yet unfulfilled were not done away with, they WILL come to pass to fulfill the law. The principles that the law established remain for God has not and never will change, nor has His view of sin softened. If anything, it has become more severe because it cost Him His only begotten son. In the OT acts of lust (adultery, fornication) were sin. In the NT, just the thoughts of such things are sin. In the OT murder was a sin. In the NT, thoughts of murder are the same as committing them. The difference? The indwelling of the source of power to not sin! When the Holy Spirit came upon people in the OT, they did miraculous things. How much more miraculous should our lives be now that He abides? We are without excuse!
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