God Works According to His Laws

God Works According to His Laws

Everything that God has created is subject to laws, from the largest boulders to the tiniest insects. God’s wisdom, His invisible being and power, are revealed through His entire creation. Everything is precisely arranged according to laws; both the existence of created things and their mutual relationship declare that God has made them.

Nature, which does not have a self-will, functions harmoniously according to God’s laws. As men gain knowledge of the laws that pertain to the creation, they increase their rule over it, for God gave man the commandment that they should subdue and rule over it. Gen. 1:28.

Even mankind was subject to laws, which they gladly and carefully followed until Satan, who had become lawless, led mankind astray into sin. Then mankind lost the image in which God had created them. They received a flesh in which sin ruled and which, according to law, resisted God, so that it became natural to do evil.

“Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Gen. 6:5.

Satan, the enemy of creation, had taken possession of mankind and introduced the law of sin into its members. Then God regretted that He had created man on earth, and He was grieved in His heart. Gen. 6:6.

We know that after the Fall, the Lord promised that the Seed of the woman would crush the serpent’s head. That promise contained the restoration, so that those of old could by faith resist sin and keep God’s word as far as they knew how.

God gave man the law, by Moses. It was a temporary measure, and even though it was holy and good, it could not make those who served God perfect according to their conscience. But it was to rein in the flesh until the times of restoration of all things. Acts 3:21.

The law can be said to be the condition for receiving what God has promised. As long as everything transpires according to the applicable laws of God, the blessings follow naturally and according to these laws. But if sin rules, the curse is guaranteed to be the harvest. Deut. 28.

Jesus came in the fullness of time, born under the law, in the likeness of men. His mission was what He said it was: to do God’s will. In that way He opened a way for man to be under all of God’s laws again. Thus Christ didn’t just restore the relationship that existed before the Fall, He also gave a new law, the law of the Spirit of life. We were not only to be like Adam before the Fall and follow His laws that pertained to this earth; the new law was to lead man into God’s presence and give him the opportunity to partake of God’s nature. Just as the first Adam was of the earth, earthly, so the second Adam, Christ, is heavenly. Just as the first Adam was subject to an earthly law, so Christ followed a heavenly law.

“For when Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, He went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.” Heb. 9:11. [Emphasis added]. Just as the one who is of the earth has to know all the laws that pertain to created things, so now we have to know and follow the laws that are not concerned with this creation.

We are now able, in the Spirit of Christ, to follow all the laws and commandments that He writes in our heart, because Christ was able to do it first. This is also according to law; therefore they could not accomplish it in the first covenant. Christ had to suffer first; He had to die first, be glorified, and send His Spirit to earth.

In the world people are driven by Satan’s whip and do not see this desirable and delightful way in Christ. May we who have light, walk in the light; perhaps then our light could shine for some who desire to glorify their Creator in the day of visitation.

God be praised for salvation! Christ our Lord be praised for the church and for what we have learned and heard.