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Adult Bible Study Guide
Jan • Feb • Mar 2012
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Glimpses of Our God
Contents
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The Triune God
In the Beginning
God as Redeemer
The God of Grace and Judgment
The Holiness of God
God the Lawgiver
Lord of the Sabbath
Creation Care
The Bible and History
The Promise of Prayer
God as Artist
Love Stories
The Promise of His Return
Glimpses of Our God
Our Goal {5}
How grateful we should be for
every bit of light He casts our way.
We’ll look at some of that light.
How faithfully we walk in it, is up to
each of us individually.
Be grateful
Look for light
Wa l k i n i t
Glimpses of Our God
Lesson 6, February 11
God the Lawgiver
God the Lawgiver
Key Text
Isaiah 33:22 NKJV
“For the Lord is our Judge, the
Lord is our Law-giver, the Lord is
our King; He will save us.”
God the Lawgiver
Initial Words {67}
What does God’s law reveal
about God?
When we understand God’s law as a
hedge, a protection, something
created for us, for our own good,
then we come to understand more
about what God is like.
God the Lawgiver
Quick Look
1. The Law Before Sinai
(Genesis 26:4, 5)
2. The Law at Sinai
(Exodus 20:1-3)
3. The Law in the New Covenant
(Hebrews 8:8, 10)
God the Lawgiver
1. The Law Before Sinai
Genesis 26:4, 5 NKJV
“‘And I will make your descendants
multiply as the stars of
heaven…because Abraham obeyed
My voice and kept My charge,
My commandments, My statutes,
and My laws.’”
1. The Law Before Sinai
Evidences of Existence {69}
Genesis 1 and 2 describe God’s
perfect Creation. Genesis 3 records
the fall of Adam and Eve. Genesis 4,
we have the first murder.
How did Cain know he was guilty for
murdering his brother if there were
no law to define murder as sin?
1. The Law Before Sinai
Evidences of Existence {69}
God denounced murder in the
covenant He established with Noah
after the Flood. God commends Job’s
righteousness. A standard of right
and wrong is operating. God rebuked
Abraham for his falsehood. King
Abimelech, not Israelite, God held
him to the same standard of marital
purity found in the Decalogue.
1. The Law Before Sinai
The Sabbath {70}
Pharaoh’s response: “You make them
rest from their labor” (Exo 5:5 NKJV).
The verb Pharaoh uses is built on the
word for “Sabbath.”
The striking language of Pharaoh
reads like this, “You make them
sabbath from their labor!”
1. The Law Before Sinai
The Sabbath {70}
God miraculously provides manna
for Israel in the wilderness.
“How long do you refuse to keep My
commandments and My laws?”
(Exo 16:28 NKJV), clearly indicates
that God’s laws existed before the
revelation at Sinai, and that among
those was the seventh-day Sabbath.
God the Lawgiver
2. The Law at Sinai
Exodus 20:18 NKJV
“Now all the people witnesses the
thunderings, the lightning flashes,
the sound of the trumpet, and the
mountain smoking;
And when the people saw it, they
trembled and stood afar off.”
2. The Law at Sinai
Why So Terrifying? {68}
Right from the beginning of Israel’s
covenantal relationship with God,
we can see a revelation of the
gospel in the law.
The law was never meant to be a
means of salvation, even at Sinai;
rather, it was to show the people
their need of salvation.
2. The Law at Sinai
Why So Terrifying? {68}
It was right after the giving of the
law that they were given
instructions to build the sanctuary,
which revealed to them the plan of
salvation.
The law was to point people to the
Cross, to their need of atonement
and Redemption.
2. The Law at Sinai
The Law and the Prophets {71}
Although Israel loved the law, those
who understood the law’s function
never saw it as a means of salvation.
The Hebrew religion had always been
a religion of grace, even though the
people went from one extreme to the
other: from trampling the law openly
and blatantly, to extreme legalism.
2. The Law at Sinai
The Law and the Prophets {71}
They loved the “truth” as it was
revealed to them and as they best
grasped it.
A love of a set of guidelines and
principles that, if kept, would have
opened the way for many blessings
and promises, because all that God
had given them was for their own
good and well-being.
God the Lawgiver
3. The Law in the New Covenant
Hebrews 8:8, 10 NKJV
“‘Behold, … I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel… I
will put my laws in their mind and
write them on their hearts;
and I will be their God, and they
shall be My people.’”
3. The Law in the New Covenant
Linked to Love {72}
From the start, the principles of the
Ten Commandments were given to
humanity out of the Lord’s love for
people. The law has always been
intended to be a blessing.
You obey the law, and you are
protected from sin; you disobey,
and you face the consequences of
transgression.
3. The Law in the New Covenant
Linked to Love {72}
Love transcends the law, in the sense
that onelove
who truly
loves God and
negates
others reveals the ultimate
the
law?
principles of the law. But this is no
excuse for negating the law.
On the contrary, love fulfills the law;
love is the law expressed in its
purest form.
The Desire of Ages 466
Final Words {73}
“The only condition upon which the
freedom of man is possible is that of
becoming one with Christ. ‘The truth
shall make you free;’ and Christ is
the truth…. Subjection to God is
restoration to one’s self,—to the true
glory and dignity of man. The divine
law, to which we are brought into
subjection, is ‘the law of liberty.’”