If God’s Law is bondage, why does the godly person delight in it?
If God’s Law is bondage, how is it called liberty?
If God’s Law is bondage, is loving God bondage?
Interestingly, love is the purpose of the Law.
It was because of love that God saves individuals.
It is because believers love God, that they keep His commandments.
- But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night. - Psalm 1:2
- Praise the LORD. How blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments. - Psalm 112:1
- For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man: - Romans 7:22
If God’s Law is bondage, how is it called liberty?
- So I will keep Your law continually, Forever and ever. And I will walk at liberty, For I seek Your precepts. - Psalm 119:44-45
- But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. - James 1:25
If God’s Law is bondage, is loving God bondage?
- If you love me, you will keep my commandments. - John 14:15
- For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome. - 1 John 5:3
Interestingly, love is the purpose of the Law.
- Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law? And He said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. - Matthew 22:36-40
It was because of love that God saves individuals.
- Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, - 2 Thessalonians 2:16
It is because believers love God, that they keep His commandments.
- By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments. - 1 John 5:2
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