Building on the Foundation

  The psalmist prayed to the Lord, “Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day” (Psa. 119:97). Again, “I hate and abhor lying, but I love Your law” (Psa. 119:163). And again, “Great peace have those who love Your law, and nothing causes them to stumble” (Psa. 119:165). Psalm 1 describes a righteous man thus: “His delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night” (Psa. 1:2). King David wrote, “I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart” (Psa. 40:8). It’s safe to say that mainstream Christianity views God’s law much differently than King David and the other psalmists did! Those men loved God’s law; Christians hate it. Mainstream Protestants declare God’s law to be abolished. Null and void. As Psalm 119 laments, “It is time for You to act, O LORD, for they have regarded Your law as void” (Psa. 119:126). Many professing Christians will tell you that God’s law is a burden. But the apostle John wrote, “For this is the love o

  Do you, as a Christian, consider God to be the ultimate authority? Do you consider the Bible to be His written Word and therefore, likewise, the ultimate authority? Does your church? Does your church base all its doctrines, to the best of its knowledge, on God’s Word? Or does it instead follow the traditions of men? Worse yet, does it follow pagan traditions masquerading as Christian ones? God’s Word says, “Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it” (Deut. 12:32). Jesus Christ spoke to the religious leaders of His day, quoting Isaiah the prophet, “In vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men” (Mat. 15:9). Has very much changed from that day to this? Given the differing doctrines and the many disagreements among the churches out there in this world, it logically follows that they can’t all be right. Most of them must be “teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.” This shouldn’t surprise anyone, for Je