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Published on 07-13-2010 02:18 AM
THE LAWS OF GOD
Bertrand L. Comparet
Tonight I am going to talk to you about the laws of the kingdom of God. That is a subject which the churches have botched up, maybe more than most things, and nearly everything you were taught on this subject in the ordinary churches you can discount as being partly or wholly false, because of the way they have messed it up.
The Bible speaks of four kinds of divine law: the commandments, the judgments, the statutes, and the ordinances. And today's ministers, with rare exception, have no idea that there is any difference between these at all. The commandments are the major rules of conduct for the responsibility of man to his God.
The Ten Commandments in the twentieth chapter of Exodus, of course, are the outstanding examples of this: Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not commit murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, and so forth. And contrary to what a good many of the churches teach, they are still in full effect.
Now the judgments: The use of that word is a bit misleading. Today we understand judgment to mean the decision of a court after it has heard the case, but, as used in the Bible,
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