Episode 231: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 197

Episode Summary:

But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: (Deuteronomy 28:15)

21 Now, we took this text out of Deuteronomy. It’s a Greek word which has a compound meanings, or, it means, “two laws.” The Greek word, Deuteronomy, means “two different laws.”

And that’s just what God has, two different laws. And one of them is a law of death, and the other one is a law of Life. God has two laws. To follow Him, and serve Him and worship Him, is Life; to reject It is death. There is two laws in God.

22 Now, one of those laws was recog-…made recognized to the world, at Mount Sinai. God gave the law to Moses and Israel. Not that the law could help them, but the law only pointed out to them that they were sinners. Until that time, they didn’t know what sin was, till they had a law. There cannot be a law without a penalty. A law is not a law, without penalty. So, therefore, “The transgression of the law is sin, and the wages of sin is death.” So therefore, until God made them a law, there was no transgression reckoned to them.

If there’s no law here that says you can’t run over twenty miles an hour, then you could run over twenty miles an hour. But when there’s a law says you can’t do it, then there’s a law and a penalty behind it.

23 Now, death, the law of death, was the commandments given on Mount Sinai, which told man that he was a sinner. And, to transgress God’s law, he died. But there’s no salvation in the law. The…It was only a policeman that could put you in jail; it had nothing to bring you out with.

But then He gave another law, that was at Mount Calvary, where sin was reckoned in Jesus Christ, and there the penalty was paid. And not with…Without law, “but by grace you are saved,” by the grace of God, through predestination of God’s foreknowledge of your being.

24 Now we see these two laws, Deuteronomy, speaking of two laws. There was two laws. One was the law of death, and the other one the law of Life.

25 There was also two covenants give to the people. We’re going to speak of them in the morning.

One of them was given to Adam on condition, “if you do this and don’t do that,” but that law was broken. Adam, Eve broke that, in the garden of Eden.

Then God made the second covenant, and give that to Abraham, and that law was unconditional. “It isn’t what you’ve done or what you will do;” He said, “I have already done it.” That’s grace. That’s the law of Life. God did that for Abraham and his Seed after him, that’s, all of Abraham’s Seed.

As the Bible said, “All Israel will be saved,” but that don’t mean Jews. As Paul said, “That Israel which is inward, or Israel outward.” “Outward,” as we spoke of the other night, it was Isaac’s children, by sex. But the law of God was through Christ, which was Abraham’s Royal Seed, that, “by grace all Israel is saved.” That’s, “All that’s in Christ is saved,” all, God’s second covenant. But all these things foreshadowed Christ.

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Rev. William Marrion Branham

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