God has written
His law upon the hearts of every person.
Long before Jeremiah ever prophesied that God would do away with the written law and write
His law upon our hearts and minds, Moses had said the same thing (cf. Deut 30:6, 14).
Not exact matches
«But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my
law within them, and 1 will write it
upon their
hearts» [Jer.
A real and sustained effort was made to reconstruct the whole social order
upon the basis of the
Law of God, not only by giving it statutory force, but by «writing it on the
heart», so far as this could be done by positive instruction and through the ordinances of public worship.
is simply too ingrained, too much a part of what sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office of Religion to protest against the sophistry of Satan, and to preserve the memory of those truths which the unbelieving
heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility of man, the sovereignty of the Creator, the supremacy of the
law of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be made
upon our conduct and character.»
Today as i was thinking about Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he made a decision.This idea came from your other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to make a judgement call he is sovereign and it shows his tender
heart and mercy that not a single person was afflicted.The pigs unlike men have no soul so have no eternal consequence
upon them they live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the
Laws of God even even when we do nt know or understand his
laws.brentnz
Traditions of every kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies of
law and religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds to itself, becoming the collective memory of the human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed
upon all the other edifices of Nature (the only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it is precisely this optical illusion which we have to overcome if our realism is to reach to the
heart of the matter.
This is precisely what Jeremiah recognized when lie promulgated a new covenant in
law written
upon the individual
heart.
This is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my
law within them, and I will write it
upon their
hearts.
«Behold the days are coming when I shall make a new covenant with the House of Israel... I will put my
law within them, and write it
upon their
hearts, and I will be their God and they shall be my people... for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.»
Before Moses died, he prophesied that his
law would pass away and would be replaced with the
law of God written
upon men's
hearts (Deut 30:6 - 20).
Criticism may smile indulgently at the palpable deception in the claim that this was given to Moses at Sinai along with the Torah, but if we would read the meaning of figurative language, it is apparent that this was but an expression of the sense of a pervasive natural
law: the religious impulse and revelation with which the name of Moses was associated was too great to embody itself in written form — not even the Torah was adequate; but it reposed ultimately in the divine impress
upon the
heart of man.
Unfortunately, I found my
heart was in the non-profit section and
upon graduating from
law school I found a absolutely fantastic job at Starfire Council of Greater Cincinnati.
Dave has been called
upon from Shanghai to New York City, from the Yukon to deep in the
heart of Argentina by
law firms and legal associations to address personal productivity, change management, technology implementation, career satisfaction, leadership development and the emerging discipline: online dispute resolution.
After four years in the Midwest, his
heart begged him to return to Montana and
upon graduating from Valparaiso, Brad began his legal studies at the University of Montana School of
Law.
«At the
heart of any notion of a decent society is not only that we have rights and protections under the
law but that we can enforce those rights and rely
upon those protections if needed,»» the radical lawyer went on to say.