Scripture Reading: Exo. 20:1-17; 34:28; Psa. 19:7; Rom. 7:14; 2 Tim. 3:16; John 5:39-40
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The law as the testimony of God, the expression of God, is the revelation of who God is—Exo. 31:18; Psa. 19:7; Exo. 25:21-22; 38:21; Exo. 20:4; Gen. 1:26:
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A law is always a revelation of what kind of person has enacted that law.
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God regards the ten commandments, the ten laws, as ten words (Exo. 34:28; 20:1)—a further indication that the law is a revelation of God Himself, since the words a person speaks are a revelation of that person:
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God is jealous—Exo. 20:4-6.
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God is holy—vv. 8-11.
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God is loving—vv. 12-14, 6.
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God is righteous—v. 5.
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God is truthful—v. 16.
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God is pure—vv. 2-3, 17; Col. 3:5.
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The law exposes man, subdues man, and guards God's chosen people to conduct them to Christ, the reality of God's testimony—Rom. 5:13, 20; 3:19; Gal. 3:23-24:
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The law is a type of Christ as God's testimony, the One who describes God and expresses Him in a full and adequate way—John 1:18.
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As the law is the ten words of God which reveal God to His people, so Christ is the Word of God revealing God to us—vv. 1, 14.
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We should not try to keep the law from without but let Christ live Himself out from within so that we may become the testimony of God, the expansion and enlargement of God's expression—Rom. 8:4.
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The law is the living word of God to infuse His substance into His loving seekers to make them His testimony for the fulfillment of His eternal economy:
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The law is spiritual, the same in essence, nature, and substance as God, who is Spirit—Rom. 7:14; John 4:24.
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The law as God's ten words are His breath to convey His element into the ones who receive His words—2 Tim. 3:16:
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Christ Himself is God's real and living law, the Word of God, the breath of God, the expression of God.
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By pray-reading the Word, we breathe God's element into us, being infused with what God is to cause us to live Christ and become the living expression of God, His living law—Eph. 6:17-18.
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The highest and most intrinsic function of the law as God's word is to impart God's substance into us to make us one with God, the same as God in life, nature, and expression but not in the Godhead:
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While Moses was receiving the law from God, he was being infused with the element of God to cause him to glow with God—Exo. 34:32-35.
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When we are infused with God's substance through His word, we become what He is, and His divine attributes are expressed in our human virtues.
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We keep the requirements of the law not by our own efforts but with what has been infused into us of the Lord through our contact with Him; once we have been thoroughly infused with God's substance, He Himself from within us will keep His own law.
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There are two kinds of people dealing with the law—the loving seekers of God and the letter-keepers of the law—cf. Gen. 2:9; 2 Cor. 3:6, 15-16:
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The psalmists were the loving seekers of God, loving the law as the testimony of God and as His living word:
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They loved God—Psa. 18:1; 73:25; 116:1.
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They sought God—42:1-2; 43:4; 119:2, 10.
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They dwelt with God—27:4; 84:1-7; 90:1.
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They beheld His beauty—27:4.
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They were infused with the riches of God—52:8; 92:13-14,10.
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The enjoyed the riches of life—Psa. 36:8-9.
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They were supplied with God to keep His word—119:57.
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They treasured the law of God—vv. 14, 72, 127.
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They tasted the sweetness of the law—v. 103.
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They hoped in the word of God and dwelt on it—vv. 147-148.
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The Judaizers, the legal and dogmatic letter-keepers of the law, did not have a heart for God but a heart for the killing letter of the law, seeking the law apart from God—Matt. 15:8; Gal. 6:12-13.
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By being infused with God's substance through His living word, we become the true worshippers of God, those who are according to what God is, who correspond to what God is, and who reflect what God is for His glory—John 4:24; 5:39-40; 2 Cor. 3:18.
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The highest profession on earth is to spend time being infused with God that we may shine forth God; this accomplishes the eternal economy of God to work Himself into man that He may have His testimony, His enlarged and expanded expression.