Old Testament Law To New Testament Love

Old Testament Law to New Testament Love

Well, how about we cover the entire bible today? You know, … cover to cover. We’ve got the time don’t we? We have the attention span for that right?? Genesis to Revelation. “In the beginning” to “Amen”. How about it.

No? Ok. But we are gonna get to that, you’ll see.

Today I want to start off by asking you how many of you know that it is great to live in the New Testament era? Next I want to ask you all to sum up the Old Testament in just a few words. If there was any prevailing theme of the whole Old Testament, what is it?? Anyone?

I would like to suggest that we collectively identify the Old Testament as God’s Law. Can anyone argue that its not? Believe me I am open to discussion. But just know that I’m not gonna change the title of the message for it. 😊

The Old Testament is collectively about following God’s law. Let’s look at the very beginning. How do we start this all off?

From the amplified version, and I have a reason for that.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God ([a]Elohim) [b]created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.

Now let’s look specifically at the Hebrew word for “created”. The Hebrew word bara is used here to indicate that God specifically BEGAN CREATING FROM NOTHING. So, how did God do this?

Short answer…… I don’t know, because only God can create from nothing.

Most of you all know that I’m a Drug dealer (Pharmacist..HAHA!) by day, and only occasionally chaplain or speaker up here. And now we are off on an epic rabbit chase! But seriously….. as a doctor of Pharmacy, I have a lot of science under my belt. Can we at least agree on that part?

Ok, well with all of that science, we can still only CREATE (really is more like just rearranging things) from WHAT ALREADY EXISTS.

Now down in Genesis 1:27 when God starts to create Adam, the Hebrew here indicates that he formed him from EXISTING matter, from the dust of the Earth that He had already created out of nothing. So short version, WE rearrange. That’s what we do today. We rearrange what we already have, mix it, heat it, grind it up, separate the good stuff from the bad, we might stir it, or even just let it sit and mix for a while. BUT…. Do we ever create from nothing??? NO, we DON’T!

So, if any of you all know about science stuff, we have all these rules that must be followed. Anyone want to tell me what those rules are called? …. They are called Laws. We have Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion, The Laws of Thermodynamics, Boyle’s Gas Law, Hooke’s Law of elasticity, Kepler’s 3 Laws of planetary motion, Newton’s law of Gravity, but my favorite is this one ….. The Law of conservation of Mass/Matter & Energy. Simply put Matter and Energy are neither created nor destroyed in any process. They may be converted from one form to another, transform to higher or lower energy levels, or even be displaced from one location to another. But, they never come from nothing and they can never be destroyed completely by any known method.

So, why is this my favorite? Because only God has ever created something from nothing. And the science people that want to argue science over God have a fundamental flaw from the VERY BEGINNING. Their own “Laws” say that matter is neither created nor destroyed. Well doesn’t that actually prove God’s existence? I’ll let yall chew on that one. And feel free to use it on that “science person” or that “I need proof person”.

So back to my original train of thought. What was God doing in the very beginning? Back to our Hebrew word…. He was creating out of NOTHING. God was creating all those “little-L” laws that we know and follow today.

Before we get the 10 commandments…. And lets be honest… How many of you thought that’s where we were going to start today when I said God and Law??? Gotcha didn’t I? Don’t worry, I’m headed there. But before we get the 10 commandments, we have God creating out of nothing all of these Laws that honestly, us mere humans are only recently discovering. Considering that man has been on the planet for about 6000 years, the last 100 to 500 years is pretty recent. But look at how far we have come in just the last 50 years! Wow! That’s prophecy being fulfilled by the way.

Daniel 12:4- "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased".