Afacts Tract (100/pack): The Law of Liberty by Amazing Facts

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An Amazing Fact: The U.S. Tax Code is more than a million words long—enough to fill a 2,650-page book and more than the number of words in the King James Bible. It would take the average reader 60 hours to read the entire tax law.

God’s simple yet profound law, the Ten Commandments, has endured throughout the ages. At just over three hundred words, these life-giving rules from heaven have influenced many earthly governments but are still easy enough for a child to understand.

Yet, God’s law has been misunderstood by many well-meaning people, including Christians. Are the Ten Commandments still binding on people today? Doesn't the Bible say that Jesus abolished them when He was here on the earth?

Before we discover what the Bible really says about God’s law, let’s read the Ten Commandments for ourselves. They are found in Exodus 20: 3–17.

1. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
3. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.

Here are 5 biblical facts about the Ten Commandments:

1. God wrote the Ten Commandment's

The Bible says, "He [God] gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone written with the finger of God. … Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets" (Exodus 31:18; 32:16).

Moses did not write the Ten Commandments—they are not mere manmade rules; instead, Scripture reveals that they are written by God Himself.

2. God's law is a guide for a happy life.

The Bible says, "Happy is he who keeps he law" (Proverbs 29:18). "By the law is knowledge of sin" (Romans 3:20).

God created us to experience peace and joy. His law is like a road map that points out the right path to follow and which path to avoid. That the Ten Commandments point out sin is not bad; they help us to know right from wrong so that we are protected from danger, tragedy, and suffering.

3. Jesus did not abolish God's law.

The Bible says, "Do not think that I [Jesus] came to destroy the Law. … I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. … Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled" (Matthew 5:17, 18).

Far from doing away with the Ten Commandments, Jesus magnified them (Isaiah 42:21) as the perfect guide for holy living. 

4. You cannot be saved by keeping the law.

The Bible says, "By the deeds of the law not flesh will be justified in His sight" (Romans 3:20). "By grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast" (Ephesians 2: 8, 9). 

You cannot be saved by keeping the law. Rather, the law is designed to point out the sin in our lives. Just as a mirror reveals dirt on your face but cannot clean you, so also, cleansing from sin comes only through Christ. Yet, "faith without words is dead" (James 2:20); so while we are not saved by keeping the law, our faith in Christ is revealed when we keep His law (vv. 14–26).

5. God's law and Moses' law are not the same.

The law of Moses contained the ceremonial rules of the Old Covenant, regulating the priesthood and temple sacrifices and rituals. The Ten Commandments were located in the Ark of the Covenant; by contrast, Moses' law was located on the side of the ark (Deuteronomy 10:5; 31:26). This law was added "till the Seed should come"—that Seed being Christ (Galatians 3:16, 19). Moses' law pointed to Christ and His sacrifice. When Jesus died, this law came to an end.

By contrast, the Ten Commandments (God's law) "stand fast forever" (Psalm 111:8). The devil hates those who obey these commandments. "The dragon [the devil] was enraged with the woman [church], and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God" (Revelation 12:17). God's law, like God Himself, will never change (Matthew 5:18; Malachi 3:6).

Will you restore God's law to its rightful place in your heart and life?