In Part 3 on God’s law I concluded with the need for us to remember that God wasn’t on some power trip when He gave us his laws. He just loves us too much for us to be separated from him. He did what was needed in order to restore us to Him, to forgive us for every sin we’ll ever commit. We’ll now conclude with how God’s laws, both written and moral, protect the human race.

In general, God’s laws both written and moral protect the human race. We all benefit from them. Would you want people to be free to do as they please to you such as: lie to you, murder you, steal from you, hate you, commit adultery with your wife or husband etc. with no penalty whatsoever? No. We all like what the law does for us, here. We cling to God’s laws when they protect and benefit us and others have to adhere to them, but we tend to reject them when they become personally inconvenient and we also have to adhere to them.

The reality is this: We will have to live under someone’s moral code whether we like it or not. Another reality: It’s impossible to live in a vacuum – that is, a state of nothingness – having no laws at all, be that a moral or written code. Something will get sucked into the place of the code you’re replacing. Name me one country that has no governing morality, be it good or bad. Someone’s morality is governing your country, and if that’s not God’s, whose is it? Look around at countries today. Take a look at their laws and you’ll find out whose moral code they’re following, derived from the written code they’ve laid down as mentioned in the first part of this series. The latest trend now is to separate God from all Government – to separate church and state. Sadly, there are steps that have been taken and are being taken to accomplish this. Those advocating this think they are being more “fair” to everyone, and that no person’s morality should be imposed upon another. The truth about Christianity though, is that it is not our morality we uphold; it’s God’s. The more we try to separate God from our Government, the farther we’ll fall. The morality we’ll be following will be decided by those in power and their moral conscience will become the governing body over us. Remember too, that these are the people you and I have elected. Ultimately we all share the responsibility and consequences of their decisions, if we’ve put them in power.

Imagine if you will a group of people at the top of our Government who believe in euthanasia, which is the act or practice of killing somebody who has an incurable illness or injury, or of assisting that person to die. Currently euthanasia is illegal in most countries. We’ve already said it’s okay to kill the unborn. What’s next? Ending the lives of those who are a burden on or no longer contribute to society? The unborn, the very old or the incapacitated? Who determines who lives and dies? There are those who promote euthanasia. If the group at the top does, backed by the majority vote of people who don’t acknowledge the value of all life, they may attempt to bring in their solution to a population crisis as the world becomes more and more crowded. Their morality may become the umbrella governing your country. Is that what we really want? For our moral umbrella to be in the hands of mere man?

Just look at our horrific track record. The inhumane injustices that have been done to people by people governed by their sense of what was right and wrong is ghastly and appalling: Here is the “top” 10 of 2009: Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe allows unemployment and inflation to run rampant; Omar Al-bshir of Darfur Sudan continues to promote a hotbed of violence; Kim Jong-Il of North Korea runs the world’s most repressive regime; Than Shwe of Myanmar delayed access to aid after devastation; King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has a regime that has the most oppressed women in the world; Hu Jintao of China controls all media and represses religion; Sayyid Ali Khamenei of Iran actually has officials carry out public hangings and permits execution of juveniles; Isayas Afewerki of Eritrea has no national elections and controls the media; G. Berdymuhammedov of Turkmenistan restricts religion and represses the media, and reports of torture are common in Libya’s Government run by Muammar al-Qaddafi. And this is what we hear of. I’m afraid of that which we don’t hear of. This is 2009. What about Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and the like?

In light of these can we not see the inherent danger to gradually separating God from our government? Almighty God in charge or at least acknowledged is the safest, because he values human life above all – and He is not man that can sin. God is always the same as he has been: He values you and me so much He sent his only Son to die to fulfill his own wrath, just so we could be in right relationship with him. He only has the welfare of man collectively at heart, and is utterly beyond reproach, fair and just – in all things. Plus, He’s left us his Book of Laws, His Word for our scrutiny, perusal and implementation which is the whole world’s No. 1 Best Seller of all time! Surely this tells us something.

Point: If we or our government reject God and his moral code, his handbook for living – the Bible, we reject it as the authority in our life. Our own morality is now our authority. Think about it, Christian and non-Christian: Do we really want to live in a world where God’s laws are not observed as paramount? Do we realize what that would mean? Actually, we are fast approaching that on many levels as you can see in the “top 10? 2009 list. There was a reporter who went around asking random people what they thought were the two biggest ills in society today. A well-dressed businessman was approached and asked. He responded with: “I don’t know, and I don’t care.” The reporter said: “You’re absolutely right. Those are the two biggest ills in society today.” It begins with me, and me alone. It is we who vote. We need to uphold a Godly moral conscience and convey to our leaders we’ll settle for nothing less from them either.

God’s law is what makes us sinners; God’s grace is what enables us to be forgiven, for breaking’ the laws of God. God has made restoration available to you as simply and as easily as he could for you, although it cost him everything.

“Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having been made a curse for us. He redeemed us so that the blessings of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit” Gal. 3:13

God’s Holy Spirit has written his laws on our hearts. He lives inside of us and empowers us to keep them. For our benefit, and the benefit of all our posterity.