LAW WITHOUT PENALTIES

LAW WITHOUT PENALTIES

“Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.” Rom. 4:15

The Law of God, defined by the Bible itself, calls it the written Mosaic Law, including the entire Pentateuch. Cf. Gal. 3:10; Matt. 5:17; Luke 24:44; Acts 28:23; Gen. 3:16 with 1 Cor. 14:34; Exod. 20:17 with Rom. 7:7; Lev. 19:18 with Luke 10:26-28; Num. 28:10 with Matt. 12:5; Deut. 25:4 with 1 Cor. 9:9.

And occasionally Law refers to the whole Old Testament. Cf.  John 10:34 with Psalm 82:6; 1 Cor. 14:21 with Isa. 28:11-12.

The one law of God carries as an integral part of it the appropriate penalties or sanctions to enforce its demands.

Cf. Gal. 3:10 “For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.”

Rom. 4:15 “Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.”

1 Cor. 3:7 “But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:”

Rom. 8:2 “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”

            A law without a penalty is just good advice, you can take it or leave it. To emasculate the law of its penalties, and to call it: law, is a serious misnomer, can only confuse the minds of men, and finally bring all law into contempt or indifference, whether human or divine law. In the long run, such a procedure may even empty Calvary of its deepest meaning.

Cf. 1950 Indiana passed a Daylight savings Law. But you didn’t need to change the clock for they never placed a penalty for it. So it was just good advice.

Today we see those in the highest offices not abiding by passed laws and they have the TV set passing on this lawlessness to the next generations. Calvary will not be robbed!!!