Sunday Morning: July 18, 1999
Text: Matthew 7:6 "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs (fig.), neither cast ye your pearls (fig.)before swine (fig.), lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you."
2 Peter 2:21 "For it had been better for them not to have known the way of [the] righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy [the] commandment delivered unto them."
Romans 7:12 "Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy [adjective], and just, and good."
1. Given by the Father - John 12:49
2. The Life - John 12:50
3. The way of the righteousness - 2 Peter 2:21
4. Believe / Love in the present tense- 1 John 3:23
5. Faith - Romans 4:11
John 12:49-50 "&ldots; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50. And I know that his [the] commandment is life everlasting: &ldots;"
2 Peter 2:21 "For it had been better for them not to have known [epignwskw)] the way of [the] righteousness, than, after they have known [epignwskw)] it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."
Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after [the] righteousness: for they shall be filled."
Matthew 6:33 "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his [the] righteousness [of him]; and all these things shall be added unto you."
Romans 3:21-22 "But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22. Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe [present active]: for there is no difference:"
Romans 1:7 "To all
that be [present active participle] in Rome, beloved [adjective]
of God, called [adjective] to be
saints [adjective]: &ldots;"
Romans 4:5 "But to him that worketh [present active participle] not, but believeth [present active participle] on him that justifieth [present active participle] the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness."
Romans 4:11 "And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe [present active], though they be not circumcised; that [the] righteousness might be imputed unto them also:"
Romans 4:13 "For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith."
Romans 10:3-4, 6 "For they being ignorant of God's [the] righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 4. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth [present active participle]." "6. But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, &ldots;"
Romans 10:9-10 "That if thou shalt confess (present active v. 10) with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe (present active in v. 10) in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
1 Peter 1:7-9 "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8. Whom having not seen, ye love [present active]; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing [present active], ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9. Receiving the end of your faith (v. 7, at the appearing), even the salvation of your souls."
10. For with the heart man believeth [present active] unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession [present active] is made unto salvation."
1 John 3:23 "And this is his [the] commandment, That we should believe [present active subjunctive] on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and [should] love [present active subjunctive] one another, as he gave us commandment."
Romans 7:12-13 "Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good."
2 Corinthians 3:6-10 "Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life (holy commandment). 7. But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8. How shall not the ministration of the spirit (that gives life) be rather glorious? 9. For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of [the] righteousness (that is by faith) exceed in glory. 10. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth."