8/17/05 & 8/21/05 - “When Grace Becomes Disgrace– Part 2”
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Hello!  This is Richard Vaughn

Today’s subject – “When Grace Becomes Disgrace– Part 2”

Before we begin today’s program, shall we reverently seek God’s presence. Heavenly Father we ask for divine guidance as we open the word and continue to study this subject of Your grace and how modern Christians unaware, have turned it into disgrace. In Jesus name Amen.

I continue to keep my pledge to lift up my voice like a trumpet and to show God’s people where they are going against God’s Will.

Last week we quoted 4 sets of scriptures regarding the law and found that on one side it appeared that the Ten Commandments were done away with, while on the other side the Ten Commandments appeared to be in force, binding and established. We ended the broadcast with the following:
When asked which of the Ten Commandments still apply to us today,
Billy Graham replied, “The Ten Commandments are never out-of-date. They express the unchanging will of God in our lives, regardless of changes in society.” He then goes on to say that the first four deal with our relationship to God, while the others deal with our relationship with people. Then stating, “Our lives would be happier if we followed God’s prescription for sound living.” He said God’s Ten Commandments are never out-of-date. Now Billy Graham has the right answer, but he got it from the Word of God.  He also said, “There are two laws spoken of in the Bible.”  I have found out when Christians get this concept and this truth in their minds, it will change their whole outlook on the Word of God.  
Let’s go to the Bible to really establish these two different laws, so it’s not just Billy Graham’s word, but the Word of God.    
2 Kings 21: 8.  “Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do 
according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”
So notice, God commanded a law, and the Bible says Moses commanded a law.
So let’s look at both of these laws —God’s law and Moses’ law, and see what happened in each one.  Let’s turn first of all to Exodus 31:18.  
 	“And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.” 
Based on that verse.  Who wrote that law?  
God wrote it.   And what did He write it with?  
With His finger.   And what did He write it on?  
On stone.  
As we continue on in the book of Deuteronomy 10:1,2,4,5.   
We’re going to find some more things out about this law.  Here, God gave the original Ten Commandments to Moses, and Moses came down from the mountain.  When he came down there, he saw all the children of Israel had turned to idolatry, and he became angry and took those Ten Commandments and threw them on the ground and broke them in pieces.  So God instructed Moses to go back up on the mountain, and that’s what’s taking place here.  
Deuteronomy 10:1,2,4,5  (Watch the personal pronouns)  “At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me.  
And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me.”
So where was this law placed?  In the ark.   And what was this law called?  The Ten Commandments.  
So now we see God’s law. God wrote it, with His finger, on stone, it was placed in the ark, and it’s called the Ten Commandments. 
Now we will look at Deuteronomy 31:9, and here we’re going to read about Moses’ law, and I want you to see the diametric differences between the two.
The Bible says, “And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and unto all the elders of Israel.” So who wrote this law?  Moses wrote it.   Continuing on in the same chapter Deuteronomy 31:24-26, 
 “And it came to pass, when Moses had made and end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.” So we’re going to pick up some more clues here.  
Go back to verse 24.  It says, “And it came to pass, when Moses had made and end of (what?) writing.”  All right, he did his with writing.  Moses law was hand written. And what did he write it in? 
In a book.  
And where was that book placed? 
In the side of the ark.  
That ark was about 55 inches long, and 33 inches wide.  It had a solid gold lid, and under that lid was where God’s Ten Commandments were.  But also built onto the side of the ark of the covenant, was this little compartment, and that’s where Moses’ law went into.  And what was this law called? Notice verse 26, “Take this (what?) book of  the law.”  
That’s what Moses’ law is called– the book of the law.   
And then notice at the end of verse 26 it says, “that it may be there for a witness (what?) against thee.” All right, against the people.
There we have it.  Let me ask you a question, Did all of these things come straight out of the Bible?   Did we make up any of this?  No.  Then surely you can see very clearly that the Bible teaches there are definitely two laws.  
Notice the diametric differences.  God wrote this one; Moses wrote that one.  God wrote His with His finger; Moses did his with handwriting.  God’s was engraved on stone; Moses’ was written in a book.  God’s was placed in the ark; Moses’ was placed in the side of the ark.  God’s law is called the Ten Commandments; Moses’ is called the book of the law and it was against the people. Very clearly here we see the two laws.
Now let’s get an even better idea of what Moses’ law was all about.  We will look now at the book of Leviticus 23, and you’re going to see why I’m doing all this in just a minute from now.   
Leviticus 23: 5-11, and here we read all about Moses’ law and all the things that you were required to obey in Moses’ law.  “In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord’s passover.”
Passover was something you were required to celebrate in Moses’ law, it was one of those special holy days that you had to take part in. 
Continuing, “And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.   But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.” 
The next thing in Moses’ law you were required to celebrate every year was called the wave sheaf offering. Verse 13, says, “And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, and offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.”  
In Moses’ law, you have all of these meat & drink offerings.  
All that had to be done in Moses’ law.  Then there was something else.  
Verse 24, “Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have (a what?) a sabbath, 
a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.”  
This was known as the feast of the trumpets.  And it was called a sabbath day.  And I want you to notice, annualy it fell on a specific date, so it could come on any day of the week.  It could come on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, because it always fell on a date. This is not to be confused with the seventh day Sabbath of the 4th commandment. This yearly Sabbath happened to be in the seventh month, the first day of the month. That was a sabbath day, you had to keep it holy.  Then in verse 27 you read about another one.  

“Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you.”  
You go on down to verse 32, it says, “It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest.”  In Moses’ law, there were all of these annual ceremonial sabbath days that always fell on specific dates, and you had to keep them holy.  
There was the Feast of the Trumpets, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, The Day of Atonement, the Feast of Tabernacles. That was all in Moses’ ceremonial law. This law was called ceremonial because it dealt with a whole lot of ceremonies.  
Now that we have that background, we can clearly see the difference in these two laws and it gives us the whole answer as to which law we’re reading about in these other texts.
Now let’s go back to Colossians 2:14, and here you’ll begin to see exactly what the Bible is covering. “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing to his cross.” 
Now just by reading that verse, whose law is it talking about?  God’s law or Moses’?  Moses’ law.  
First of all, it says it was the “handwriting.”  Whose law was done with handwriting?  Moses’ law was. “Handwriting of ordinances.” There are no ordinances in the Ten Commandments. Ordinances are, according to the dictionary: “Requirements regarding religious festivals, feasts and sacrificial offerings.”  
Whose law had that in it, God’s or Moses’?  Moses’ law, yes!  It says, “... that was against us.”  Whose law did we specifically read was against the people God’s or Moses’?  Moses’ law.  And it says, “... took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.”  

Be listening next week as we continue studying the awesome truths in God’s word, our subject, “When Grace Becomes Disgrace– Part 3”. 

Until next week, Jesus said in John 5:39, “Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me”. Even so, Come Lord Jesus.