Moral Government of God by Harry Conn, Lecture 10 Part 1

Lecture 10 is more on the Law of God. The law of God doesn't come from his will, but from his mind. The law is based upon the nature of things--natural law. The "Fundamentalists" have made void God's law by their traditions. Harry Conn looks at Ezra 7:10, PS 1, PS 19, PS 119. All God's commands have a priciple or "why" behind them.

Preach the law of God:
1.) How right it is
2.) How reasonable
3.) How practicable
4.) The fitness of it
5.) The universality of it (made for all men)

The law is for the greatest good of the greatest number of people.
Where there is no truth about God, the people perish.

More on inability. Finney said, "To talk of inability is to talk nonsense."
"Who so keepeth the Law is a wise son." Those who are truly saved, keep the law without grinding at it or even thinking about it.

We're no longer under the regulations of the law but rather under a relationship--of grace. If the relationship is right, you are under grace.

1 John 5:3. God's commandments are not burdensome. Jesus said his "yoke is easy and his burden is light."

1 Timothy 1:5 Now the end (or goal) of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned."

Obeying God out of love for God. The "reason" or the "why" we obey God is called the motive: "Why we do the things we do and who we do them for."

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