The Law

We looked at Genesis as a study in faith and I mentioned that this is part of a process that God was using to 'set the world to rights.' The next part of the History of the Redemption is that of the Law. There are three steps to God's making us holy again. The first is embodied in the Law. The Law is the tool God used to teach his children to be obedient. This is the way we always learn and that's why God makes Scripture that way. The story of the world mirrors our lives. When children are born, they are selfish. One of the first words they learn is no and that is the essence of the disobedience that got us into trouble to begin with. So first parents just teach their children to be obedient. Obedience is the key to righteousness. The Law also begins to set them off as the people of God and to make them act differently from everyone else. So, the Law teaches us to be obedient. I'll focus in on Exodus next.