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Open your Bibles to Exodus 20:8-11.
•We are continuing our study of the doctrine of the Christian
Sabbath.
•Today our focus will be on the Sabbath command (Fourth
Commandment) as Moral Law.
Now, before we begin, I think that I need to define some
terms:
1.
What is a Moral Law?
•A Moral Law is an eternally binding law that has it’s origin in
the righteous character of God.
•A Moral Law is a law that is binding on all men at all times,
regardless of what covenant they live under, because God’s
righteous character never changes.
•Sometimes Moral Law is called Natural Law.
•And it’s called that because Moral Law can be deduced from
the light of nature and human reason.
•That is, we have an instinct about right and wrong and just a
little thought on those things will lead us to understand what is
good and evil.
Some Examples of Natural/Moral Law:
•It is manifestly clear that it is wrong to murder people.
To take
someone’s life without cause is a bad thing.
We don’t want that
done to us, so we ought not do it to others.
And we would cease
to exist as a human race if everyone murdered everyone else.
•It’s manifestly clear that murder is morally wrong.
•Likewise, since we know that God exists, it is wrong to refuse
to worship Him or to think that we can simply choose for
ourselves how we will worship Him.
He is God and ought to be
worshipped.
And since He is the One being worshiped, we
ought to ask Him how we should do it in order to please Him.
•Likewise, since God exists, we know that it is wrong to be
disrespectful toward Him.
Since He is our Maker, we ought to
have the highest respect and reverence for Him and His
awesome wisdom and power.
Again, Moral Law is eternally binding Law for all men at all
times.
•And the basic principles of the Moral Law are revealed by the
light of nature and human reason.
•They are self-evident truths for people made in the Image of
God.
2. Another definition: What is a Positive Law?
•Positive Laws are those laws given by God that are not
intrinsically moral.
•Positive Laws cannot be known from the light of nature and
human reason, but must be POSITIVELY given by God to
human beings or we would never know to obey them or how to
obey them.
•Now, once God gives a Positive Law, it becomes morally
binding on whoever He gives it to, because God is God and
ought to be obeyed.
•But, nevertheless, Positive Laws are not inherently moral.
•And, because they are not inherently moral, they are subject
to change or be abolished altogether, as God deems fit and
commands.
•God can put them into effect.
And God can take them away or
alter them as He chooses, when He chooses, unlike the
unchangeable Moral Law.
Examples of Positive Laws:
•The Ceremonial Laws of the OT were Positive Laws.
•The laws about cleanliness and washing and dietary
restrictions were all Positive Laws.
•The laws about sacrifices and who could offer them and
where and how were all Positive Laws.
•Likewise, the Civil Laws of the OT were Positive Laws.
The
punishments in Israel for breaking the law were Positive.
•These laws could not be known to anyone by nature.
God had
to reveal them through prophets and then they were put into
effect and became binding to the Jews.
•And those laws were abolished when Christ established the
New Covenant in His death.
•Those laws could go away at a certain point in time because
they were NOT INTRINSICALLY MORAL.
Some other Positive Laws:
•The command to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil was a Positive Law.
•There was nothing inherently immoral about eating the fruit of
that tree.
It was simply fruit!
But once God positively gave the
command forbidding Adam and Eve from eating, the law
became binding.
•Likewise, the command to be baptized is a Positive Law.
You
would never know that God wanted you to do that, without God
telling you in His Word.
And one day, at the end of time, baptism
will cease.
•Likewise, the command to take bread and wine, bless it, and
eat it in remembrance of Christ is a Positive Law.
We would
never know to do that without God telling us.
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