So there's a lot of confusion, even among Christians today, about 'What law do we keep?' 'Which laws were nailed to the cross?' And 'How do Christians relate to the Ten Commandments without being legalists?' And then there's that question: 'Is obedience legalism?' interesting question - sort of a rhetorical question. So some people think that the law of Jesus in the New Testament is different from the law of the Ten Commandments in the Old Testament. It's talking about Jesus, and He's the one who's responsible for giving us the law. Some have got pictures of Moses in the their mind - he's writing the law - but you read, in the gospel of John, 'All things that were made were made by Him.' Who is that? Now, where did the Ten Commandments come from? We always picture, you know, Moses up on top in the mountains there. It is written by the Lord - by His own finger. God put His word - the Ten Commandments - on two tables of stone. Now, the title of the series is the Law of the Lamb because Jesus is God the Son, amen? So tonight we have a very important program and it's dealing with the subject of the law of God. Join me now, friends, as we consider the relevance of God's law in our lives today. Jesus said God's law boils down to two crucial principles: love for God and love for our fellow man. Yet the Lord was able to summarize the entire duty of man to God in just ten simple precepts that contain about 325 words. and if a person could review them at a rate of about two a day, you'd be qualified to act as a law-abiding citizen in about 6,000 years. Did you know it's against the law to doze off under a hair dryer in Florida? To play hopscotch on Sunday in Missouri? To hunt camels in Arizona? To insert a penny in your ear in Hawaii? To tie a giraffe to a telephone pole in Atlanta? To catch mice without a license in Cleveland? To put a skunk in your boss' desk in Michigan? To detonate a nuclear weapon within Chico, California city limits, which carries a punishment of $500.00? To bathe less than once a year in Kentucky? To pawn your dentures in Las Vegas? Yes, there are about two million laws in the U.S.
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