23RD AUGUST, 2021
PASTOR OLUBI JOHNSON
JOB AND SPIRITUAL LAW
Job 42:10 (KJV)
And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
It is vital to understand that most of the problems we have today are caused by sins, not of commission of breaking moral law, but rather by sins of omission, by ignorance or negligence of spiritual law. This is what happened in the life of Job.
Moral, ceremonial and spiritual laws are three types of laws that pertain to our worship of God.
1. Moral law: has been written in the hearts or conscience of all men by God. It was formally summarized in the Ten Commandments given by God to Moses (Rom. 2:14-15; 13:8-10).
2. Ceremonial Law: includes physical ceremonies or activities used in the worship of God and characterized by the elaborate animal sacrifices and rituals in the Old Testament (Heb. 9:9-10).
Water baptism and taking communion are the only ceremonial laws we have in the New Testament.
3. Spiritual law: the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. This involves using the Word of God in prayer to release spiritual forces to create and enforce God’s will.
As New Testament believers, we are no longer under the ceremonial laws of Moses. However, we are still under moral law, which we can automatically fulfil by keeping the law of divine love, using the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
Job was morally upright and kept moral law by natural human ability, like many good men on the earth do today, even without being born-again (Rom. 2:14-15).
However, in spite of his physical good works that were wonderful and commendable, Job lacked the knowledge of spiritual law. This created a loophole of fear in his life that Satan could have exploited to kill him (Job 3:25).
God must have tried to speak to Job to keep spiritual law, but Job did not perceive it because of spiritual pride: the confidence he had in his moral uprightness and his good works (Job 29: 1-25, 33:14-17).
When this was revealed to Job, he repented and immediately started keeping spiritual law by praying for his friends and not just complaining and justifying his moral uprightness as he had been doing previously (Job 42:1-6).
So, today we are to diligently keep the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus to perfect or develop the love of God in us, and so cast out fear and Satan will not be able to touch us (1Jn. 2:5).
1 John 5:18 NJKV
We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.
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