In the sermon 'The Law of God #1', Pastor Grant Brown emphasizes the dire consequences of rejecting God's law, attributing moral and societal decline to this rejection. He argues that society has embraced a depraved standard, leading to chaos and confusion, and has replaced God's unchanging law with human-made standards. Pastor Brown stresses the interconnectedness of God's law and the gospel, arguing that without the law, the notion of sin and the need for the gospel are lost. He highlights Psalm 19 as a key text in understanding the role of God's law, illustrating how the law reveals sin, leads sinners to Christ, and guides believers in righteous living. The sermon calls for a return to God's law, which Pastor Brown describes as a delight and a source of wisdom and happiness, and outlines a plan to explore this further in future teachings.

How is it that you can live in a land where men can enter women's restrooms and people applaud them? How is it that you can live among the people where the statement that homosexuality is wrong and that homosexual marriage isn't really marriage at all? How is it that you can live among the people that label those statements hate speech? How is it that the moment you oppose godless and Marxist organizations like BLM, how is it that the moment that you oppose those kinds of groups that you're called racist by anyone and everyone in the media. How is it that when you preach or you teach or proclaim that the glory of womanhood is distinct from the glory of manhood and that God made woman and man differently with distinct mandates and distinct creational differences.

How is it that the moment you say that God made women to be something gloriously distinct from what God made men to be, that you're immediately branded a misogynist, a woman hater. How do you get there in a society? How is it that civil magistrates in our land will tell you to mask up, get vaccinated, and stop going to church, and stop worshipping God, and cover up your faces under the guise of, well, that's what it looks like to love your neighbor. While at the same time encouraging and promoting the wholesale slaughter of unborn babies in the womb. So much for love for neighbor.

How is it that love for neighbor gets to be defined so upside down. How is it that state and federal rulers can be so confused and call what is evil righteous and what is righteous evil, how does that happen? From tranny madness to homosexual mirage to feminism to demanding the right to murder children in the womb, how do you get there as a nation? How do you get there as a culture? How do you get there as a people?

How do you get there even as a church? Well, here's how you get there. You reject the law of God. Here's how you get there. You embrace the opposite of Psalm 19.

The law of the Lord is not perfect. His testimony, his precepts are not sure, you'll say. They are not right. The commandments of the Lord are not pure. They are not more desirable than gold.

There is no reward in keeping them. No, God's law is not good. God's law is not a delight. But my law is. That's how you get there.

When you say I'm the standard, I'm the master of my life, I'm the Lord, I'm the one who gets to define what is true. I make the law. That's how you get there. When a nation, when a people, when a society, when even the church gives up the truth about God and His law and exchanges the truth about God for a lie and worships the creature rather than the Creator. You get there when you exchange the unchanging, perfect, and sure, and right, and clean, and true law of God that could be the delight and the refreshment of your soul.

And you exchange it for a poison of your own making. So that you live in a world where everyone in their total depravity does what is right in their own eyes. So that it is the standard of depraved men. Depraved men reject God's law, they make themselves the standard instead, which means that it is a depraved standard that rules the law of the land. It is a depraved standard that rules the law of the home.

It is a depraved standard that can even rule the church when God's law is rejected. So that's why you can have Supreme Court hearings. Those who are to know the law, those who are to interpret the law, those who are to make rulings based on the law as the chief instructors of the law when it comes to civil society. But because the standard comes from a people depraved and not from the thrice holy God, because there is no longer the fear of God in man, but instead man's inventions become the law. That's why you can have hearings at the Supreme Court.

That's why you can have hearings at the Supreme Court. That's why you can have hearings of the legislator Where those who are the highest authority on justice and law in the land can't even tell you what a woman is They can't even tell you what a person is They can't even tell you who God is. When you reject the law of God, you get insanity. That's what you get. That's what happens when you give up the law of God.

When you reject the law of God, you know what else you lose? You don't just lose your sanity, you lose the gospel. It's the gospel that transforms sinners into saints. Dead and depraved men are born again into new creations in Jesus Christ. But if you reject the law, what do you reject?

You reject the notion of sin. What do you need the gospel of Jesus Christ for? When there is no standard that shows that you're guilty. What do you need the power of God or the salvation if you don't have the law? No law, no gospel.

No gospel, death. No law, no gospel. No gospel, death in the home, death in society, and death in the church. Do you think you need the law of God? If you reject the law of God, all you're left with is chaos.

You really need to understand this, brothers and sisters. You can have God, you can have Jesus Christ and his law, or you can reject his law and his gospel. The two are tied together and you can get chaos. So you can have Christ, you can have chaos, you can have Christ or craziness, You can have the law of the Lord, or lunacy. You can have his standard, or the world's stupidity.

There's a lot of alliteration going on there. The law or lunacy, his standard, or the world's stupidity. You need the law of the Lord. You need His law. Your home needs God's law.

Your town, your city, this state needs God's law. Our nation, your nation needs the law of the Lord. And so because of that, because everywhere in the Bible we're going to be spending the next several months recovering together and repenting together when necessary The law of God and the ways in which we have not listened and obeyed his law. We're going to spend the next several months, Lord willing, seeking to understand how God's law tells us how we're to live and the ways in which his law shows us how to be the most happy and the ways in which his law shows us how to be the most happy and the ways in which his law far from being a burden is to be what Psalm 19 declares it to be a delight Something precious and sweet it is a gift to not a got to We're going to see that the law of God shows us our need for Christ. You are going to see how the law of God restrains wickedness in society.

And you are going to see how the law of God guides and instructs us in how we are to live as those who love King Jesus. That's what we're going to see in Psalm 19, so let me repeat it. You know the three keys of learning? Repetition, repetition, repetition. So here we go.

Number one, Psalm 19, the law of God shows us our need for Christ. Number two, it demonstrates how we are to live as those who love that same Christ. And number three, It restrains wickedness in the land. That's what we're going to see from Psalm 19 If you love King Jesus if we love the King of Kings King Jesus and we do amen We do then we will love the law of that team And we will say what the psalmist David. I love thy law it is sweeter than the honey on a honeycomb to my lips and to my heart And my prayer has been and it will be that God would grant us such hearts and minds as we behold his law that we would come out of here every Lord's day and every day of the week, I love the law of my King.

So let us begin. Our text is Psalm 19. We didn't read it, but Psalm 19 begins with the heavens. And the heavens are declaring the glory of God. Day and night the heavens are declaring the glory of God.

The sun, all of creation, is declaring the glory and the wisdom and the mind of God. This is what we call God's general revelation. General revelation. So that hymn, this is my Father's world, I rest me in the thought of rocks and trees of skies and seize his hand the wonders wrought. They declare the maker's praise.

That's what's going on in Psalm 19, 1-6. God is speaking through His creation. Psalm 19 tells us that He does this day after day after day. God declares in the firmament and God declares on the earth His glory and he declares it in such a way that it's a universal language. Every man that has eyes walks out of his front door.

He sees the sunrise, he sees the sunset, he sees the moon in the sky, he sees the birds of, birds in the trees, he sees all of creation, and it declares to him in a universal language from China to America to Africa to even Antarctica, God declares, I am eternal in power and divine in nature. I am God and I am glorious and my greatness is unsearchable. That's creation. Psalm 19 verses 1 through 6. How God communicates His glory through general revelation.

And yet, As loud as creation is in displaying and proclaiming the glory and the splendor and the majesty of Almighty God, it is but a whisper in comparison to the Word of God that you hold in your hands right now. This is a better word. This is a better proclamation. This is special revelation. In fact, we are to understand general revelation, and we interpret general revelation of creation in light of this special revelation.

God speaks through creation, and we understand what he says out there through what he says right here. So Psalm 19 is all about God speaking. God speaks, yes, out there in creation, yes, but only in ways that leave men condemned. Out there, it is enough to condemn you. But in verses 7 through 11, God also speaks specially right here in ways that call men out of their sins and saves them from their sins and then tells them how they are to live no longer in sin.

Let me say that again. In God's law, He calls men out of their sin, He saves them in their sin, and then He brings them back to his law to show them how to live no longer in sin. This is what he does in God's Word. This is what God does in his Word. And in the Word of God, we have God's law.

It reveals sin, and it leads sinners to Christ. In God's Word we have God's gospel saving men from sin through faith in Jesus Christ and then we have Jesus Christ leading those same sinners whom he saved back to his law so that they know how to live. And that is how Psalm 19 begins with verse seven. In verse seven of Psalm 19, this verse begins in describing the law of God as something that restores the soul. Look there with me in the first half of verse 7.

Psalm 19 verse 7, the law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul. Now the King James Version, the authorized version, says it this way, the law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul. The law of the Lord is perfect Restoring or converting the soul. And this is the first use of God's law. The law of God leads sinners to Christ in conversion.

When you read verse 7, the law of the Lord is perfect, restoring or converting the soul, is that something that you expect to read? Is that something that you expect to read? What do you expect God to say when he's talking about restoring or converting the soul. Well, I don't know about you, but maybe you're like me. First time that I read this, I expected that verse to go something like this.

It's going to talk about converting the soul. Here's how I think. In my mind, it was going to go. The gospel of God, the gospel of Jesus Christ converts the soul. The gospel of the Lord restores the soul.

But is that what the psalmist writes? No, God says the law of the Lord Restores and converts the soul So does the law convert or does the gospel convert Does the law restore the soul Or does the gospel restore the soul? What's the answer? Yes! Without the law, you have no gospel.

Without the law, there is no knowledge of sin. Romans 3 verse 20. Through the law comes the knowledge of sin. Through the law comes the knowledge of sin. So without the law of God there is no law breaking.

Without the law, there is no original sin in the garden. Without God's law, there is no first sin of Adam, and therefore there is no fall and no curse. And so, apart from the law, there is then no need for the good news of a Savior who will be all that Adam was not who will obey all that you have not obeyed who will satisfy the demands of God's wrath towards your law breaking on his cross You don't have any gospel apart from the law of Almighty God. Friends, the law of God leads you to the gospel of Jesus Christ, and then Jesus Christ in the gospel leads you back to his law to show you how to live the law and the gospel are friends they are not at odds beloved beloved I know some of you in this room have believed that they are at odds. Believe that no more.

They are friends. They are deposed to one another. I mean, I have often heard Dear saints, dear saints who have been confused about the law and the gospel, and so they say things like, well, pastor, how do you reconcile the law of the Lord and the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ? How do you reconcile law and gospel? Well the Spurgeon liked to say, oh, you don't reconcile friends.

There's no need to reconcile friends. They're not opposed to each other. So church, you are not to think of the passages in the Bible that deal with the law of God as bad passages, and then you turn the page and you see passages that deal with the gospel, well those are the good passages. No, no, no, no. All scripture is good and right and profitable.

All scripture is inspired by God and you need it all from Genesis to Revelation. There are not bad passages dealing with the law and good passages dealing with the gospel. You're not supposed to think that the law passages in the Bible are opposed to the gospel passages and the gospel passages are opposed to the law passages. No, no. They work hand in hand.

God has joined them together. Get this friends, the law and the gospel together, verse 7, convert the soul. The law and the gospel are friends restoring the soul. Brothers and sisters what God has joined together law and gospel let no man put a son what God is going together let no man put a son so Christian just as you love the gospel of Jesus Christ? Do you do?

Well, we do. You must love the law of that same Christ. You must be able to say with David in Psalm 119, I love your law. I love your law. Why?

Why do I love your law? Because it leads me to my Savior. And then my Savior leads me back to that same law to show me how to live for Him. Oh, I love it. We are to obey the words of Jesus.

If you love me, you will keep my commandments. You will keep my law. If you love the gospel, and you do, Christian, then you must love the law of God. So what does the law do? Well, the law of God converts the soul.

How? By leading sinners to the Savior Jesus Christ. And I just want to be sure that you see it and you hear it in the scriptures. So we've already mentioned Romans 320. Through the law comes knowledge of sin.

But you also need to know things like Romans 7.7 where Paul says, and I quote, I would not have come to know sin except through the law. I wouldn't know my sin except through the law. And then again in Romans 4.14 where there is no law, there is no violation. You need the law of God to see your sin to see your need for the Savior and So the law of God is like a mirror. Have you ever heard that illustration before?

The law of God is like a mirror. What do you do and what do you see when you look into a mirror? Children, When you look into a mirror, what do you see? Yourself, good job. Yourself.

And I can tell you what I see, especially in the morning. Open up that bathroom door, turn the lights, I see a yikes. That's what I see. I saw that this morning. That's...

You... Poor people! Poor people. You've been there before? Just me.

That is precisely how the scripture describes one of the uses of God's law for you. The law is a mirror that shows you who you really are apart from the work of Christ. God's law is like a mirror that reveals to you the truth that you really have sinned and fallen short to the glory of God You can see that in the mirror the law you see yourself for who you are And I plan to talk about this much more next time But the law of God is summed up by the Ten Commandments, and if you are to examine yourself in front of the mirror of God's Ten Commandments, what would you see? If you begin with commandment number one and you end with commandment number ten, You would end up seeing in the mirror of God's law that you are a law breaker ten out of ten. You have not obeyed the law of God, you have not kept the law of God, you have broken the law of God, and therefore you are a law breaker, a sinner who has fallen short of the glory of God.

You're guilty, you'd see in the mirror of God's law, you're covered in sin, and you'd see yourself as you truly are a sinner in need of salvation. That's part of what the law of God does. It shows you your sin. John Calvin, in his institute, said it this way, The law is like a mirror. In that mirror, we contemplate our weakness, then the iniquity arising from this, and finally the curse coming from both.

Just as a mirror shows us the spots on our face through the law of knowledge of sin. But the law doesn't merely reveal sin. Praise God. God does not simply condemn through the law. He does do that.

You stand condemned as a law breaker. But hallelujah, God also saves. God also converts the soul. And as His law reveals to you your sin, His law, by His Almighty grace, by His sovereign grace, His law takes you by the hand as you see your desperate need for the Savior, and it brings you to the Savior who has fulfilled that law in your place. It leads you to Christ.

I want you to see that this morning, claiming for yourselves. And so Keep your finger in Psalm 19, but turn with me in your Bibles to Galatians chapter 3. Galatians chapter 3. Galatians chapter 3 beginning in verse 23. I want you to see this for yourselves.

Beginning in Galatians 3.23 and 24, But Before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith, which was later to be revealed. Verse 24. Therefore, the law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith. What did the law do before the coming of Jesus Christ? It kept the people of God in custody.

You could say a lot about that but here's one of the things it did in keeping them in custody. It showed them their need for the Savior who was promised to come. So that in verse 24 when that Savior came the law became a tutor that led the Israel of God, that's you, Christian, to Jesus Christ. The law of God became a tutor to lead you to Christ so that you may be justified by faith. That's verse 24.

Now that word there in verse 24, tutor, tutor, that is the Greek word, pedagogos, or some people call it this way, pedagogus. It means tutor. And in the Roman culture, a pedagogus, a tutor, was a slave that took children and brought them to school. For a child to get from his house to the schoolteacher, the pedagogist would take that child and be his chaperone. He would be in custody of that child until he brought them to the teacher.

And so Paul, no doubt, as he's writing the book of Galatians, is seeing that play out probably before his very eyes, watching children being taken by their pedagogues, by their tutors, from their households to the school teachers. And so he uses it as a perfect illustration of what the law does for the Christian. The law, like a tutor, like a pedagogist, leads the child to Jesus Christ, who is the teacher and the Savior. So put these two ideas together. God's law summed up in the Ten Commandments is like a mirror and a tutor.

It shows you your law breaking and then it leads you to the Savior who has kept that law in your stead. You need to praise God for His law. If He had not given you His law, you would not know, and I would not know, our desperate need for the Savior. You'd be doomed to hell. But thankful, be thankful today for the law of God, for the law of the Lord is perfect.

Psalm 19 tells us it converts the soul. It converts the soul. It restores the soul. I do think it's a bit comical. Calvin, I think quite pastorally, he called the law of God a mirror, right?

It's very helpful. Martin Luther, a different reformer, he was a little bit different than Calvin, and Luther called the law an axe. So you've got Calvin a little more gently, Mir, Luther, no it's an axe. So I have to tell you what Luther said about it. Here's what Luther said, and I quote, As long as a person is not a murderer, adulterer, thief, he would swear that he is righteous.

How is God going to humble such a person except by the law? God's law is the hammer of death, the thunder of hell, and the thunder of God's wrath to bring down the proud and shameless hypocrite. When the law was instituted on Mount Sinai, it was accompanied by lightning, by storms, by the sound of trumpets to tear to pieces that monster called self-righteousness. As long as a person thinks that he is right, he is going to be incomprehensibly proud and presumptuous, and he is going to hate God, He is going to despise God's grace and mercy and ignore all the promises in Christ. The gospel of the free forgiveness of sins through Christ will never appeal to the self-righteous.

This monster of self-righteousness, this stiff-necked beast, needs a big axe. And that is what the law is. A big axe that slays the monster of self-righteousness. So God saves sinners when His law cuts them down. And on their knees, they cry out with the publican in Luke 18, God, be merciful to me, a sinner.

And God save them in His Son Jesus. Friend, today, If you're here for the first time, or you're hearing for the first time, and you're recognizing for the first time, you've been cut to the quick in your soul by the law of God, and you see your need for the Savior Jesus, repent and believe. Children, repent and believe. And the law of God will have its converting effect upon you. Believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved.

Come and speak to your pastors. Come and speak to your parents. Come to the waters of baptism and receive the covenant sign so that you would receive this covenant sign every Lord's Day. I want that so badly for you children. Theme music.

Believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall be saved. And then that same Lord Jesus Christ, who saves you, who converts you, will bring you back to his law to show you how you are to live. The God who saves you instructs you how you are to live as one saint. And this is the second use of God's law. The law of God is the rule by which Christians live.

The law of God rules those saved by Christ. It instructs. The law of God is the rule of life for men and women who are in covenant with Almighty God. And we see this in Psalm 19 in the second half of verse 7. If you're at this point in the sermon you're thinking, man, he is only still on verse 7.

I'm not going to get through the whole psalm today. Look at verse 7 One more time. The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. Did You see that second line there?

The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. Is that still talking about God's law? Or did the psalm switch? The testimony of the Lord. What's that word testimony mean?

Well, for your sake and mine, I did some research. And that word there for testimony is the same word that God uses, it's the exact same Hebrew word that God uses to describe the Ten Commandments that are placed in the Ark of the Covenant in the book of Exodus multiple times. Let me give you one. Exodus 31 verse 18, when God had finished speaking with Moses upon Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone written by the finger of God. Exodus 31 18.

Those are the Ten Commandments. Those are the Ten Commandments. So you need to get this. The covenant people of God were given God's law as a testimony to their belonging to God. As a testimony to God's covenant with them.

Here is how you are to live as God's covenant people. Is put into the ark. This is covenantal stuff. If you belong to God, you obey His law. From Genesis to Revelation, that includes you.

The Ten Commandments are given to you today Christian in the same way they were given to the old covenant people then You are in the same covenant today. You are in the covenant with Almighty God. Here is how you are to live as God's covenant people through faith in Jesus Christ. So children, Children, when your parents tell you, here's how you're to live as a member of our household. When your father sits you down and says, I've got to lay the law down here.

When your mother and father sit with you and they tell you, here's how you're to live as a member of the Brown household. Here's your how you're going to live and the member of the Sala household. Fill in the blank. Here are the rules of this household. Do you know why they do that children?

Why do they do that? When your father says, here's the law of this household, he does that because he loves you. He does that because you belong to him. When you receive the law of your household, that is an indication that you belong to God, that you belong to your household. And God does this in far better ways.

When your parents do this, they're showing you what God is like. Because When God saves you, He gives you His law to live by. And that is God saying to you, when you hear God's law, and it leads you to Christ, and you repent and believe in Christ, and Christ then leads you back to God's law. When you hear the law of God as a covenant member, here is what God is saying to you. These laws are given to my covenant people.

To all who have been saved by grace through faith in my Son. And these laws are for you. For all who call upon the name of the Lord. This is God saying to you, these are the laws of my household. These are the laws of the people that are mine.

So children, the next time you hear your parents talk about the rules of the house, or the law of the house, which has imitated the law of God, you should rejoice and be glad because you belong to that household. And you should rejoice and be glad because God has given you His law, His testimony to obey. And that is a sign. That is a sign that you belong to this covenant people that God would give you his law So parents who love their children They give them rules They also discipline their children When those laws and those rules are broken. And parents who love their children, give them the law because they want their children to be happy and to be secure.

In a better way, God declares, and God gives to you his children, brothers and sisters, he gives to you the rule of his law because he loves you, because he wants you to thrive. And he promises to lead you in the way everlasting by making you wise, by making wise the simple through his testimony. That's verse 7 of Psalm 19. That's the second use of God's law. Not only does it lead you to Christ to be saved, but that Jesus Christ leads you back to his law in the Ten Commandments to say, This is what that salvation looks like fleshed out.

So that wonderful pastor, Puritan pastor John Flavo, or Flavo, depending on your pronunciation. Here's how he said it. This is from a Puritan. The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and that Christ sends us to the law to be regulated. And if you think, well hey, that's an old Puritan, he didn't know any better, that's a really silly thing to say.

But If you're going to say it, well, here is a modern day Puritan who just went home to glory. If you can't say amen to him, he's going to have to say ouch. Here's how Bodhi Bakam put it. You need the law of God, For it is the law of God that shows you what you're saved from, and then it is the law of God that shows you what you are saved to do. The law of God is the rule of life of the covenant people of God.

Turn with me to one final Bible passage this morning. We'll plan, Lord willing, to finish Psalm 19 next Lord's Day. But turn with me to Ephesians chapter 2. Ephesians Ephesians chapter 2. Ephesians chapter 2.

I think many of you probably know the first half of this chapter very well. Here's how it goes. You're dead in your sin. You're hopeless in and of yourself. But despite that, but God, God broke through your hopelessness.

And his son saved you by his grace alone through faith alone Jesus Christ alone saved you this was nothing that you did no amount of law keeping no amount of rule keeping got you saved. No, no, it was the grace of God. It was trusting in the only man who ever kept the law of God perfectly in your place. It was the God man, Jesus Christ. So for by grace you've been saved through faith, this is not of yourself, it is a gift of Almighty God not of any work that you've done you don't get to boast about anything that you did in the salvation except for the sin you brought that's verses one through nine the Ephesians 2 and those verses are glorious are they not You were dead and God made you alive, God saved you.

And then verse 10, you were saved by the grace of God for what reason? Why did he do verses 1 through 9? For what reason? Verse 10. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

You are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand so that you would walk in them. You were not saved by good works, Christian. You were not saved by good works, Christian. You were not saved by good works, but only by the grace of God. But this same God who saves you now tells you here in Ephesians 2, I saved you to what end?

I saved you to the end of good works. I saved you that you would glorify me. How were you saved? Not by your good works, but by the good work of God. But if you are saved and you are in Jesus Christ if you belong to Jesus that same God who saved you now gives you good works to be about so the question needs to be who gets to define what those good works are How do you define what those good works are?

You've been saved to do. Who gets to define them? What's the answer? God does. So here it is.

The Christian cries out, God saved me. Jesus died for me. He made me born again. I didn't deserve a shred of the treatment that I'm receiving from Almighty God. It is just sheer sovereign free grace.

He made me into a new creation. He made me born again. Oh how I wish, oh how I long to live for His glory. That's the cry of the Christian, isn't it? And so the cry of the Christian could continue.

I wish if only the same God who saved me, if only that same God who gave me his law so that I saw my sin and I ran to Christ, if only That same God would give me a testimony on how I could live for Him, on how I should live for Him. If only God had given me instruction on the good works that He would have me do. Oh, Christian, He has. He has. For the law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul.

The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing to heart. The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. The judgments of the Lord are true, they are righteous altogether.

They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than the honey and the drippings of the honeycomb moreover by then your servant is warned and in keeping them there is great reward The law of God is a delight. And I am delighted to spend the next several months with you studying it. Let's pray together. Almighty God, we thank you for this your law. Make us into a people that love it, and cry out with David, Oh, how I love thy law.

Lord, make us a people that view your law and not at all in contradiction or in opposition to your gospel but as friends indeed like a sweet sweeter than the honey on honeycomb by them we are warned and by them we live. Thank you for your law, thank you for your gospel. We praise you and Thank you.