GOD'S GOVERNMENT LAWS VERSES MAN'S GOVERNMENT LAWS
In the beginning of this world, God created His way of government. He gave the first man and woman
one law after He created the 7th day Sabbath. He gave mankind the law of choice. He gave them the right to
choose obeying Him or to choose the way of making their own decisions, to choose what is good or to choose
evil.
While in the garden, along came Satan to deceive the first couple by telling them a lie. Lies have been
the downfall of man since their beginning! "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which
the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the
garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit
of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest
ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat
thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil" (Gen 3:1-5). This caused
Eve to doubt God. Eve choose to follow Satan's lie and talked Adam into believing it also!
"And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from
the LORD. And she [Eve] again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of
the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto
the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had
respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very
wroth, and his countenance fell" (Gen 4:1-5). Cain choose to kill Abel because of jealousy. Abel's offering was
more acceptable then Cain's because it was Abel's first fruit offering of a lamb. Cain's was just an offering, not
a first fruit! No mention here of Cain's first fruits
In the third and fourth chapters of Genesis we have seen seven of God's commandments dis-obeyed!
First, we saw Satan telling a lie and Eve doing as he said and breaking the 9th Commandment by coveting the
fruit of the tree of good and evil. Adam and Eve choose to dis-obey God by choosing the "tree of good and evil,"
not honoring their Father- 5th Commandment and also the 10th Commandment, thou shall not covet and the 8th
Commandment- thou shall not steal. She also broke the 1st Commandment by putting Satan's word before
God's. Cain broke the 8th Commandment by not bringing the first fruit of his crop-stealing the first fruit tithe.
Then we read of the murder of Abel by Cain-breaking the 6th Commandment!
God's law has always been a law of love. Love God first and love your fellow men as yourself- second.
These are the two great laws of love. Love has always been the way of God. "And shewing mercy unto
thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments" (Exod 20:6). "And thou shalt love the LORD
thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command
thee this day, shall be in thine heart" (Deut 6:5-6).
God's law is summed up in the both the Old and New Testaments. The Old Testament gives us the law,
statutes and judgments. The New Testament gives us the way of love and how to live it with our neighbors.
"Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets" (Matt 22:37-40). This also is an Old
Testament law. "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD" (Lev 19:18).
These laws of God are the foundation of all that can make a person happy, productive and prosperous.
The law of tithing makes it equal for each person to pay their fair share of support of the government. If we
followed God's Word we would not have to have thousands of pages of tax laws from man's government! Each
person would pay ten percent of their income for running the government. Ten percent for Holy Day vacation
pay and ten percent each third year in seven for supporting the elderly, poor and needy. No hardship from
following God's tithing laws! Man's government take away the incentive to work hard by taking an unfair share
in taxes. According to God's word, if a man does not work, he should not eat! "For even when we were with
you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some
which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command
and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread" (2 Th 3:10-12).
Today, this country is teaching people to be on welfare rolls and not to get out and work. Every person has to
be taught to work. We now have 43 million people on food stamps. The government is advertising to have more
people get food stamps! This is not teaching personal responsibility, on learning how to work. It's amazing that
most people on welfare have at least two flat screen TV's, air conditioning in the home and receive more on
welfare payments then some worker in minimum wage jobs. By time you add up all their welfare benefits, it
easier to be on welfare then to work. It is now being told that welfare is now about $60,000 per welfare person
a year! Not that they receive that much, it's the bureaucratic government worker that absorbs the cost! There
is more then one government department that does the same thing!
By following God's Ten Commandments we could do away with most of the government departments,
because we would be following the way of God's Kingdom here on earth. We would not need the thousand and
millions of regulation that cause most of the problems in the countries of this world. Regulations are killing our
economy! Men need to work, not more of man's government controlled hand outs!
God's way of love for our fellow-man would bring the peace that all of mankind desires. Each would
have equity and justice. We would have the law of love to take away the jealousy that divides people. What we
now see is class warfare going on! Causing people to feel cheated!
We are seeing the murder of innocent people. If justice was carried out swiftly, we would not see our
prisons full. Those who committed crime would be deterred because punishment would happen swiftly! A
murderer should be punished right away! God's word says, "Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die:
he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer,
when he meeteth him" (Num 35:21). "He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. And
if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine
altar, that he may die. And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. And he that
stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death" (Exod 21:12-16).
Man's law lets murders and kidnappers stay on death roll for over 20 years.
If we had one religion that is founded on the law of love for God the Father, Jesus the Christ, His Son,
it would be a one world religion based on the sacrifice of Jesus the Christ, who paid the penalty of all sins.
Man's way today is to follow any religion that attracts them. This, God said was wrong! In the 1st
Commandment, "God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me" (Exo 20:1-3). "And
in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither
let it be heard out of thy mouth" (Exo 23:13). We can see the way of man today is to choose the way of many
religions! We have forgotten where our calling and blessings come from.
We are admonished by God's Word to: "Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the
LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. Keep therefore and
do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these
statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so great,
who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon Him for? And
what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you
this day? Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have
seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons" (Deut
4:5-9).
Once again this will be the choice for each one of us to make. Will we obey God the Father and Christ
our Savior, or will we choice the way of man's government and laws?
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