Creation Ordinances

What is life all about? Life is about living unto God’s glory. We do so by living according to His definition of righteousness. God gave us His definition of righteousness in the Garden of Eden and that definition has never changed. That definition is best understood by studying the Creation Ordinances.

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The Law of God was given to Adam and Eve in the Garden. God’s moral law is eternal and binding upon mankind forever. It was restated and clarified to Noah, again to Moses, and again to the New Covenant church through Jesus. God’s moral law is the standard by which God judges righteousness; a standard of which we all have fallen short. Thankfully, Jesus fulfilled the Law of God for us and imputes His righteousness to us when we trust in Him. Through Adam we all died, but through the Second Adam, Jesus Christ, believers live. Indeed, by God’s grace a believer is accepted into heaven based on the righteousness of Jesus. Until then, a believer is empowered by Christ to live according to Law of God.

Listen to the sermons listed above to understand the Creation Ordinances, which are the earliest commands of God that revealed His law of righteousness. Throughout the Bible these laws were repeated and explained such as in the giving of the Ten Commandments and in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.

Previously...

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