God's Judgment and the Law
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. Rom 2:20
Paul listed four of these: Here an instructor (paideutēn, “one who disciplines, a trainer”) of the foolish, and a teacher of infants. As we saw before, this belief by Jews rested in their having in the Law the embodiment (morphōsin, “outline, semblance”; used elsewhere in the NT only in 2Tim. 3:5) of knowledge and truth (the Gr. has the definite article “the” with both nouns: “the knowledge and the truth”).
Again
we see, Their
form of religion was just that, a form. This was a technical keeping
of the law without any understanding of what the law really stood
for. Because they possessed the law, the Jews were confident that
they were spiritually superior teachers; guides to blind pagans, wise
in God’s ways, and able to teach babes.
This is like memorizing a bunch of words without any idea of what they meant. There is no purpose in memorizing, unless you know what the meaning of the Scripture is. God is not pleased with us technically keeping His laws. He wants our love and obedience.
The Light of God is something you can not turn on and off. If you have the Light, it shines in your life not just one day a week. If you feel you have got to go to church, you probably don’t have the Light. It should be a joy for a Christian to go to church. Church should not be an obligation that you fulfill. To go to church should be the desire of your heart.
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