Can You Hate Law and Order and Have the Credibility to Talk About God?

It is really something when I hear of people who say they hate laws but they can talk about God, quote Scripture and you can name it but it's all cherry picking.  The Bible is very clear about this- you CANNOT love God and hate His Law!  The Law is what holds authority figures accountable for the evil they do, the Law is what punishes the civilian for evil that they do- it's the Law!  For them the laws are repressive and non-beneficial, that a country where it is lax with its laws is better, that it's better to trust criminals than the police, etc. kind of nonsense.  This is rather the heresy of Antinomianism because being saved means you now love God's Law, you are fulfilling the Law of God and because you are saved, you love God and EVERYTHING associated with Him as a result of being saved.  What does the Bible say?

In the Psalms, David has mentioned about loving the law, the love for lawfulness.  Psalm 1:2, 40:8, 119:70-73, Psalm 119:92 and Psalm 119:174 all declare David's love for the Law and the benefit for loving the Law of God.  Psalm 1:2 says that the delight of the blessed man in God is the Law of God which he meditates upon it day and night.  Psalm 40:8 has David delighting to do God's will.  Psalm 119:70-73 declare that the Law of God is better than anything and that by affliction, David learned God's statues.  Psalm 119:92 declares that unless God's Law was his delight, he would have perished.  Psalm 119:174 gain David dictates the love of the Law!

The Law itself is what shows us our lawlessness.  Romans 3 itself pretty much summarizes the Gospel of sin and the Savior.  Romans 3:19 declares that all men must shut up before the holy, righteous God.  We read in verse 10 up to 18 before 19 of man's fallen state.  Romans 3:23 declares we are all but fallen of God's grace.  Galatians 3:24-25 has the Law is the schoolmaster that teaches people to be unto Christ. The late Martin Luther called the Law of God as a mirror that shows our sin, a hammer that shatters our self-righteousness and a whip that drives us to the cross.  James 2:10-11 declares that the Law shows our imperfections.  The Law was made because of sin and it is the very thing that exposes sin.  Christians will love the Law because it is what brought them to Christ and it's impossible to talk about God without the Law.  That is the problem of today's Gospel preaching.

In Romans 3:31 we read, "Do we then make void the Law through faith?  God forbid!  Yeah we establish the Law!"  Baptist pastor the late John Gill commented on this matter saying and here's an excerpt I am putting from his exposition, "The Law was not made void neither by the grace nor doctrine of faith: not by the grace of faith for that faith is not right which is not attended with works of righteousness and those works are not right which do not flow from faith.  Such a connection there is between faith and works and so much do the one depend upon the other.  Moreover, none but believers are capable of performing good works aright and they do them and they ought to do them: besides faith as a grace, looks to Christ as the end of the law for righteousness and therefore do not make it void."  

In Romans 7:22 we read, "For I delight in the Law of God after the inward man."  According to the late Dr. Matthew Henry he wrote, "The more pure and holy the heart is, it will have the more quick feeling as to the sin that remains in it.  The believer sees more of the beauty of holiness and the excellence of the Law.  His earnest desires to obey, increase as he grows in grace.  But the whole good on which his will is fully bent; he does not do; sin ever springing up in him through remaining corruption, he often does evil though against the fixed determination of his will." and "For as the believer is under grace, and his will is for the way of the Law of God, and in the holiness which it demands, according to his inward man; the new man in him which after God is created is true holiness." 

I could really remember the number of times Pastor Ray Comfort had dictated some Psalms about the Law of God in his evangelism lessons.  In "True and False Conversion", "Hell's Best Kept Secret" and "Revival's Golden Key" all courtesy of Living Waters, Kirk Cameron mentions the hard truth that unless people are presented with the Law, they cannot really see true repentance.  Pastor Paul David Washer of Heartcry Missionary had stressed that while salvation cannot be by works, however true works are manifest in salvation and that you cannot have salvation yet no change and no fruit.  The idea of a fruitless Christian is heresy at best and unfortunately, that's creeping in our churches faster than one can imagine.  In emphasis, I did remember Pastor John Macarthur's book "The Gospel According to Jesus" where he actually presented the fact that salvation is not just once saved, always saved- only those who continue in God's holiness apart from everything else are the only ones who have true eternal security.  Being eternally secure does not grant license to sin, rather it actually manifests when a person in the end, endures for Christ.

We can think of Ephesians 2:8-10- saved by grace and made unto good works.  Good works in the life of the believer are by the grace of God.  When he read Titus 2:11-14, we read God's saving grace is not just saving, it changes lives.  It makes the believer live soberly, righteously and different from the rest of the world.  One might consider that one of the many marks of false conversion can also be indifference to good works and a love for sin.  How can anybody claim to be saved of Christ if they hate law and order?  Surely they can oppose misuse of the Law but not Law itself.  Again, we beg to differ with how lawless salvation heresy is spreading and how many times the Lordship of Christ is being kept away in the shelf by most modernists.