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8 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course Lesson 30

YOU COULD have a life like that. you DIDN’T KNOW ANYTHING! YOU
Everyone could. This ENTIRE WORLD could WEREN’T even born with instinct as animals
be like that -- if we only UNDERSTOOD THE are.
WAY! That way has to be REVEALED! Animals don’t have to be taught a law to
YEHOVAH GOD reveals that way in know what to do or not to do; they don’t have to
His Guidebook for mankind -- the holy Bible! learn about a law that will show them HOW to be
YEHOVAH God Almighty in His great LOVE happy, and how to AVOID suffering. Animals
for humanity, reveals that He set a LAW in are just dumb brutes which YEHOVAH God has
motion. That law was designed to PRODUCE equipped with INSTINCT. They respond
just that kind of happy life in you! AUTOMATICALLY to this instinct YEHO-
YEHOVAH God is Creator not only of VAH built into their simple brains when He
matter -- solid matter, liquid matter and gaseous originally created them.
matter, as we know it -- but YEHOVAH is also But you and I are vastly different. We are
Creator of FORCE, ENERGY and of EVERY made AFTER YEHOVAH’S IMAGE. Our
POWER and LAW. The laws of physics, the minds possess, to a very limited degree, divine
laws of chemistry -- every law that is in motion characteristics. We were put here as free moral
and is energized. agents for the purpose of PRODUCING
Do you realize that YEHOVAH God CHARACTER -- holy, righteous, spiritual
Almighty also created a SPIRITUAL LAW? character. If we submit to YEHOVAH God and
That spiritual law is what REGULATES YOUR follow His law of love, He will be creating His
HAPPINESS! spiritual character within us.
But most people are NOT living that 2. Did the apostle Paul say that the law --
way. They’re breaking that law, and it has been the Ten Commandments and their principles -- is
breaking them for a long time, because that’s SPIRITUAL? Romans 7:14 .
precisely what happens when you BREAK COMMENT: But Paul said he was
YEHOVAH’S SPIRITUAL LAW! CARNAL. He was fleshly and material. So are
That law is simply LOVE. It’s the WAY we all.
of love. It’s the way that love should be The law is a SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLE,
EXPRESSED -- love toward YEHOVAH God and it REGULATES YOUR HAPPINESS -- a
and love toward neighbor. SPIRITUAL matter. YEHOVAH’s law directs
1. Did Paul say he would not have known and guides you as to what YOU SHOULD do so
what sin is except the law had pointed it out to you can be happy.
him? Romans 7:7. 3. Did Paul say YEHOVAH’s law is sin?
COMMENT: We don’t know what is Romans 7:7. Or did he say the law is HOLY,
right and what is wrong unless YEHOVAH God and the commandment is HOLY, just and good?
REVEALS it. Even the apostle Paul would not Romans 7:12.
have known what sin is if YEHOVAH’s law had COMMENT: That isn’t what we are
not told him. taught today, is it? Many people have been
Human nature will not teach you because reared in the belief that the law is UNHOLY,
human nature is BASICALLY EVIL (Jeremiah harsh and cruel and ALTOGETHER WRONG!
17:9). As Paul says, “I had not known lust.” That That it’s bad for us, and therefore the Messiah
is, he would not have known that lust was wrong had to DO AWAY with it!
or evil; HE DIDN’T HAVE SUCH INSTINC- WHAT A PARADOX! People think
TIVE KNOWLEDGE -- “except the LAW HAD YEHOVAH’s law -- the very thing that points
SAID, thou shalt not covet." the WAY to true happiness -- is WRONG!
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