Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
God’s revelation of Himself:
God made the earth, the heavens, the stars, the animals and man and made Himself known to mankind. Today man tries to eliminate God and all aspects of God in order to appease his conscience, but yet the conscience is one aspect of God’s revelation of His law to man. God has not left man in the dark as to His reality, yet man insists upon trying to ignore God’s truth and the fact that God exists and we are accountable to Him. Through the course of history, God has given us seven fold editions of the law to reveal that law to man.
The seven fold edition of the law:
- Written in nature – God made His sovereignty and power known in all of nature around us (Psa 19:1, 2; 8:3; 33:6=8; Ro 1:19, 20). When a severe storm occurs that causes much damage, often times the insurance companies will call it an act of God, yet people still insist on calling the wonders they have around them just nature. God’s power is seen and experienced in the mighty winds, the waves of the seas and the tornadoes and earthquakes that destroy and bring man’s works to nothing.
- Written in conscience – God has given every man and woman born in the earth a conscience. Conscience is defined as a knowledge or feeling of right and wrong with a compulsion to do right. It comes from two words which literally mean with knowledge. Similar words are conscious, conscientious and consciousness. All of these have to do with knowing or being awake to knowledge. (Ro 2:14,15; Jn 8:9; 1 Tim 4:2; Tit 1:15)
- Written on stone – When God brought Israel into the wilderness after the exodus from Egypt, He gave them His law written on the stone tablets. Moses went up into the mountain and received them as they were written by the finger of God. Moses broke the original ones and God wrote them again and they were placed in the Ark of the Covenant (Ex 31:18; He 9:4).
- Written in Scripture – God inspired chosen men to write His words on parchments to be placed in a book called the Bible one day (2 Pet 1:19-21; 2 Tim 3:16; Jer 36:23; Ro 15:4). God has given us His word that we might know Him and His law. (Jn 6:63)
- Written in Christ – Christ is called the Word incarnate meaning that he is the living word. John tells us that the Word was with God and was/is God and that it became flesh (Jn 1:14). While the Bible is God’s word written on pages of paper, Jesus is God’s Word in life. He lived the word and walked and talked the very word of God.
- Written in believers – Paul tells us that all believers are living epistles (letters) written in the life of those who have been born of the Spirit by the word of God (2 Cor 3:2; 1 Pet 1:23; Ro 10:17)
- Written on the heart – God wrote His law on tables of stone in the wilderness and man could not keep it. God promised that in the new covenant that He would write His law on our hearts and minds by the power of the Holy Spirit (Jer 31:33; Heb 8:10; 10:16). As we allow the Spirit to guide and direct us, we are fulfilling the law that was written on stone in the wilderness. God never intended to do away with His law, only the transplanting of it from tables of stone to tables of flesh that has been empowered by the Holy Spirit (Matt 5:17; Ro 13:8, 10).