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Date Posted	November 22, 2007
Article Title	Law of the Mind and Heart
Posted By	Greg Richardson
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Law of the Mind and Heart Jeremiah 31:27 - 34 NKJV “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. And it shall come to pass, that as I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord. In those days they shall say no more: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children’s teeth are set on edge.’ But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” Terrorist, fascist, communist, and socialist of the world, are attacking the United States of America, a nation founded on and under the principles of Biblical Christianity and these forms of evil seek to destroy the way of Jesus Christ, and this evil has infiltrated our land and our laws. On September 11, 2001 terrorist attacked us and that has forever changed us as a people. We have come to know that we are not invulnerable to these rogues who are attempting to destroy us. This attack was obvious and we can see plainly the damage that occurred. We saw 3000+ dead and the loss of resources, but another attack of terrorism, fascism; communism, and socialism; blatant forms of evil, happened long ago and attacked the core of our nation: The Law. Charles E. Steele writes that for the first hundred years of American Independence, the Constitution was considered the Law of the land. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin wrote his famous book "Origin of the Species." The dean of the Harvard Law College, Christopher Columbus Langdell, read Darwin's book, and he reasoned, if man evolved from apes then law should also be an evolving idea, which changes as man changes. By the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the concept of Legal Relativism began to be formulated. The encyclopedia describes the basic tenets of relativism: A widespread and familiar form of skepticism is ethical relativism, the view that there is no one correct moral code for all times and peoples, that each group has its own morality relative to its wants and values, and that all moral ideas are necessarily relative to a particular culture. According to this view, cannibals are justified in eating human beings by the standards of their own culture even if not by the standards of Western culture, and there can be no basis for claiming that the standards of Western culture are superior to theirs. Man has become the measure of all things, and . . . each man [can] be his own measure. . . . [C]annibalism, incest, abortion, thievery and other practices considered taboo are just variant kinds of behavior, to be appreciated as acceptable in some cultures and not in others. . . . [Relativism] urge[s] suspension of judgment about right or wrong. In our scripture Jeremiah 31:27 – 34 we are told that God in the distant past used affliction, and other ways to teach his laws. In verse 28 God through the prophet Jeremiah tells us, And it shall come to pass, that as I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord. In the past and present the Lord removes the lawless ways of man by breaking him, using affliction, floods all in attempt to allow man the freedom to take God’s law and apply it in their lives. Despite God’s intentions for our lives lawless people refuse to let the laws of God prevail. The Lord God who is merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, decided to make a new covenant with His people “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, said in Jeremiah 31:33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. God knew that we are unwilling to take the law into our hearts; so God decided He would write the law into our hearts with an ink that does not fade or change. This precious ink is the Blood of Jesus Christ shed on the cross for all who call on his name. The law of God is written on our hearts so no one can make the claim that, “I did not know.” In our legal system today, and in God’s legal system ignorance is not an excuse, because the new covenant of Jesus states that the law is wrote on our hearts. This law of the heart is plain to see in children all around the world. Children know without telling them that stealing is wrong, or it is wrong to kill someone, or to lie. We know in our hearts that these things are wrong, and we can see in our own lives that the laws of God are written the indelible ink of the Blood of Christ, onto our very souls. However, this does not stop us from trying to ignore these laws and justify or excuse sin. This internal battle within each of us; to justify our sins has and is a struggle throughout our life, and as Christians we fight to keep these excuses and justifications as internal to us, not being manifested in our lives. In America and the world today this justification process has eclipsed the mind of the heart and made its way into the laws that are supposed to govern us. The judges of our nation, who are supposed to judge using the law of the land, are on regular basis rewriting law to justify man’s moral relativism. These judges have crossed the line of thought, and have acted; and their actions have stolen not only their very souls, but have given us yet another tool to justify sin and lose our soul to the deceiver. Jesus speaking through a parable says in Luke 18:1 - 8 NKJV 1Then He spoke a parable to them, (please remember that Jesus uses parables to illuminate something none to something unknown), that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, saying: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. Today the display of the Ten Commandments is offensive to many people and judges because it points to moral values of right and wrong, which is contrary to the Legal Relativism we use to justify the sin of our nation. Christopher Langdell, the Harvard law professor of the 19th century formulated a system of Case Law, in which Judges would no longer refer to the Constitution as the cornerstone of our law, but would refer to other Judge's rulings in other cases. As time progressed court cases have become the cornerstone of which the judicial branch draw opinions, disregarding the law and the standards of right and wrong. You may remember playing telephone where one child whispered the message to the next child, then that child would repeat the message to the next child. This would continue on until the message had traveled down the line. The original message would then be read to the group and then compared to final repeated version. The two messages would have little if any similarity and everyone would laugh. Case law is a similar idea. You get each Judges opinion from another Judge as to what the Constitution means, rarely going back, or using these cases to justify their judicial tyranny. Today we have a vast array of "case" opinions that a judge can justify almost any position. The Twentieth Century has birthed the concept of Legal Relativism and Case Law and these ungodly principles are taught in all law schools across America. Today on the Supreme Court, four of the nine Justices believe the Constitution can be rewritten from decision to decision, depending on the current national or worldwide trends. Recently Justices Breyer and Ginsburg, who happen to be Clinton appointees, for the first time, cited foreign legal precedents as primary authority for its decision. We no longer look to our Constitution, which is based upon the Ten Commandments, as our cornerstone of truth in the United States. Today many of the judges in the United States look to other countries and their laws that have decriminalized conduct, which God calls sin, and these judges have actually over turned the written laws of America. This is judicial activism, which is clearly defined in the words of Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), the Court's Chief Justice from 1930 to 1941. Charles Evans Hughes declared that, "We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is." This view is no different when the Catholic Church of medieval Europe told the people that the church and the priest is the only interpreter of the Bible. Nevertheless, Christians have cried out, cried out to the Father in Heaven asking justice be dealt evenhandedly. Even handed justice so that all peoples of this nation, born and unborn have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and cried out asking that the laws that are written on all of our hearts with the Blood of Jesus Christ, rules in this greatest country in the History of Mankind. Despite these cries, some judges ignore the laws of man and God. Jesus went on teaching with his parable in Luke 18:3-6 Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’” Then the Lord said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. Here Jesus illuminates us with prophecy telling us that the unsaved is not willing to listen to the law which he wrote on their hearts. But Jesus stands with the Christian he boldly says in Luke 18:7-8 And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Jesus is our avenger that will calm our cries of justice. He will avenge the 60 million murders of innocent unborn children, He will avenge the cries of the people of this nation who have taken the Law of God written on their hearts and have used them to guide their lives. Jesus Christ is our redeemer, our avenger and our King and He will set all things right when he returns, but even Jesus wondered about his return. He questions all of mankind and his disciples in Luke 18:8 (Question) Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” In that day when Jesus returns, Jeremiah 31 verse 34 will be fulfilled “No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord.” With one drop of Blood of Jesus the Christ, your sins can be forgiven, can be wiped away, and the law written on you heart will be fulfilled, For God the Father says, “For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” AMEN
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