Author: Rader, Donnie

When we bind where God has not, we are not truly respecting the authority of the word. No one objects to anyone practicing what their personal conviction demands. It is another matter to bind that on others as a matter of faith.

The points we need to remember are this. (1) The Lord’s Day is special. It is different from the other days of the week. (2) The activities of that day are to praise and honor the Lord. (3) We are to treat this day different that the rest of the world does. (4) This is not a day for serving self.

May God help us all to better understand and appreciate that the first day of the week is truly the “Lord’s Holy Day”.

If all men (including alien sinners) are under the law of Christ, then all men (including aliens) are under Christ’s law on marriage, divorce and remarriage (Matt. 19:9). That would mean that those who violate that law (by putting their mate away and marrying another) are living in adultery.

In describing the dispensations, we sometimes give the impression that the patriarchal period ended at Sinai when the Law of Moses began. Since the law given by Moses was for the Jews, what about the Gentiles? As God had dealt with man before the law of Moses, he continued to deal with the Gentile world. The focal point of the OT is the story of the nation through whom the seed would come. The camera of the OT focuses on the Jews and the law given to them. However, God was still dealing all the while with the Gentile world.