KTC: The Fruits of the Law

​Thoughts on Davidic Kingship.

Last week we correlated the 613 commands with our seven covenants. This week we’ll consider the Fruits of the Law under our review of Keeping the Commandments.  When Jehovah freed the Israelites from Egyptian bondage, He began the process of establishing a free society under divine law.  He promised Israel that if they would live His Law that Israel would enjoy the blessings of life, liberty and material abundance.

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The Process of Perfection
Our Process of Perfection looks like this:

                                                                     Individual Salvation
                                                                             Born Again
​                                                       (Redemption / Sanctification)
          Born of the Blood / Born of the Water > Keeps the Commandments > Born of God/Spirit

                                                                       Married Exaltation
                                                                     Going Onto Perfection
                           Becoming Perfect > Reaches the Full Stature of Messiah > Sees God the Son

The Blessings of Life
The Book of Deuteronomy is replete with statements that if Israel would obey God’s commands that Israel would have “life”.  Generally, the concepts of life include being free from death which comes from the conquest and take over by enemies; the control of disease, and being free from the lack of food.

“See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.” Deu 30:15,16


The Blessings of Liberty
The Law also promises liberty or not being held captive by alien powers from within and from without.  The Law set limits on the power of secular and nonsecular leadership. Captivity can also include not being able to assemble in groups, indefinite incarceration, and the restriction of travel. Captivity can take the forms of financial bondage by corrupting a nation's currency, amassing debt, and creating dependency.  And they would be free from the take over of foreign powers.


The Blessings of Material Abundance
God promised Israel that if they would live His law that they would have rain, their crops and animals would multiply.  That there would be enough for all both rich and poor.


Receiving God’s Spirit
Even though we might receive a temporary manifestation of God’s Spirit to bear witness of His 
truth, to receive the constant companionship of the Holy Spirit we will need to live God’s law because the Spirit cannot remain in an unclean vessel.  Moreover, since the commandments are truth by living the commandments we prepare ourselves to receive more truth from God’s Spirit, which is the Spirit of Truth. We’ll go into more detail in our next post about the Spirit when we review - Receiving the Spirit of Truth

“And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.” Acts 5:32​

An Endtime Context
These blessings set out in Deuteronomy becomes even more applicable as we consider the troubles that we are and will see in the Endtimes.  I had a leader tell me once that to be "safe" I needed to follow him, but in the end what we will see that the only way to be truly "safe" is to follow God and His Law.