"They That Keep The
Commandments Of God"
Rev. 14:12
Don Fortner
There are many who
pretend to live by the rule of God's holy law and hope, by their imperfect
obedience to the law, to win the favor of the perfectly holy God. God's people
are not of this proud, legal, self- righteous spirit. The believer is not under
the law, but under grace. He does not serve God from a principle of law. He is
not motivated by the threats of punishment in the law, because he is dead to
the law. The law has no terror for a
dead man. And the believer is not motivated by the vain hope of reward from God
by his works of obedience, because he is not of a mercenary spirit. He does not
serve God for hire. Yet, only true believers, who refuse to live under the yoke
of the law, are "they that keep the commandments of God."
We keep the law of God
strictly and perfectly through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom.
We also keep the
commandments of God personally. God's saints are not legalists. We do not live
by the rule of the law. But we are not lawless. We delight in the law of God
after the inner man (Rom.