Romans 16:26

but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—

What is the difference between a command and the law?

Exodus 20 English Standard Version

The Ten Commandments

1 And God spoke all these words, saying,

2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Focus on verses 1 thru 5 and we miss the essence behind commandments, showing love, which is hinted at in verse 6..

The law is but a mirror for our soul in showing us just how unfaithful we have been to keep His commands and express our love for Him.

Psalm 119:165

Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.

Israel stumbled over and over again. Their failure to be faithful to keep His commandments fills the Old Testament pages.

Now in the New Covenant we discover that obedience of faith replaces obedience of law. We must remember that He who is righteous abide with us and obedience of faith is found in our personal relationship with our Lord and Savior. He speaks to us by faith and can only be heard in the Spirit.

Romans 10:17

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Are you hearing me or are you hearing Him?

Romans 15:4

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Bible history begins with Moses. Moses has the oldest chronological documentation that has been copied over and over again and passed down through a thousand generations unchanged. History might change but the intellectual disciplines of the scribes within the Hebrew Tribes have been faithful to not change those documents.

The bible’s chronology was given with purpose, to give hope.

• Romans 4:18
  In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”
  Romans 5:2
  Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Abraham became the father of faith because he hoped beyond hope that the promise of God would be kept by the only one who could keep that promise. We stand in the very middle of God’s promise being kept. Grace through faith has been our witness to a lost and dying world that God is real and He keeps HIs promises.

What we hope for matters and in our case it is to see the glory of God. At least that should be what we seek because it is God’s plan for all of us who have placed our faith in Christ.

Psalm 27:8

You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, Lord, do I seek.”

Face in this Psalm means presence, the essence of His person, access to the abiding presence of the Father and the Son, who has given us the Holy Spirit, so that we might know them.

My hope for everyone is to discover that it is true.

Read, believe and obey His Word.