Part of what we’ll see in these last days will be the spirit of antinomianism where people want no Law.  You bring people the Word of God and bring them instruction and reproof and rebuke, and they don’t want to hear it.  “I’m already redeemed, I’m saved, I’m eternally secure.  I can’t be lost; I don’t need to hear any of this.  Don’t put the Law on me; Don’t put bondage on me.”  They’ll call the Law bondage.  The Law is a lamp to our feet; amen?  The Law we hide in our hearts that we might not sin against God.  The Law, Galatians says, is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.  Romans 7 says the Law is good and perfect and just; amen?  Get that in your minds.  Don’t let that passage ever get away from you, or you’ll mishandle the Law of God.  The Law is good.  The Law is perfect, converting the soul.  Amen?  The testimony of the Lord makes wise the simple.  It’s more to be desired than gold, sweeter than the honey of the honeycomb.  “I love your Law!”—was the heart’s cry of those that had communion with Him.  The Law is good.

The Word of God is perfect; it produces after its own kind—the law of Genesis.  Our responsibility has to do preparing our soil so that the seed that falls upon it brings forth life, brings forth purity, brings forth holiness—all of these things that are contained in that Word.  That seed will produce after its own kind, praise God!  It’s possible in your life and in my life for the Word of God to fall on other than good, perfect soil.  There’s the wayside that’s trodden down, there’s the stony ground that’s shallow, having no root in themselves, the moment trials come, they faint.  People are so excited about Jesus, but when the first trial comes, they bail out.  Part of the problem with that is the way Christians present the Gospel: “If you come and make Jesus your Savior, life will be perfect, you’ll never have any more troubles, God will bless you.  He’s going to make you rich; He’ll heal your child.” And we lead them to think that this Christian life will never have any adversities, but the Bible teaches exactly the opposite.  Christians are not immune to the tragedies of life.  We want to know who did sin that this child was born blind and why did that tower fall over on those particular people?  Because they were standing there when it fell over.  “Well, can’t God protect us from those kinds of things?”  Of course, He can!  He could have very easily spoke to their hearts and said, “Take three steps to the right.”  Nothing happens in our life by chance.  “The steps of the good man are ordered by the Lord” (Psalm 37:23); amen?  We are not subject to chance, to fate.  So, we rest in the goodness of God.  We rest in what we know about God and what He’s revealed about Himself in the Scriptures, and we know that God is good, and just, and merciful, and kind.  So, we judge Him by how He’s revealed Himself, not by our circumstances.

We need to let the Word of God germinate in our hearts, and if you we don’t faint (shallow ground), if you don’t get caught up in the affairs of this life (the thorns that came in and choked out the Word of God), then you will produce fruit.  Amen?  Jesus in His doctrine said, “Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them” (Matthew 7:20).  So, sound doctrine, then, is what we do and what we produce, not what we believe.  You are the fruit that you produce, that’s what you believe.  It doesn’t matter what your learning is, your ability to systematize facts, to memorize Scripture.  The Scripture says in the last days, they will have a form of godliness but deny the power of this gospel that transforms us and makes us new creatures, and the things we used to love we now hate; amen.