8.5 The Law of God in the time of the Patriarchs                       

 

1. Can there be sin where there is no law?
Romans 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Romans 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

 

2. Through what is the knowledge of sin obtained?
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

 

3. Which statement shows that sin was in the world before the law was given on Mount Sinai?
Romans 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

 

4. When did sin and death enter the world?
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

 

5. With what words did God admonish Cain?
Genesis 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

 

6. What shows that God imputed sin to Cain?
Genesis 4:10-11
10 And He said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto Me from the ground.
11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

 

7. What was the difference between the character of Cain and that of Abel?
1 John 3:12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

 

8. In what condition was the world before the Flood?
Genesis 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

 

9. What was God’s purpose to do with the people of that time?
Genesis 6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

 

10. What is Noah called?
2 Peter 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

 

11. Why did the Lord destroy Sodom?
Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

 

12. What was the character of their deeds?
2 Peter 2:7-8
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

 

13. What did Joseph say in Egypt, when he was tempted to sin?
Genesis 39:9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

 

14. What did God say to Abraham concerning the Amorites?
Genesis 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

 

15. Which sin did the Amorites particularly commit?
1 Kings 21:26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

 

16. Why did the Lord abhor the Canaanites?
Leviticus 20:22-23
22 Ye shall therefore keep all My statutes, and all My judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

 

17. Why did God give His promise to the seed of Abraham?
Genesis 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.

 

18. What did God say before He gave the law on Sinai, because some of the people had gone out to gather manna on the seventh day?
Exodus 16:28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep My commandments and My laws?

 

19. Had the Lord spoken about the Sabbath before this time?
Exodus 16:23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

 

20. What had Moses taught Israel before he came to Sinai?
Exodus 18:16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and His laws.