Natural Law

Application of Biblical Truth to Issues of the Day:

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

I. ARE THERE MORAL TRUTHS EVERYONE KNOWS? THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE UNITED STATES THOUGHT SO. AND GOD’S WORD SAYS YES!
A. Romans 1:18-23
Vs. 18 Truth that is known to men is intentionally repressed in unrighteousness: God’s wrath is revealed against this; God is a communicator and has revealed Himself and His truth to mankind, It angers Him for His liberating Truth to be hidden in unrighteous behavior.

Vs. 19 God has shown this truth to them. The knowledge of God is in every man.

Vs. 20 His invisible attributes are revealed in the created order and are even understood by that order. The ones repressing this truth are without excuse before God and He will be just in judging all men because of it. All men are guilty before God because they, like Adam and Eve before them have disobeyed Him and run to hide from Him.

Vs. 21 The knowledge of God is ignored, His person and work are not acknowledged, leading men into ignorance and moral darkness. In these states of spiritual ignorance and moral darkness, men become foolish refusing to listen to instruction of any kind. Yet in their conceit, they consider themselves wise and enlightened. This leads them into idolatry and bondage to their own lusts. They have rejected the natural law and have now become brutish slaves.

B. Romans 2:2, 12-16
Vs. 2 God judges all men by His Truth.

Vs. 11,12 Those who have sinned outside the law will be judged by the law they had created for themselves/

Vs. 14 When Gentiles by nature do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves.

Vs. 15 They do the things in the law because it is written in their hearts and conscience by God. This writing is by God…NATURAL LAW.