Alien Law Systems

Alien Law Systems - Part 1

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Professor: John Weaver

Subject: Biblical Law

Genre: Sermon

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Date: 2025-12-07

Synopsis: John Weaver introduces the concept of alien law systems, arguing that every law system is religious in origin and that the source of law is the god of that society. He contends that toleration of alien law systems leads to the suicide of the existing system, using Solomon's idolatry and modern Islam as examples. The message emphasizes the continuing validity of God's law for sanctification and the danger of replacing biblical law with humanistic or Islamic law.

[John Weaver] All right, let's open our Bible today to Isaiah 33 and verse 22. Isaiah 33 and verse 22. And I hope you will be able to see the connection with what I've been teaching for the last three weeks. But look, if you would, please, Isaiah 33 and verse 22. The scripture says, For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. And the Lord is our King. He will save us. Now. I hope you remember that.

[John Weaver] The first message I dealt with. On Solomon, first Kings 11 was losing your wisdom and losing your mind. In the second and the third message dealt with the dangers of old age. Basically from the same text. Although I've used a different text today, I want to continue this to show you what was actually happening in 1 Kings chapter 11. So this is going to be the first of three messages, which I'm going to be dealing with the title Alien Law Systems. Alien Law Systems. So if you'll notice our text again in Isaiah 33 and verse 22, For the Lord is our judge, that is, he is the judicial system. The Lord is our lawgiver.

[John Weaver] He is the legislative branch as well. The Lord is our king. He's the executive branch. He will save us.

[John Weaver] Now, many historians believe that we derive the three branches of our government from this particular text. So here's a principle that I want us to grasp at the very outset. This principle you need to keep in mind, especially during the next two messages as well. But here it is. A king rules by his law. That stands true with God and man as well. So although we do not supposedly have kings in America, we do have presidents.

[John Weaver] And we do have political parties. And I don't know if you've noticed or not, but when Joe Biden was placed in office, he immediately began to dismantle everything that Trump had accomplished, whether it was good or whether it was bad, it's immaterial. And then when Trump got back in office, he immediately tried to dismantle everything that Biden had done or those who took over for Biden. had accomplished during those four years.

[John Weaver] So, is politics plain and simple? Why? And the answer is because each one believes that their views are right, their religion is right, their interpretation of everything is correct, and they're going to push that above any and everything else.

[John Weaver] Now, God has ordained that His law be supreme and sovereign. God ordained Israel as they went into Canaan land to disestablish all of these pagan religions and throw down all of the altars. God actually forbade the worship of false gods.

[John Weaver] Now, you're going to ask, I would hope you would ask, why did he forbid that? Well, it is true that God is not going to share his glory, and it is true that one of God's names is jealous in the Bible, but there is another reason that God forbade the worship of false gods. So let me ask you this. Have you ever contemplating why God has actually demanded faithfulness to his law, faithfulness to his commandments? Let me ask this another way. Have you ever contemplated why Jesus Christ was not only made of one, but the Bible also says made under the law.

[John Weaver] Galatians 4 verses 4 and 5. But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law, and then he goes on to say to redeem them that were under the law. So Jesus Christ had to come and submit to the law of God and keep the law perfectly in every detail in order to work out an absolute perfect righteousness.

[John Weaver] Now, there are two phrases in the Bible, especially in the New Testament, that I believe that are very much abused. They're taken out of context. They're misinterpreted. They're misapplied. And those two phrases are that we are not under the law and or that we are dead to the law. Interestingly enough, many people interpret those two phrases to mean that that God's law has been abrogated, nullified, and set aside. And yet the Bible says in Romans 6 in verse 14, listen carefully now, for sin shall not have dominion over you for you're not under the law but under grace. Now if someone says, well there it is, we're not under the law, the law's been done away with.

[John Weaver] No, if you read the context, the Apostle Paul of course is talking about justification. And, of course, he's saying that we're not under the law as a means of justification. No one has ever been saved by keeping the law. The law was never ever given for the means of justification. So he says we're not under the law as a means of justification, but we are certainly under grace. Now, clearly, no one could ever be justified by the law because the law demands a personal obedience, a perfect obedience, and a perpetual obedience. So even if you were made absolutely perfect today and you never ever broke God's law again, period, internally or externally, and you were perfect now from this moment to the day and the time and the minute that you die, what about all of those times before you became perfect?

[John Weaver] Those are still sinful and they would still have to be taken care of. Now, I want you to turn in your Bibles, you can hold Isaiah, but turn in your Bibles to the book of Galatians chapter 3, and let's begin reading there with verse 10. And I want you to notice what he said. Galatians 3, verse 10. The Apostle Paul writes it like this. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse. So there is a curse attached to the law. If you do not render to the law that personal perfect and perpetual obedience. Now watch this. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse, for it is written, Cursed is everyone that committed, that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

[John Weaver] So if you're going to keep one point of the law, you have to keep every point of the law, and you have to keep it perfectly, personally, and perpetually. Then he goes on to say in verse 11, But that no man is justified by the law of the sight of God, it is evident, for the just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith, but the man that doeth them shall live in them. And then he says this, that Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, not the law, but the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree.

[John Weaver] So once you talk about being under the law and being dead to the law, those two terms do not mean that God's law does not apply. If you interpret not under the law and dead to the law as meaning God's law has been abrogated, nullified, set aside, done away with, then I've got some very pertinent questions I want to ask you. And I want you to think as I ask these questions. Number one, how do we know that which is sin if we are dead to the law, not under the law, and that means that the law has been abrogated, nullified, or done away with? How do we know that which is sin? If God has destroyed the law, how in the world can we identify sin?

[John Weaver] Now, the Bible says in Romans chapter 3 and verse 20, Therefore, by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. We know what sin is because God has defined it in His law.

[John Weaver] Now, I would encourage you to either look at or at least try to remember 1 John 3 and verse 4. It's a very important verse. Whosoever committed sin transgresseth also the law. For sin is the transgression of the law. So sin is when someone transgresses the law. So if I do that which you do not like, if I do that which you do not approve of, if I do that which you think is not something that should be done, that does not make it sin. You may not like what I do, But as long as it is not a violation of the law of God, it is not sin. Now, the Bible tells you in Romans chapter 7 and verse 7, the Apostle Paul said it like this.

[John Weaver] What shall we say then? Is the law sin? And then he says, God forbid. And every time you see the term God forbid, it simply means this. Don't even think that. Don't let that enter into your mind whatsoever.

[John Weaver] Now listen to what else he said. What shall we say then, is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law. For the law, he said, but I had not known lust, except the Lord said thou shalt not covet. In other words, the Apostle Paul saw the spirituality of God's law, and it was God's law who pointed out the fact that he was indeed a sinner.

[John Weaver] Now, I want you to turn over in your Bibles to the book of 1 Timothy chapter 1 because there is indeed what I would call a lawful use of the law and an unlawful use of the law. An unlawful use of the law is when you endeavor to be saved by keeping the law. When you think that somehow your good deeds are going to outweigh your bad deeds and that's going to be sufficient. No. Look what he says in 1 Timothy chapter 1 verse 8. But we know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully. Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless, a disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and for vain, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for men-sealers, for liars, for perjured persons,

[John Weaver] and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine. Now, if we took the time, we could go through those verses and pick out every one of the Ten Commandments.

[John Weaver] Now, the law was never ever given for justification. So let me say that again. That is an unlawful use of the law. One of the reasons God gave the law, not all the reasons, but one of the reasons is, of course, for the revelation of sin, that we might understand what sin really is.

[John Weaver] Now, I want you to note what he said in verse 8. For we know that the law is good.

[John Weaver] Now, the word good in the Greek is the word kolos, which means beautiful, handsome, excellent, imminent, choice, magnificent, genuine, approved, and that which is excellent. So, if the law has been negated, if the law has been done away with, How in the world do we know what sin is? Because sin is defined by the law. Here's the second question. You say, but Pastor, now we have faith. Well, my question would be this. Does faith replace God's law?

[John Weaver] And the answer, of course, is no. If you look in your Bibles to the book of Romans, Chapter 3, at verses 30 and 31. Romans, Chapter 3, verses 30 and 31. Look at this. The Word of God says, seeing it as one God which shall justify the circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith, do we then make void the law through faith? Here's that term again, God forbid. Don't even think that. Don't even let it enter into your mind. He says, do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid, yea, we establish the law. Now the word establish is the word systemi in the Greek and it literally means to cause to stand, to establish, to stand in place and to make firm. So he says faith does not negate the law of God, it establishes God's law. Now if you will turn back in your Bibles to the book of Matthew chapter 5 and look if you would please at verse 17. Matthew chapter 5 and verse 17. Our Lord is teaching on the Sermon on the Mount, and look what he says, if you would please, in verse 17 of Matthew chapter 5.

[John Weaver] Note what he said. Think not that I am come to destroy the law of the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. Now, if you try to tell me that Jesus Christ destroyed the law, then you'd have to say, based upon this text, He also destroyed the prophets, which is not so. But he says, think not again, don't even let this enter your mind. Think not that I've come to destroy the law or the prophets. I've not come to destroy, but to fulfill. Now, there are two words that are very important in this verse, and those two words are destroy and fulfill. So the word destroy in the Greek is the word kataluo. And it literally means destroy, to overthrow.

[John Weaver] to dissolve, to abrogate, to demolish, to nullify, to dismantle and subvert. He says, don't even let that enter your mind. Don't think that I've come to destroy the law or the prophets. He said, I'm not come to destroy, but to fulfill. Now, the word fulfill is the Greek word plerao. And it literally means to make full, to cause to abound, to render perfect and to put into full force as continuous. So clearly then, faith does not negate the law of God.

[John Weaver] Here's the third question I would ask you. If the law is negated and done away with, what is wrong with sin? You say, well, it's just wrong. Upon what basis would you say that it's wrong? So suppose I took a pistol then and went to everyone in this room and robbed you and took everything that you had and you tried to tell me it's wrong. Upon what basis would it be wrong if the law has been nullified? Here's another question. Upon what basis is God going to judge? Because God has a standard. That standard is his law. And if you're going to say the law's been done away with, then obviously, clearly, something is wrong, because there'd be no basis for God to judge.

[John Weaver] The Bible says in Romans chapter 4 and verse 15, listen carefully, because the law worketh wrath, for where no law is, there is no transgression. So if there is no law, if God's law has been done away with, Help yourself to fornication, to murder, theft, lie, fraud. Because if there's no law, there's no sin. So obviously we know that there is sin and God's law does not do away with sin.

[John Weaver] Here's the fourth question I would ask you. If you think that the law has been done away with, dead to the law and not under the law means that it's been abrogated or set aside. Without the law, how would we know that which is pleasing unto God? And how would we understand sanctification? Have you ever said, Lord, I want to please you? Well, how do we know what's pleasing unto God? Well, let me show you.

[John Weaver] Look in your Bibles, first of all, to the book of Colossians chapter one. And look, if you would please, at verse verse 10, Colossians chapter one. Notice if you would please verse 10. Colossians 1 verse 10. The apostle writes that you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. Well, we understand it would be pleasing to God if we were fruitful in every good work, but then you've got to determine what is a good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. Well, What is increasing in the knowledge of God? So, he tells us he wants us to walk pleasing. Now, turn right over to Colossians chapter 3 and verse 20. Colossians 3 and verse 20. Look at this one. Children, obey your parents in all things for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Well, what is it that's pleasing unto the Lord? It's obedience. It's submission. It's keeping his commandments. Because the commandment of God is, honor thy father and thy mother.

[John Weaver] Children, obey your parents and the Lord, for this is right. So we know what sanctification is. We know what pleasing the Lord is because he's giving it to us in his word. If you would turn right on over to the book of First Thessalonians and look in chapter four, beginning there in verse one, look at this one. First Thessalonians four, verse one, Paul writes furthermore, Then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us, how you ought to walk and to please God.

[John Weaver] So you would abound more and more. So he said, we are teaching you how you ought to walk and to please God. Well, watch verse two, for you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. Verse three, for this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication, that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor. So, what is the will of God? How do I walk pleasing? Well, I abstain from fornication and I learn to keep my vessel in sanctification and honor.

[John Weaver] Let's see now, that brings me to what? Thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not lust, thou shalt not covet, thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother, and thou shalt not know the gods before me. In other words, keeping God's law then is pleasing unto him.

[John Weaver] Now, if that's not clear enough, if you will turn over in your Bibles to 1 John chapter 3, 1 John chapter 3, look if you would please at verse 22. 1 John 3 verse 22. The Bible said that whatsoever we ask, we receive of him. Because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. Well, what is pleasing in his sight? Well, it's obviously keeping his commandments.

[John Weaver] Now, as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, we are not under the law as a means of justification. We are under the law as a means of sanctification, but not justification. There is no one that can be sanctified, there is no one that can be holy, as long as there are whoremongers and thieves and murderers and liars, and doing everything that is contrary to God. We are dead to the law in the sense that we are dead to the penalty of that law. It is true we broke that law, but we died in Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ came as our sacrifice, as our substitute, as our propitiation, and the fact of the matter is he is our head and we are his body and we actually died in him and therefore we are dead to the law the law cannot penalize us it cannot chastise us because our bill has been paid in full in the Lord Jesus Christ that's what the Bible says in Romans 6 and verse 6 knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin.

[John Weaver] So clearly then God's law is still around and still applicable. Now I was not necessarily going to emphasize all those things but I had to do so in order to get to the body of the message. So you remember Solomon built all these altars and temples to Ashtoreth to Moloch and to Chemosh. Have you ever asked yourself, why? Does God forbid idolatry? Obviously, clearly, yes, he is the jealous God and he is the one true and living God. And he said in Isaiah 42 in verse eight, he is not going to share his glory with another. He's not going to give his praise to idols. Clearly, that is true now. But let me show you Why God for bad? All this idolatry and the intermarriage with idolaters.

[John Weaver] So I want you to turn back in your Bibles to the book of Exodus chapter 34. Now we actually looked at this passage when I was talking about Solomon and losing your wisdom and losing your mind. But I want you to see it again. Look in Exodus chapter 34 and begin there with verse 12. Look what he said. Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee. So it could be a snare. What kind?

[John Weaver] But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. For thou shalt worship no other god, for the Lord whose name is jealous is a jealous God, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a-whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods. And one called thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice, and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a-whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a-whoring after their gods." So God says, no, you're not to do this.

[John Weaver] Now, turn right over to the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 7, And let's begin reading there with verse 1. Deuteronomy 7, verse 1. I'm going to point out the danger here, just momentarily. Deuteronomy chapter 7, look in verse 1. When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou. And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them, and thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. Why? For they will turn away thy son from following thee, that they may serve other gods. so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you and destroy thee suddenly.

[John Weaver] But thus shalt thou deal with them, thou shalt destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all the people that are upon the face of the earth."

[John Weaver] Now, let me just say this very plainly. Pagans, the unsaved, the heathen, however you want to call this, but pagans do not have the same culture, the same faith, the same principles, and the same objectives as those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. And he's saying don't make these covenants. So, let's suppose that Steve is an unsaved man, and I'm a saved man. And Steve and I decide we're going to go in business together We're going to covenant with each other, and Steve is good at mechanics, and I'm not. I'm going to just run the business. He's going to do the work. Okay? Well, guess what? It's not going to be too long before we have a conflict, because I'm going to want to be closing up, especially on Sunday. He may want to work on Sunday. I want to go to church during certain nights of the week. He doesn't want to go to the church during certain nights of the week. I want to be generous and gracious and help somebody who needs help.

[John Weaver] No, no, he's interested in for the money. In other words, there's going to be conflicts because we do not have the same faith, we do not have the same culture, we do not have the same objectives. God says do not do this.

[John Weaver] Now, there's a passage that makes this exceedingly clear. Amos 3, in verse 3, where God asks the question, can two walk together except they be agreed.

[John Weaver] Now, I just gave you this illustration when we looked in 1 Kings chapter 11 for three weeks. Solomon married all these pagan women and they ultimately turned away his heart from the one true and living God to their idols.

[John Weaver] Now, all you have to do is also read the book of Ezra and the book of Nehemiah and you'll see this over and over. So let me make this statement that God's law is a revelation of his righteousness. And so there is no ground in scripture for despising God's law. Neither can you relegate law to the Old Testament and grace to the New Testament. When you get to Genesis 6, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. When you get to the New Testament, children obey your parents and the Lord for this is right.

[John Weaver] Honor thy father and mother. There's law in the New Testament. There's grace in the Old Testament.

[John Weaver] Now, I've pointed out this truth many times, but let me just nail this one for you. When you despise God's law, you despise God. You cannot separate God from his law. I want you to turn in your Bibles, if you would, to 2 Samuel chapter 12. Everyone in this room is familiar with the sin of David. when he committed adultery with Bathsheba and also when he had Uriah the Hittite murdered with the sword of the children of Ammon. So God is nailing David right now. And I want you to notice what God says to David in verse 9, 2 Samuel chapter 12, verse 9. God asked him, Wherefore hath thou despised the commandment of the Lord to do evil in his sight? Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with a sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. So, obviously, David has committed adultery. God has said, Thou shalt not do so. So he's despised the commandment. God said, Thou shalt not murder, and yet he's done so.

[John Weaver] He's dishonored his parents. He's broken the first commandment. He's placed himself ahead of God. But note verse 9, Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of God? Now look in verse 10.

[John Weaver] Now therefore the sword shall never depart out of thine house because thou hast despised me that has taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. Now how did David despise God? And the answer is by despising his commandment. So the rejection of God and his law always results in humanism subjectivism, idolatry, and tyranny. Even the Greek culture, like all other cultures that rejected God, became humanistic to the core. So, modern humanism is the religion of the state. It's the religion of the nation. It always locates law in the state or in the people of the state. In other words, the people and or the state becomes the God of the system. It was like Mao Zedong when he said, our God is none other than the masses of the Chinese people. In other words, we're the source of our law, or the state is the source of our law.

[John Weaver] Now, so you've got to understand clearly then, we have certain things that are are just absolutely insane in this land today. Now, so let me just go ahead and make another point here that I think is actually important in the sense that we have to understand, first of all, by the way, when I give you this, years ago I worked my way through The Institutes of Biblical Law by Rush Duny. And I never will forget, on the first page or two, he gave five principles. And they're just as relevant today as they were back then. And if you understand these principles, and I would love for you to understand them, especially in light of the next two messages, you're going to see how applicable everything is that I'm talking about. Because you're going to see, I trust, and I hope, that any time you have an idolatrous religion, you have an alien law system. You have something that is operating contrary to God and His law. So let me give you these five principles. Here's the first one.

[John Weaver] The law in every culture is religious in origin. There is no such thing as an unreligious law. Law governs man and society, and law is that which determines what is good and evil, right and wrong, righteous and unrighteous. So if you want to study a legal foundation in any culture, you almost always have to study their religion, because their religion is that which dictates their law. So you have to remember that you may have a Christian religion or you may have a secular humanistic religion but the law system is based upon the religion. The law system explains the religion. It backs up the religion. So you may have a Christian religion in a government, or you may have a pagan religion in the government, but it is still religious. So, you try to tell me that, well, we don't really have a religious government today. No, we do have a religious government today. Okay. You cannot, you cannot, you cannot separate government and religion. Here's the second principle. It must be recognized that in any culture, the source of law is the god of that society.

[John Weaver] The source of law is the God of that society. So, if you base your actions, your conduct, your behavior upon what you think, your God is your mind. That's rationalism. That's transcendentalism. In other words, if we say that the Supreme Court is the source of our God in America, or is the source of our law in America, then it's our God. If we say that Congress is the source of our law, then it's our God. You see, the Greek word for law is nomos. The Greek word for mind is nous. The Greeks believed that the nomos, the law, came from the mind. So now what you have right here is a marked distinction between God's law and man's law. God's law is divine revelation. Man's law is based upon his own thinking, his own rationalistic thought. By the way, I might point out the fact that the War of Northern Aggression basically came from rationalism and transcendentalism because of those New Englanders who thought that their thinking was correct and over and above the Word of God and hence they were going to enforce their thinking upon the South and upon

[John Weaver] any and everyone else. So, no, the source of your law is the God of that society. That is for sure.

[John Weaver] Now, modern humanism always locates law in the state or in the masses. Here's the third principle. In any society, any change of law is either explicitly or implicitly a change of religion. Whenever you have a shift in the law structure, you have a shift in religion. It may shift from a biblical law system to a secularistic or humanistic law system or some other religious religion, but it is still religious. You cannot have a change of law without having a change of religion.

[John Weaver] This is the difference between the Reformation and the Renaissance. When you look at the Reformation, everything was being based upon the Word of God. When you look at the Renaissance, everything was being based upon the mind of man and the way man thought. And years ago I brought a message on the historical and biblical significance of the beard. And I pointed out that during the Reformation, men always had short hair and beards. During the Renaissance, men were always clean-shaven, had long hair, and looked like a woman. The difference is, based upon God's law in the Reformation, and man's law in the Renaissance. Now, everything has changed in this country. I hear this regularly, and I would say this, anyone at least my age and older are always asking this question. What happened to the country in which I grew up? You stop and think about that question. What happened to the normal, sane, friendly, and helpful society in which we were raised even 70 years ago?

[John Weaver] And now everybody's pushing people in front of a train, shooting people they've never seen, never understood, never heard about, just shooting into crowds, shooting into buildings, shooting into homes, What happened? Well, there's a shift from biblical law to humanistic law. Anytime you have a shift in law, you have a shift in religion. So I can say it like this. This is not your grandfather's America. It's totally different. It's totally different. Here's the fourth principle. There can be no disestablishment of religion in any society.

[John Weaver] Now you can disestablish a church and religion can be supplanted by another religion. Now you do not have to have a state church or national church like England does. England has the Anglican Church. But just because we do not have a state church or national church does not mean that we do not have a religious establishment in this country. So what happens is this, the Christian theism, the biblical worldview, has been supplanted by a humanistic and secularistic worldview.

[John Weaver] So, if you want to verify what I'm saying, I want you to look at the legal systems and the religions of the pagan countries. Think about this. The Roman Catholic countries have a different law system than we have. The Islamic countries have a different law system than we have. The Hindu nations have a different law system than we have. The Buddhist nations have a different law system than we have. Why? Because your religion determines your law system. It's just that simple. So, you cannot have a change in a legal system or a law system unless you have a change in religion.

[John Weaver] I'll say this another way. You cannot even have a change in culture unless you have a change in religion. So your cultural changes and your legal changes are always preceded by a change in religion. That is why these things change.

[John Weaver] Now, for instance, look at the state of Michigan. Look at Minnesota. Look at what is happening in Texas, or at least parts of these states. because now the Muslims have taken over and they are now having Sharia courts. Michigan even has a Muslim police force with Arabic patches. So does Minnesota, which I'm going to explain just a little bit later. So let me give you some very important quotes. I want you to listen to these quotes. In fact, I will give you more next week, but I want you to listen to these.

[John Weaver] And these are not mine. I did not make these up. Okay, here we go. Muslims, most of them are said by Muslims themselves, Muslims are not coming to assimilate. They're coming to conquer. With surging demands for Sharia courts and public displays of Islamic supremacy that clash with Western freedoms, Islam's core tenets foster Conquest, not coexistence. Here's another one from Anima. Blow up, burn, shoot, slaughter with knives, crush with buses, break into their homes, kill them, punish them by any means. ISIS's explicit orders from al-Nabaw to target Christians demand action to defend Western faith and security now.

[John Weaver] that was put out by Al-Nabawi. Here, how about this one? It is October the 31st, just a few days ago, 2025 Friday Sermon at the Islamic Center of Kansas in Oloth, Mohammed Tarif urged his fellow Muslims to destroy the criminal Zionists and those who helped them and armed them and normalized them. He added, count them, kill them one by one, Do not spare a single one of them.

[John Weaver] And even in Michigan has a message for Americans. Here's what he said. You Americans are the ignorant. The last hope for America is Islam. We are leaders of the world, the masters and the teachers. We will bring Sharia and spices to the white man's unseasoned chicken. Wow. So here's what I'm trying to tell you. If Christianity is overthrown, it will not be the end of religion. Christianity will just be supplanted either by Islam or by secularism or humanism. You cannot disestablish a religion because all you're doing is leading one religion for another religion. And each religion has its own particular law system. Now, here's the fifth point. Listen carefully. There can be no tolerance in a law system for another religion or law system. The reason you cannot have another tolerance is because you're letting something contrary to you come in to undermine everything that you believe. I want you to listen to this quote. I'm going to give it again before I close today. Watch this.

[John Weaver] Toleration is a device used to introduce a new system as a prelude to a new intoleration. Wow! Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law system as a prelude to a new intolerance. Let me ask you a question. If Islam took over America tomorrow, do you think we would maintain our law system? Do you think we'd maintain our freedoms? No. Absolutely not. Because with Islamic religion comes Sharia law. And you cannot disestablish Sharia law without disestablishing Islam. So when you allow alien law systems into your culture, into your society, you're allowing an alien religion And what you're doing is basically committing suicide slowly. You're actually killing yourself. Every system, every law system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law system and the alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide.

[John Weaver] Now, I want to give you another quote. Some of you may have seen this. There is a Somali sheriff in Minnesota. You can see it on the internet. He says he serves Somalis first. His words will shock you if you watch the video and if you listen. And here's what I printed off from the article. Picture this. a sheriff in uniform standing in front of a Somali flag telling his audience that as Somali police officers we work for you, that is the Somalis. That's not a scene from Mogadishu, it's from Minnesota where a local sheriff just admitted on camera that his loyalty is not to the American taxpayers footing his bill but to his ethnic enclave. The video shows the sheriff speaking in Somali at a community event with English subtitles, making the punch land hard. At the 24-second mark, he says, that's why we're different from foreigners, referring to native Minnesotan officers he called the Americans foreigners. Let that sink in. I know everyone has heard about the great fraud in Minnesota. I just read this week, instead of them defrauding taxpayers out of $1 billion, it's now probably $8 billion.

[John Weaver] And it's being sent back to Somalia. to support the terrorists. Gabriel, a Lebanese Christian who fled Islamic militias, said this, Islam is the political ideology of conquest. They come not to integrate, but to dominate. And then this was stated. Polls bear this out. Pew's 2016 data shows 40% of European Muslims favor Sharia with support for suicide bombings against civilians. A few more quotes. Islam is incompatible with Western civilization.

[John Weaver] They aim to conquer and they want you to know that. They're coming to promote their own culture. Most want to impose Sharia and build their calibate. Muslims aren't flocking to the West to integrate but to conquer. Now I want you to listen carefully to this quote. Muslim Brotherhood declares they'll impose Sharia law in America through the ballot box or the bullet. There is no in between. So they're literally saying they're going to take over our country either through elections or through murder.

[John Weaver] So Islam is really a national security threat. They're talking about taking over. So let me give it to you like this. The word Islam means submission to Allah. And a Muslim is one who is submitted to Allah. You heard it said that Islam is the religion of peace. Well it is. But it's just the definition of Islamic peace that differs from our definition of peace. Peace to us is when you and I get along.

[John Weaver] When we're not trying to rule over each other. We're not trying to antagonize each other. We're not trying to, you know, defraud. We're just cooperating. We're working together. We're happy as the Lord. That's our definition of peace normally. I'm not talking about religious peace or biblical peace. I'm just talking about getting along. Well, the Islamic definition of peace is different in Islam peace is when everyone is submitted to Allah and world peace is when the world is conquered by Islam and everyone submits to Allah so let me say this again toleration is a device that always allows a new religion or a new law system to sneak in and then it is a prelude to a new intolerance. Because when the other legal system or religion takes over, it is going to defend itself and become intolerant to any and everything else. And when we tolerate that which is contrary to God and contrary to His law, it is suicide. Now, Lord willing, next week I'm going to show you where God demands one law and I'm going to show you why, Lord willing.

[John Weaver] Toleration is what you and I cannot afford. Toleration not only allows alien law systems to multiply and take over, and we're going to learn, if we have not already, that forsaking God's law and God's law system has grave consequences. I want you to understand multiculturalism is a multi-alien law system and idolatry. Solomon tried it and it destroyed him and destroyed his kingdom. America is trying it and it'll only be by God's grace that we're not destroyed. We may be getting over the woke religion, the day religion, D.E.I., not D.A.Y., but one thing for sure, there are alien law systems, alien religions, that are doing everything they can to take over not just our country, but our states, our governments, our society, our churches. And you'd be absolutely surprised to learn the number of Baptist churches that have been taken over by Muslims. In fact, I know of one that was taken over by Muslims back in the 1970s in Greenville, South Carolina.

[John Weaver] And from thence it's grown by leaps and bounds. God's law is still supreme and sovereign and he still demands submission and subjection to his law. And to despise the law of God is to despise the God who gave the law. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we bow to thee. We ask you for your grace and mercy. Help us to see, Lord, what happened to Solomon, what happened to those people during the times of Ezra and Nehemiah. And Lord, help us to see what is happening in our own country. Open our eyes, open our understanding, quicken us, Lord, turn us. Give us your grace and your mercy, we pray in Christ's name. Amen.

Alien Law Systems - Part 1

John Weaver | SermonAudio

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Speaker	John Weaver
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Subject	Biblical Law
Course	Alien Law Systems
Genre	Sermon
Date	2025-12-07
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Book	Book 007: Alien Law Systems: A Three-Part Study — Chapter 1
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Introduction: The Lord as Judge, Lawgiver, and King

Weaver reads Isaiah 33:22 and connects it to his previous messages on Solomon, introducing the topic of alien law systems.

All right, let's open our Bible today to Isaiah 33 and verse 22. Isaiah 33 and verse 22. And I hope you will be able to see the connection with what I've been teaching for the last three weeks. But look, if you would, please, Isaiah 33 and verse 22. The scripture says,

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 33:22

"For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. And the Lord is our King. He will save us."

Now, I hope you remember that.

The first message I dealt with on Solomon, 1 Kings 11, was losing your wisdom and losing your mind. In the second and the third message dealt with the dangers of old age, basically from the same text. Although I've used a different text today, I want to continue this to show you what was actually happening in 1 Kings chapter 11. So this is going to be the first of three messages, which I'm going to be dealing with the title "Alien Law Systems." Alien Law Systems. So if you'll notice our text again in Isaiah 33 and verse 22, "For the Lord is our judge," that is, He is the judicial system. "The Lord is our lawgiver."

The Principle: A King Rules by His Law

Weaver states that a king rules by his law, applying this to God and human governments, and notes how political parties dismantle each other's work based on their beliefs.

Now, many historians believe that we derive the three branches of our government from this particular text. So here's a principle that I want us to grasp at the very outset. This principle you need to keep in mind, especially during the next two messages as well. But here it is: A king rules by his law. That stands true with God and man as well. So although we do not supposedly have kings in America, we do have presidents. And we do have political parties. And I don't know if you've noticed or not, but when Joe Biden was placed in office, he immediately began to dismantle everything that Trump had accomplished, whether it was good or whether it was bad, it's immaterial. And then when Trump got back in office, he immediately tried to dismantle everything that Biden had done or those who took over for Biden had accomplished during those four years.

So, is politics plain and simple? Why? And the answer is because each one believes that their views are right, their religion is right, their interpretation of everything is correct, and they're going to push that above any and everything else.

The Lawful Use of the Law vs. Justification

Weaver explains that believers are not under the law for justification but for sanctification, clarifying that 'not under the law' does not mean the law is abolished.

Now, God has ordained that His law be supreme and sovereign. God ordained Israel as they went into Canaan land to disestablish all of these pagan religions and throw down all of the altars. God actually forbade the worship of false gods. Now, you're going to ask, I would hope you would ask, why did He forbid that? Well, it is true that God is not going to share His glory, and it is true that one of God's names is Jealous in the Bible, but there is another reason that God forbade the worship of false gods. So let me ask you this. Have you ever contemplated why God has actually demanded faithfulness to His law, faithfulness to His commandments? Let me ask this another way. Have you ever contemplated why Jesus Christ was not only made of one, but the Bible also says made under the law?

Galatians 4 verses 4 and 5: "But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law," and then he goes on to say, "to redeem them that were under the law." So Jesus Christ had to come and submit to the law of God and keep the law perfectly in every detail in order to work out an absolute perfect righteousness. Now, there are two phrases in the Bible, especially in the New Testament, that I believe that are very much abused. They're taken out of context. They're misinterpreted. They're misapplied. And those two phrases are that we are not under the law and or that we are dead to the law. Interestingly enough, many people interpret those two phrases to mean that God's law has been abrogated, nullified, and set aside. And yet the Bible says in Romans 6 in verse 14, listen carefully now, "For sin shall not have dominion over you for you're not under the law but under grace." Now if someone says, "Well there it is, we're not under the law, the law's been done away with."

No, if you read the context, the Apostle Paul of course is talking about justification. And, of course, he's saying that we're not under the law as a means of justification. No one has ever been saved by keeping the law. The law was never ever given for the means of justification. So he says we're not under the law as a means of justification, but we are certainly under grace. Now, clearly, no one could ever be justified by the law because the law demands a personal obedience, a perfect obedience, and a perpetual obedience. So even if you were made absolutely perfect today and you never ever broke God's law again, period, internally or externally, and you were perfect now from this moment to the day and the time and the minute that you die, what about all of those times before you became perfect?

Those are still sinful and they would still have to be taken care of. Now, I want you to turn in your Bibles, you can hold Isaiah, but turn in your Bibles to the book of Galatians chapter 3, and let's begin reading there with verse 10. And I want you to notice what he said. Galatians 3, verse 10. The Apostle Paul writes it like this: "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse." So there is a curse attached to the law if you do not render to the law that personal perfect and perpetual obedience. Now watch this. "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse, for it is written, Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them."

So if you're going to keep one point of the law, you have to keep every point of the law, and you have to keep it perfectly, personally, and perpetually. Then he goes on to say in verse 11, "But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident, for the just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith, but the man that doeth them shall live in them." And then he says this, "that Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law," not the law, but the curse of the law, "being made a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree." So once you talk about being under the law and being dead to the law, those two terms do not mean that God's law does not apply. If you interpret "not under the law" and "dead to the law" as meaning God's law has been abrogated, nullified, set aside, done away with, then I've got some very pertinent questions I want to ask you. And I want you to think as I ask these questions. Number one, how do we know that which is sin if we are dead to the law, not under the law, and that means that the law has been abrogated, nullified, or done away with? How do we know that which is sin? If God has destroyed the law, how in the world can we identify sin?

Four Questions for Those Who Say the Law Is Done Away

Weaver poses four questions to challenge the idea that the law is nullified: how do we know sin, does faith replace the law, what is wrong with sin, and how do we know what pleases God?

Now, the Bible says in Romans chapter 3 and verse 20, "Therefore, by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified, for by the law is the knowledge of sin." We know what sin is because God has defined it in His law. Now, I would encourage you to either look at or at least try to remember 1 John 3 and verse 4. It's a very important verse.

Scripture Reading — 1 John 3:4

"Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law. For sin is the transgression of the law."

So sin is when someone transgresses the law. So if I do that which you do not like, if I do that which you do not approve of, if I do that which you think is not something that should be done, that does not make it sin. You may not like what I do, but as long as it is not a violation of the law of God, it is not sin. Now, the Bible tells you in Romans chapter 7 and verse 7, the Apostle Paul said it like this.

"What shall we say then? Is the law sin?" And then he says, "God forbid." And every time you see the term "God forbid," it simply means this: Don't even think that. Don't let that enter into your mind whatsoever. Now listen to what else he said. "What shall we say then, is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law. For the law," he said, "but I had not known lust, except the Lord said thou shalt not covet." In other words, the Apostle Paul saw the spirituality of God's law, and it was God's law who pointed out the fact that he was indeed a sinner.

Now, I want you to turn over in your Bibles to the book of 1 Timothy chapter 1 because there is indeed what I would call a lawful use of the law and an unlawful use of the law. An unlawful use of the law is when you endeavor to be saved by keeping the law. When you think that somehow your good deeds are going to outweigh your bad deeds and that's going to be sufficient. No. Look what he says in 1 Timothy chapter 1 verse 8. "But we know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully. Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless, a disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and for vain, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons,

and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine." Now, if we took the time, we could go through those verses and pick out every one of the Ten Commandments. Now, the law was never ever given for justification. So let me say that again. That is an unlawful use of the law. One of the reasons God gave the law, not all the reasons, but one of the reasons is, of course, for the revelation of sin, that we might understand what sin really is.

Now, I want you to note what he said in verse 8. "For we know that the law is good." Now, the word "good" in the Greek is the word kalos, which means beautiful, handsome, excellent, imminent, choice, magnificent, genuine, approved, and that which is excellent. So, if the law has been negated, if the law has been done away with, how in the world do we know what sin is? Because sin is defined by the law. Here's the second question. You say, "But Pastor, now we have faith." Well, my question would be this. Does faith replace God's law?

And the answer, of course, is no. If you look in your Bibles to the book of Romans, Chapter 3, at verses 30 and 31. Romans, Chapter 3, verses 30 and 31. Look at this. The Word of God says,

Scripture Reading — Romans 3:30-31

"Seeing it as one God which shall justify the circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith, do we then make void the law through faith?"

Here's that term again, "God forbid." Don't even think that. Don't even let it enter into your mind. He says, "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid, yea, we establish the law." Now the word "establish" is the word systemi in the Greek and it literally means to cause to stand, to establish, to stand in place and to make firm. So he says faith does not negate the law of God, it establishes God's law. Now if you will turn back in your Bibles to the book of Matthew chapter 5 and look if you would please at verse 17. Matthew chapter 5 and verse 17. Our Lord is teaching on the Sermon on the Mount, and look what He says, if you would please, in verse 17 of Matthew chapter 5.

Note what He said. "Think not that I am come to destroy the law of the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." Now, if you try to tell me that Jesus Christ destroyed the law, then you'd have to say, based upon this text, He also destroyed the prophets, which is not so. But He says, "Think not" again, don't even let this enter your mind. "Think not that I've come to destroy the law or the prophets. I've not come to destroy, but to fulfill." Now, there are two words that are very important in this verse, and those two words are "destroy" and "fulfill." So the word "destroy" in the Greek is the word kataluo. And it literally means destroy, to overthrow,

to dissolve, to abrogate, to demolish, to nullify, to dismantle and subvert. He says, don't even let that enter your mind. "Don't think that I've come to destroy the law or the prophets." He said, "I'm not come to destroy, but to fulfill." Now, the word "fulfill" is the Greek word plerao. And it literally means to make full, to cause to abound, to render perfect and to put into full force as continuous. So clearly then, faith does not negate the law of God. Here's the third question I would ask you. If the law is negated and done away with, what is wrong with sin? You say, "Well, it's just wrong." Upon what basis would you say that it's wrong? So suppose I took a pistol then and went to everyone in this room and robbed you and took everything that you had and you tried to tell me it's wrong. Upon what basis would it be wrong if the law has been nullified? Here's another question. Upon what basis is God going to judge? Because God has a standard. That standard is His law. And if you're going to say the law's been done away with, then obviously, clearly, something is wrong, because there'd be no basis for God to judge.

The Bible says in Romans chapter 4 and verse 15, listen carefully,

Scripture Reading — Romans 4:15

"because the law worketh wrath, for where no law is, there is no transgression."

So if there is no law, if God's law has been done away with, help yourself to fornication, to murder, theft, lie, fraud. Because if there's no law, there's no sin. So obviously we know that there is sin and God's law does not do away with sin. Here's the fourth question I would ask you. If you think that the law has been done away with, dead to the law and not under the law means that it's been abrogated or set aside. Without the law, how would we know that which is pleasing unto God? And how would we understand sanctification? Have you ever said, "Lord, I want to please you"? Well, how do we know what's pleasing unto God? Well, let me show you.

Look in your Bibles, first of all, to the book of Colossians chapter one. And look, if you would please, at verse 10, Colossians chapter one. Notice if you would please verse 10. Colossians 1 verse 10. The apostle writes

Scripture Reading — Colossians 1:10

"that you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God."

Well, we understand it would be pleasing to God if we were fruitful in every good work, but then you've got to determine what is a good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. Well, what is increasing in the knowledge of God? So, he tells us he wants us to walk pleasing. Now, turn right over to Colossians chapter 3 and verse 20. Colossians 3 and verse 20. Look at this one. "Children, obey your parents in all things for this is well pleasing unto the Lord." Well, what is it that's pleasing unto the Lord? It's obedience. It's submission. It's keeping his commandments. Because the commandment of God is, "Honor thy father and thy mother."

"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right." So we know what sanctification is. We know what pleasing the Lord is because He's giving it to us in His word. If you would turn right on over to the book of First Thessalonians and look in chapter four, beginning there in verse one, look at this one. First Thessalonians four, verse one, Paul writes "Furthermore, then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us, how you ought to walk and to please God."

So you would abound more and more. So he said, we are teaching you how you ought to walk and to please God. Well, watch verse two, "for you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus." Verse three, "for this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication, that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor." So, what is the will of God? How do I walk pleasing? Well, I abstain from fornication and I learn to keep my vessel in sanctification and honor. Let's see now, that brings me to what? "Thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not lust, thou shalt not covet, thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother, and thou shalt have no other gods before me." In other words, keeping God's law then is pleasing unto Him.

Now, if that's not clear enough, if you will turn over in your Bibles to 1 John chapter 3, 1 John chapter 3, look if you would please at verse 22. 1 John 3 verse 22. The Bible said "that whatsoever we ask, we receive of him. Because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight." Well, what is pleasing in his sight? Well, it's obviously keeping his commandments.

The Danger of Idolatry and Unequal Covenants

Weaver uses Exodus 34 and Deuteronomy 7 to show why God forbade idolatry and intermarriage with pagans, emphasizing that pagans have different cultures and objectives.

So I want you to turn back in your Bibles to the book of Exodus chapter 34. Now we actually looked at this passage when I was talking about Solomon and losing your wisdom and losing your mind. But I want you to see it again. Look in Exodus chapter 34 and begin there with verse 12. Look what he said. "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee." So it could be a snare. What kind?

"But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. For thou shalt worship no other god, for the Lord whose name is Jealous is a jealous God, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a-whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods. And one called thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice, and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a-whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a-whoring after their gods." So God says, no, you're not to do this. Now, turn right over to the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 7, and let's begin reading there with verse 1. Deuteronomy 7, verse 1. I'm going to point out the danger here, just momentarily. Deuteronomy chapter 7, look in verse 1. "When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou. And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them, and thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. Why? For they will turn away thy son from following thee, that they may serve other gods. So will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you and destroy thee suddenly."

"But thus shalt thou deal with them, thou shalt destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all the people that are upon the face of the earth." Now, let me just say this very plainly. Pagans, the unsaved, the heathen, however you want to call this, but pagans do not have the same culture, the same faith, the same principles, and the same objectives as those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. And he's saying don't make these covenants. So, let's suppose that Steve is an unsaved man, and I'm a saved man. And Steve and I decide we're going to go in business together. We're going to covenant with each other, and Steve is good at mechanics, and I'm not. I'm going to just run the business. He's going to do the work. Okay? Well, guess what? It's not going to be too long before we have a conflict, because I'm going to want to be closing up, especially on Sunday. He may want to work on Sunday. I want to go to church during certain nights of the week. He doesn't want to go to the church during certain nights of the week. I want to be generous and gracious and help somebody who needs help.

No, no, he's interested in the money. In other words, there's going to be conflicts because we do not have the same faith, we do not have the same culture, we do not have the same objectives. God says do not do this. Now, there's a passage that makes this exceedingly clear. Amos 3, in verse 3, where God asks the question, "Can two walk together except they be agreed?"

Now, I just gave you this illustration when we looked in 1 Kings chapter 11 for three weeks. Solomon married all these pagan women and they ultimately turned away his heart from the one true and living God to their idols.

Five Principles of Law and Religion

Weaver presents five principles: law is religious in origin, the source of law is the god of society, change of law is change of religion, no disestablishment of religion, and no tolerance for another law system.

The law in every culture is religious in origin. There is no such thing as an unreligious law. Law governs man and society, and law is that which determines what is good and evil, right and wrong, righteous and unrighteous. So if you want to study a legal foundation in any culture, you almost always have to study their religion, because their religion is that which dictates their law. So you have to remember that you may have a Christian religion or you may have a secular humanistic religion but the law system is based upon the religion. The law system explains the religion. It backs up the religion. So you may have a Christian religion in a government, or you may have a pagan religion in the government, but it is still religious. So, you try to tell me that, well, we don't really have a religious government today. No, we do have a religious government today. Okay. You cannot, you cannot, you cannot separate government and religion. Here's the second principle. It must be recognized that in any culture, the source of law is the god of that society.

The source of law is the God of that society. So, if you base your actions, your conduct, your behavior upon what you think, your God is your mind. That's rationalism. That's transcendentalism. In other words, if we say that the Supreme Court is the source of our God in America, or is the source of our law in America, then it's our God. If we say that Congress is the source of our law, then it's our God. You see, the Greek word for law is nomos. The Greek word for mind is nous. The Greeks believed that the nomos, the law, came from the mind. So now what you have right here is a marked distinction between God's law and man's law. God's law is divine revelation. Man's law is based upon his own thinking, his own rationalistic thought. By the way, I might point out the fact that the War of Northern Aggression basically came from rationalism and transcendentalism because of those New Englanders who thought that their thinking was correct and over and above the Word of God and hence they were going to enforce their thinking upon the South and upon

any and everyone else. So, no, the source of your law is the God of that society. That is for sure. Now, modern humanism always locates law in the state or in the masses. Here's the third principle. In any society, any change of law is either explicitly or implicitly a change of religion. Whenever you have a shift in the law structure, you have a shift in religion. It may shift from a biblical law system to a secularistic or humanistic law system or some other religious religion, but it is still religious. You cannot have a change of law without having a change of religion.

This is the difference between the Reformation and the Renaissance. When you look at the Reformation, everything was being based upon the Word of God. When you look at the Renaissance, everything was being based upon the mind of man and the way man thought. And years ago I brought a message on the historical and biblical significance of the beard. And I pointed out that during the Reformation, men always had short hair and beards. During the Renaissance, men were always clean-shaven, had long hair, and looked like a woman. The difference is, based upon God's law in the Reformation, and man's law in the Renaissance. Now, everything has changed in this country. I hear this regularly, and I would say this, anyone at least my age and older are always asking this question. What happened to the country in which I grew up? You stop and think about that question. What happened to the normal, sane, friendly, and helpful society in which we were raised even 70 years ago?

And now everybody's pushing people in front of a train, shooting people they've never seen, never understood, never heard about, just shooting into crowds, shooting into buildings, shooting into homes. What happened? Well, there's a shift from biblical law to humanistic law. Anytime you have a shift in law, you have a shift in religion. So I can say it like this. This is not your grandfather's America. It's totally different. It's totally different. Here's the fourth principle. There can be no disestablishment of religion in any society.

Now you can disestablish a church and religion can be supplanted by another religion. Now you do not have to have a state church or national church like England does. England has the Anglican Church. But just because we do not have a state church or national church does not mean that we do not have a religious establishment in this country. So what happens is this, the Christian theism, the biblical worldview, has been supplanted by a humanistic and secularistic worldview.

So, if you want to verify what I'm saying, I want you to look at the legal systems and the religions of the pagan countries. Think about this. The Roman Catholic countries have a different law system than we have. The Islamic countries have a different law system than we have. The Hindu nations have a different law system than we have. The Buddhist nations have a different law system than we have. Why? Because your religion determines your law system. It's just that simple. So, you cannot have a change in a legal system or a law system unless you have a change in religion.

I'll say this another way. You cannot even have a change in culture unless you have a change in religion. So your cultural changes and your legal changes are always preceded by a change in religion. That is why these things change.

Now, for instance, look at the state of Michigan. Look at Minnesota. Look at what is happening in Texas, or at least parts of these states, because now the Muslims have taken over and they are now having Sharia courts. Michigan even has a Muslim police force with Arabic patches. So does Minnesota, which I'm going to explain just a little bit later. So let me give you some very important quotes. I want you to listen to these quotes. In fact, I will give you more next week, but I want you to listen to these.

Islam as an Alien Law System

Weaver provides quotes and examples showing Islam's goal of conquest and imposition of Sharia law, illustrating the danger of tolerating alien law systems.

And these are not mine. I did not make these up. Okay, here we go. Muslims, most of them are said by Muslims themselves, Muslims are not coming to assimilate. They're coming to conquer. With surging demands for Sharia courts and public displays of Islamic supremacy that clash with Western freedoms, Islam's core tenets foster conquest, not coexistence. Here's another one from Anima. "Blow up, burn, shoot, slaughter with knives, crush with buses, break into their homes, kill them, punish them by any means." ISIS's explicit orders from al-Nabawi to target Christians demand action to defend Western faith and security now.

That was put out by al-Nabawi. Here, how about this one? It is October the 31st, just a few days ago, 2025 Friday Sermon at the Islamic Center of Kansas in Olathe, Mohammed Tarif urged his fellow Muslims to destroy the criminal Zionists and those who helped them and armed them and normalized them. He added, "Count them, kill them one by one, do not spare a single one of them." And even in Michigan has a message for Americans. Here's what he said. "You Americans are the ignorant. The last hope for America is Islam. We are leaders of the world, the masters and the teachers. We will bring Sharia and spices to the white man's unseasoned chicken." Wow. So here's what I'm trying to tell you. If Christianity is overthrown, it will not be the end of religion. Christianity will just be supplanted either by Islam or by secularism or humanism. You cannot disestablish a religion because all you're doing is leading one religion for another religion. And each religion has its own particular law system. Now, here's the fifth point. Listen carefully. There can be no tolerance in a law system for another religion or law system. The reason you cannot have another tolerance is because you're letting something contrary to you come in to undermine everything that you believe. I want you to listen to this quote. I'm going to give it again before I close today. Watch this.

Toleration is a device used to introduce a new system as a prelude to a new intoleration. Wow! Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law system as a prelude to a new intolerance. Let me ask you a question. If Islam took over America tomorrow, do you think we would maintain our law system? Do you think we'd maintain our freedoms? No. Absolutely not. Because with Islamic religion comes Sharia law. And you cannot disestablish Sharia law without disestablishing Islam. So when you allow alien law systems into your culture, into your society, you're allowing an alien religion. And what you're doing is basically committing suicide slowly. You're actually killing yourself. Every system, every law system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law system and the alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide.

Now, I want to give you another quote. Some of you may have seen this. There is a Somali sheriff in Minnesota. You can see it on the internet. He says he serves Somalis first. His words will shock you if you watch the video and if you listen. And here's what I printed off from the article. Picture this: a sheriff in uniform standing in front of a Somali flag telling his audience that as Somali police officers we work for you, that is the Somalis. That's not a scene from Mogadishu, it's from Minnesota where a local sheriff just admitted on camera that his loyalty is not to the American taxpayers footing his bill but to his ethnic enclave. The video shows the sheriff speaking in Somali at a community event with English subtitles, making the punch land hard. At the 24-second mark, he says, "That's why we're different from foreigners," referring to native Minnesotan officers he called the Americans foreigners. Let that sink in. I know everyone has heard about the great fraud in Minnesota. I just read this week, instead of them defrauding taxpayers out of $1 billion, it's now probably $8 billion.

And it's being sent back to Somalia to support the terrorists. Gabriel, a Lebanese Christian who fled Islamic militias, said this, "Islam is the political ideology of conquest. They come not to integrate, but to dominate." And then this was stated. Polls bear this out. Pew's 2016 data shows 40% of European Muslims favor Sharia with support for suicide bombings against civilians. A few more quotes. "Islam is incompatible with Western civilization."

"They aim to conquer and they want you to know that. They're coming to promote their own culture. Most want to impose Sharia and build their caliphate. Muslims aren't flocking to the West to integrate but to conquer." Now I want you to listen carefully to this quote. "Muslim Brotherhood declares they'll impose Sharia law in America through the ballot box or the bullet. There is no in between." So they're literally saying they're going to take over our country either through elections or through murder.

So Islam is really a national security threat. They're talking about taking over. So let me give it to you like this. The word Islam means submission to Allah. And a Muslim is one who is submitted to Allah. You heard it said that Islam is the religion of peace. Well it is. But it's just the definition of Islamic peace that differs from our definition of peace. Peace to us is when you and I get along.

Conclusion: Toleration Leads to Suicide

Weaver warns that toleration of alien law systems is a prelude to intolerance and suicide for a society, urging submission to God's law.

When we're not trying to rule over each other. We're not trying to antagonize each other. We're not trying to, you know, defraud. We're just cooperating. We're working together. We're happy as the Lord. That's our definition of peace normally. I'm not talking about religious peace or biblical peace. I'm just talking about getting along. Well, the Islamic definition of peace is different. In Islam peace is when everyone is submitted to Allah and world peace is when the world is conquered by Islam and everyone submits to Allah. So let me say this again: toleration is a device that always allows a new religion or a new law system to sneak in and then it is a prelude to a new intolerance. Because when the other legal system or religion takes over, it is going to defend itself and become intolerant to any and everything else. And when we tolerate that which is contrary to God and contrary to His law, it is suicide. Now, Lord willing, next week I'm going to show you where God demands one law and I'm going to show you why, Lord willing.

Toleration is what you and I cannot afford. Toleration not only allows alien law systems to multiply and take over, and we're going to learn, if we have not already, that forsaking God's law and God's law system has grave consequences. I want you to understand multiculturalism is a multi-alien law system and idolatry. Solomon tried it and it destroyed him and destroyed his kingdom. America is trying it and it'll only be by God's grace that we're not destroyed. We may be getting over the woke religion, the DEI religion, D.E.I., not D.A.Y., but one thing for sure, there are alien law systems, alien religions, that are doing everything they can to take over not just our country, but our states, our governments, our society, our churches. And you'd be absolutely surprised to learn the number of Baptist churches that have been taken over by Muslims. In fact, I know of one that was taken over by Muslims back in the 1970s in Greenville, South Carolina.

And from thence it's grown by leaps and bounds. God's law is still supreme and sovereign and He still demands submission and subjection to His law. And to despise the law of God is to despise the God who gave the law. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we bow to Thee. We ask You for Your grace and mercy. Help us to see, Lord, what happened to Solomon, what happened to those people during the times of Ezra and Nehemiah. And Lord, help us to see what is happening in our own country. Open our eyes, open our understanding, quicken us, Lord, turn us. Give us Your grace and Your mercy, we pray in Christ's name. Amen.

Study Guide

Major Themes

The Continuing Validity of God's Law

Summary: God's law is not abolished but remains the standard for sanctification and knowing sin; 'not under the law' refers to justification, not the law's existence.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'we are not under the law as a means of justification. We are under the law as a means of sanctification' and cites Romans 3:31, 'do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid, yea, we establish the law.'

Law Is Religious in Origin

Summary: Every legal system is based on a religion; the source of law is the god of that society, whether the God of the Bible or human reason.

Evidence: Weaver states, 'The law in every culture is religious in origin. There is no such thing as an unreligious law.'

The Danger of Toleration

Summary: Toleration of alien law systems is a device that introduces a new system as a prelude to intolerance, leading to the suicide of the existing system.

Evidence: Weaver quotes, 'Toleration is a device used to introduce a new system as a prelude to a new intoleration' and says, 'when you allow alien law systems into your culture... you're basically committing suicide slowly.'

Idolatry Introduces Alien Law Systems

Summary: Solomon's idolatry brought alien law systems into Israel, destroying him and his kingdom; America faces the same danger through multiculturalism.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'Solomon tried it and it destroyed him and destroyed his kingdom. America is trying it and it'll only be by God's grace that we're not destroyed.'

Islam as a Conquering Ideology

Summary: Islam is presented as a political ideology of conquest that seeks to impose Sharia law, incompatible with Western civilization.

Evidence: Weaver quotes, 'Islam is the political ideology of conquest. They come not to integrate, but to dominate' and cites polls showing support for Sharia.

Key Arguments

The law was never given for justification

Summary: The law demands perfect, personal, perpetual obedience; no one can be justified by it. Faith does not nullify the law but establishes it.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'No one has ever been saved by keeping the law. The law was never ever given for the means of justification.'

Despising God's law is despising God

Summary: David's sin is described as despising God's commandment, which is equated with despising God Himself.

Evidence: Weaver reads 2 Samuel 12:9-10: 'Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord... because thou hast despised me.'

Change of law is change of religion

Summary: Any shift in law reflects a shift in religion; the Reformation and Renaissance illustrate the difference between biblical and humanistic law.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'In any society, any change of law is either explicitly or implicitly a change of religion.'

No disestablishment of religion

Summary: You cannot remove religion from society; you can only replace one religion with another, each with its own law system.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'There can be no disestablishment of religion in any society. Now you can disestablish a church and religion can be supplanted by another religion.'

Toleration is suicide

Summary: Every law system must maintain hostility to alien systems or commit suicide; toleration allows a new system to take over and become intolerant.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'Every system, every law system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law system and the alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide.'

Scripture References

Isaiah 33:22

Context: Weaver reads this verse to introduce the three branches of government: judge, lawgiver, king.

Galatians 4:4-5

Context: Jesus was made under the law to redeem those under the law.

Romans 6:14

Context: We are not under the law but under grace; Weaver explains this refers to justification, not abolition of the law.

Galatians 3:10-13

Context: Those under the works of the law are under a curse; Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law.

Romans 3:20

Context: By the law is the knowledge of sin.

1 John 3:4

Context: Sin is the transgression of the law.

Romans 7:7

Context: Paul says he would not have known sin except through the law.

1 Timothy 1:8-10

Context: The law is good if used lawfully; it is for the lawless and disobedient.

Romans 3:30-31

Context: Faith does not make void the law; we establish the law.

Matthew 5:17

Context: Jesus came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it.

Romans 4:15

Context: Where no law is, there is no transgression.

Colossians 1:10

Context: Walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing.

Colossians 3:20

Context: Children obey your parents, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:1-3

Context: How to walk and please God; abstain from fornication.

1 John 3:22

Context: We keep his commandments and do things pleasing in his sight.

Exodus 34:12-16

Context: God warns Israel not to make covenants with inhabitants or intermarry, lest they turn to idols.

Deuteronomy 7:1-6

Context: Israel is to destroy pagan nations and not intermarry, for they will turn away their hearts.

Amos 3:3

Context: Can two walk together except they be agreed?

2 Samuel 12:9-10

Context: David despised God's commandment, which is equated with despising God.

Isaiah 42:8

Context: God will not share His glory with another.

Historical References

Solomon's idolatry (1 Kings 11)

Context: Weaver references his previous messages on Solomon building altars to Ashtoreth, Moloch, and Chemosh, leading to his downfall.

Ezra and Nehemiah

Context: Weaver mentions these books as examples of the danger of intermarriage with pagans.

Reformation vs. Renaissance

Context: Weaver contrasts the Reformation (based on God's Word) with the Renaissance (based on man's mind), noting differences in appearance.

War of Northern Aggression (American Civil War)

Context: Weaver attributes the war to rationalism and transcendentalism from New Englanders enforcing their thinking.

Mao Zedong

Context: Weaver quotes Mao: 'Our God is none other than the masses of the Chinese people' as an example of the state as god.

Muslim takeover of a Baptist church in Greenville, SC (1970s)

Context: Weaver mentions a Baptist church taken over by Muslims in the 1970s as an example of Islamic expansion.

Somali sheriff in Minnesota

Context: Weaver describes a Somali sheriff who says he serves Somalis first and calls native Minnesotans 'foreigners.'

Islamic Center of Kansas sermon (October 31, 2025)

Context: Weaver quotes a sermon urging Muslims to kill Zionists and their helpers.

Important Quotes

Toleration is a device used to introduce a new system as a prelude to a new intoleration.

Significance: This quote encapsulates Weaver's argument that tolerating alien law systems leads to the overthrow of the existing system.

The law in every culture is religious in origin. There is no such thing as an unreligious law.

Significance: This is the foundational principle for Weaver's entire message, asserting that all law is based on religion.

Every system, every law system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law system and the alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide.

Significance: Weaver argues that a law system cannot tolerate competing systems without destroying itself.

When you despise God's law, you despise God. You cannot separate God from His law.

Significance: This statement links rejection of God's law directly to rejection of God, using David's sin as an example.

Islam is the political ideology of conquest. They come not to integrate, but to dominate.

Significance: Weaver uses this quote to illustrate the threat of Islam as an alien law system seeking to replace Western law.

Think not that I am come to destroy the law of the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Significance: Weaver cites Jesus' words to argue that the law was not abolished but fulfilled, countering antinomian views.

Discussion Questions

How does understanding that 'a king rules by his law' affect our view of God's authority and human government?

Context: Weaver introduces this principle early in the message.

In what ways do Christians sometimes misuse the phrases 'not under the law' and 'dead to the law'?

Context: Weaver discusses the common misinterpretation of these phrases.

Why is it impossible to separate God from His law, and what are the implications for our obedience?

Context: Weaver uses David's sin to show that despising the law is despising God.

How does the principle 'the source of law is the god of that society' explain the cultural changes in America?

Context: Weaver explains that a change in law reflects a change in religion.

What are the dangers of tolerating alien law systems within a society, according to Weaver?

Context: Weaver argues that toleration leads to the suicide of the existing system.

How should Christians respond to the presence of alien religions and law systems in their communities?

Context: Weaver warns against toleration and calls for submission to God's law.

Applications

Submit to God's law as the standard for sanctification

Summary: Believers should recognize that God's law is not abolished but is the guide for holy living, pleasing to God.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'we are under the law as a means of sanctification' and cites 1 John 3:22 about keeping commandments.

Avoid unequal covenants with unbelievers

Summary: Christians should be cautious about entering partnerships or marriages with those who do not share the same faith and objectives.

Evidence: Weaver uses the illustration of a business partnership with an unsaved person leading to conflicts.

Recognize the religious nature of all law systems

Summary: Understand that every law system is based on a religion, and evaluate cultural changes in light of this principle.

Evidence: Weaver states, 'The law in every culture is religious in origin.'

Do not tolerate alien law systems that oppose God's law

Summary: Christians should not support or tolerate legal systems that are hostile to biblical law, as this leads to societal suicide.

Evidence: Weaver says, 'when you allow alien law systems into your culture... you're basically committing suicide slowly.'

Despising God's law is despising God

Summary: Recognize that rejecting God's commandments is a personal rejection of God, and repent of any such attitude.

Evidence: Weaver points to 2 Samuel 12:9-10 where David's sin is called despising God.

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Alien Law Systems - Part 1

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All right, let's open our Bible today to Isaiah 33 and verse 22. Isaiah 33 and verse 22. And I hope you will be able to see the connection with what I've been teaching for the last three weeks. But look, if you would, please, Isaiah 33 and verse 22. The scripture says, "For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. And the Lord is our King. He will save us." Now, I hope you remember that.
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The first message I dealt with on Solomon, 1 Kings 11, was losing your wisdom and losing your mind. In the second and the third message dealt with the dangers of old age, basically from the same text. Although I've used a different text today, I want to continue this to show you what was actually happening in 1 Kings chapter 11. So this is going to be the first of three messages, which I'm going to be dealing with the title "Alien Law Systems." Alien Law Systems. So if you'll notice our text again in Isaiah 33 and verse 22, "For the Lord is our judge," that is, He is the judicial system. "The Lord is our lawgiver."
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He is the legislative branch as well. "The Lord is our king." He's the executive branch. "He will save us."
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Now, many historians believe that we derive the three branches of our government from this particular text. So here's a principle that I want us to grasp at the very outset. This principle you need to keep in mind, especially during the next two messages as well. But here it is: A king rules by his law. That stands true with God and man as well. So although we do not supposedly have kings in America, we do have presidents.
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And we do have political parties. And I don't know if you've noticed or not, but when Joe Biden was placed in office, he immediately began to dismantle everything that Trump had accomplished, whether it was good or whether it was bad, it's immaterial. And then when Trump got back in office, he immediately tried to dismantle everything that Biden had done or those who took over for Biden had accomplished during those four years.
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So, is politics plain and simple? Why? And the answer is because each one believes that their views are right, their religion is right, their interpretation of everything is correct, and they're going to push that above any and everything else.
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Now, God has ordained that His law be supreme and sovereign. God ordained Israel as they went into Canaan land to disestablish all of these pagan religions and throw down all of the altars. God actually forbade the worship of false gods.
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Now, you're going to ask, I would hope you would ask, why did He forbid that? Well, it is true that God is not going to share His glory, and it is true that one of God's names is Jealous in the Bible, but there is another reason that God forbade the worship of false gods. So let me ask you this. Have you ever contemplated why God has actually demanded faithfulness to His law, faithfulness to His commandments? Let me ask this another way. Have you ever contemplated why Jesus Christ was not only made of one, but the Bible also says made under the law?
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Galatians 4 verses 4 and 5: "But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law," and then he goes on to say, "to redeem them that were under the law." So Jesus Christ had to come and submit to the law of God and keep the law perfectly in every detail in order to work out an absolute perfect righteousness.
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Now, there are two phrases in the Bible, especially in the New Testament, that I believe that are very much abused. They're taken out of context. They're misinterpreted. They're misapplied. And those two phrases are that we are not under the law and or that we are dead to the law. Interestingly enough, many people interpret those two phrases to mean that God's law has been abrogated, nullified, and set aside. And yet the Bible says in Romans 6 in verse 14, listen carefully now, "For sin shall not have dominion over you for you're not under the law but under grace." Now if someone says, "Well there it is, we're not under the law, the law's been done away with."
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No, if you read the context, the Apostle Paul of course is talking about justification. And, of course, he's saying that we're not under the law as a means of justification. No one has ever been saved by keeping the law. The law was never ever given for the means of justification. So he says we're not under the law as a means of justification, but we are certainly under grace. Now, clearly, no one could ever be justified by the law because the law demands a personal obedience, a perfect obedience, and a perpetual obedience. So even if you were made absolutely perfect today and you never ever broke God's law again, period, internally or externally, and you were perfect now from this moment to the day and the time and the minute that you die, what about all of those times before you became perfect?
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Those are still sinful and they would still have to be taken care of. Now, I want you to turn in your Bibles, you can hold Isaiah, but turn in your Bibles to the book of Galatians chapter 3, and let's begin reading there with verse 10. And I want you to notice what he said. Galatians 3, verse 10. The Apostle Paul writes it like this: "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse." So there is a curse attached to the law if you do not render to the law that personal perfect and perpetual obedience. Now watch this. "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse, for it is written, Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them."
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So if you're going to keep one point of the law, you have to keep every point of the law, and you have to keep it perfectly, personally, and perpetually. Then he goes on to say in verse 11, "But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident, for the just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith, but the man that doeth them shall live in them." And then he says this, "that Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law," not the law, but the curse of the law, "being made a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree."
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So once you talk about being under the law and being dead to the law, those two terms do not mean that God's law does not apply. If you interpret "not under the law" and "dead to the law" as meaning God's law has been abrogated, nullified, set aside, done away with, then I've got some very pertinent questions I want to ask you. And I want you to think as I ask these questions. Number one, how do we know that which is sin if we are dead to the law, not under the law, and that means that the law has been abrogated, nullified, or done away with? How do we know that which is sin? If God has destroyed the law, how in the world can we identify sin?
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Now, the Bible says in Romans chapter 3 and verse 20, "Therefore, by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified, for by the law is the knowledge of sin." We know what sin is because God has defined it in His law.
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Now, I would encourage you to either look at or at least try to remember 1 John 3 and verse 4. It's a very important verse. "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law. For sin is the transgression of the law." So sin is when someone transgresses the law. So if I do that which you do not like, if I do that which you do not approve of, if I do that which you think is not something that should be done, that does not make it sin. You may not like what I do, but as long as it is not a violation of the law of God, it is not sin. Now, the Bible tells you in Romans chapter 7 and verse 7, the Apostle Paul said it like this.
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"What shall we say then? Is the law sin?" And then he says, "God forbid." And every time you see the term "God forbid," it simply means this: Don't even think that. Don't let that enter into your mind whatsoever.
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Now listen to what else he said. "What shall we say then, is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law. For the law," he said, "but I had not known lust, except the Lord said thou shalt not covet." In other words, the Apostle Paul saw the spirituality of God's law, and it was God's law who pointed out the fact that he was indeed a sinner.
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Now, I want you to turn over in your Bibles to the book of 1 Timothy chapter 1 because there is indeed what I would call a lawful use of the law and an unlawful use of the law. An unlawful use of the law is when you endeavor to be saved by keeping the law. When you think that somehow your good deeds are going to outweigh your bad deeds and that's going to be sufficient. No. Look what he says in 1 Timothy chapter 1 verse 8. "But we know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully. Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless, a disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and for vain, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons,
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and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine." Now, if we took the time, we could go through those verses and pick out every one of the Ten Commandments.
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Now, the law was never ever given for justification. So let me say that again. That is an unlawful use of the law. One of the reasons God gave the law, not all the reasons, but one of the reasons is, of course, for the revelation of sin, that we might understand what sin really is.
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Now, I want you to note what he said in verse 8. "For we know that the law is good."
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Now, the word "good" in the Greek is the word kalos, which means beautiful, handsome, excellent, imminent, choice, magnificent, genuine, approved, and that which is excellent. So, if the law has been negated, if the law has been done away with, how in the world do we know what sin is? Because sin is defined by the law. Here's the second question. You say, "But Pastor, now we have faith." Well, my question would be this. Does faith replace God's law?
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And the answer, of course, is no. If you look in your Bibles to the book of Romans, Chapter 3, at verses 30 and 31. Romans, Chapter 3, verses 30 and 31. Look at this. The Word of God says, "Seeing it as one God which shall justify the circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith, do we then make void the law through faith?" Here's that term again, "God forbid." Don't even think that. Don't even let it enter into your mind. He says, "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid, yea, we establish the law." Now the word "establish" is the word systemi in the Greek and it literally means to cause to stand, to establish, to stand in place and to make firm. So he says faith does not negate the law of God, it establishes God's law. Now if you will turn back in your Bibles to the book of Matthew chapter 5 and look if you would please at verse 17. Matthew chapter 5 and verse 17. Our Lord is teaching on the Sermon on the Mount, and look what He says, if you would please, in verse 17 of Matthew chapter 5.
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Note what He said. "Think not that I am come to destroy the law of the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." Now, if you try to tell me that Jesus Christ destroyed the law, then you'd have to say, based upon this text, He also destroyed the prophets, which is not so. But He says, "Think not" again, don't even let this enter your mind. "Think not that I've come to destroy the law or the prophets. I've not come to destroy, but to fulfill." Now, there are two words that are very important in this verse, and those two words are "destroy" and "fulfill." So the word "destroy" in the Greek is the word kataluo. And it literally means destroy, to overthrow,
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to dissolve, to abrogate, to demolish, to nullify, to dismantle and subvert. He says, don't even let that enter your mind. "Don't think that I've come to destroy the law or the prophets." He said, "I'm not come to destroy, but to fulfill." Now, the word "fulfill" is the Greek word plerao. And it literally means to make full, to cause to abound, to render perfect and to put into full force as continuous. So clearly then, faith does not negate the law of God.
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Here's the third question I would ask you. If the law is negated and done away with, what is wrong with sin? You say, "Well, it's just wrong." Upon what basis would you say that it's wrong? So suppose I took a pistol then and went to everyone in this room and robbed you and took everything that you had and you tried to tell me it's wrong. Upon what basis would it be wrong if the law has been nullified? Here's another question. Upon what basis is God going to judge? Because God has a standard. That standard is His law. And if you're going to say the law's been done away with, then obviously, clearly, something is wrong, because there'd be no basis for God to judge.
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The Bible says in Romans chapter 4 and verse 15, listen carefully, "because the law worketh wrath, for where no law is, there is no transgression." So if there is no law, if God's law has been done away with, help yourself to fornication, to murder, theft, lie, fraud. Because if there's no law, there's no sin. So obviously we know that there is sin and God's law does not do away with sin.
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Here's the fourth question I would ask you. If you think that the law has been done away with, dead to the law and not under the law means that it's been abrogated or set aside. Without the law, how would we know that which is pleasing unto God? And how would we understand sanctification? Have you ever said, "Lord, I want to please you"? Well, how do we know what's pleasing unto God? Well, let me show you.
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Look in your Bibles, first of all, to the book of Colossians chapter one. And look, if you would please, at verse 10, Colossians chapter one. Notice if you would please verse 10. Colossians 1 verse 10. The apostle writes "that you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God." Well, we understand it would be pleasing to God if we were fruitful in every good work, but then you've got to determine what is a good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. Well, what is increasing in the knowledge of God? So, he tells us he wants us to walk pleasing. Now, turn right over to Colossians chapter 3 and verse 20. Colossians 3 and verse 20. Look at this one. "Children, obey your parents in all things for this is well pleasing unto the Lord." Well, what is it that's pleasing unto the Lord? It's obedience. It's submission. It's keeping his commandments. Because the commandment of God is, "Honor thy father and thy mother."
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"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right." So we know what sanctification is. We know what pleasing the Lord is because He's giving it to us in His word. If you would turn right on over to the book of First Thessalonians and look in chapter four, beginning there in verse one, look at this one. First Thessalonians four, verse one, Paul writes "Furthermore, then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us, how you ought to walk and to please God."
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So you would abound more and more. So he said, we are teaching you how you ought to walk and to please God. Well, watch verse two, "for you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus." Verse three, "for this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication, that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor." So, what is the will of God? How do I walk pleasing? Well, I abstain from fornication and I learn to keep my vessel in sanctification and honor.
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Let's see now, that brings me to what? "Thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not lust, thou shalt not covet, thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother, and thou shalt have no other gods before me." In other words, keeping God's law then is pleasing unto Him.
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Now, if that's not clear enough, if you will turn over in your Bibles to 1 John chapter 3, 1 John chapter 3, look if you would please at verse 22. 1 John 3 verse 22. The Bible said "that whatsoever we ask, we receive of him. Because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight." Well, what is pleasing in his sight? Well, it's obviously keeping his commandments.
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Now, as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, we are not under the law as a means of justification. We are under the law as a means of sanctification, but not justification. There is no one that can be sanctified, there is no one that can be holy, as long as there are whoremongers and thieves and murderers and liars, and doing everything that is contrary to God. We are dead to the law in the sense that we are dead to the penalty of that law. It is true we broke that law, but we died in Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ came as our sacrifice, as our substitute, as our propitiation, and the fact of the matter is He is our head and we are His body and we actually died in Him and therefore we are dead to the law. The law cannot penalize us, it cannot chastise us because our bill has been paid in full in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what the Bible says in Romans 6 and verse 6, "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin."
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So clearly then God's law is still around and still applicable. Now I was not necessarily going to emphasize all those things but I had to do so in order to get to the body of the message. So you remember Solomon built all these altars and temples to Ashtoreth, to Moloch, and to Chemosh. Have you ever asked yourself, why? Does God forbid idolatry? Obviously, clearly, yes, He is the jealous God and He is the one true and living God. And He said in Isaiah 42 in verse eight, He is not going to share His glory with another. He's not going to give His praise to idols. Clearly, that is true now. But let me show you why God forbade all this idolatry and the intermarriage with idolaters.
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So I want you to turn back in your Bibles to the book of Exodus chapter 34. Now we actually looked at this passage when I was talking about Solomon and losing your wisdom and losing your mind. But I want you to see it again. Look in Exodus chapter 34 and begin there with verse 12. Look what he said. "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee." So it could be a snare. What kind?
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"But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. For thou shalt worship no other god, for the Lord whose name is Jealous is a jealous God, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a-whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods. And one called thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice, and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a-whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a-whoring after their gods." So God says, no, you're not to do this.
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Now, turn right over to the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 7, and let's begin reading there with verse 1. Deuteronomy 7, verse 1. I'm going to point out the danger here, just momentarily. Deuteronomy chapter 7, look in verse 1. "When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou. And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them, and thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. Why? For they will turn away thy son from following thee, that they may serve other gods. So will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you and destroy thee suddenly."
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"But thus shalt thou deal with them, thou shalt destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all the people that are upon the face of the earth."
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Now, let me just say this very plainly. Pagans, the unsaved, the heathen, however you want to call this, but pagans do not have the same culture, the same faith, the same principles, and the same objectives as those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. And he's saying don't make these covenants. So, let's suppose that Steve is an unsaved man, and I'm a saved man. And Steve and I decide we're going to go in business together. We're going to covenant with each other, and Steve is good at mechanics, and I'm not. I'm going to just run the business. He's going to do the work. Okay? Well, guess what? It's not going to be too long before we have a conflict, because I'm going to want to be closing up, especially on Sunday. He may want to work on Sunday. I want to go to church during certain nights of the week. He doesn't want to go to the church during certain nights of the week. I want to be generous and gracious and help somebody who needs help.
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No, no, he's interested in the money. In other words, there's going to be conflicts because we do not have the same faith, we do not have the same culture, we do not have the same objectives. God says do not do this.
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Now, there's a passage that makes this exceedingly clear. Amos 3, in verse 3, where God asks the question, "Can two walk together except they be agreed?"
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Now, I just gave you this illustration when we looked in 1 Kings chapter 11 for three weeks. Solomon married all these pagan women and they ultimately turned away his heart from the one true and living God to their idols.
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Now, all you have to do is also read the book of Ezra and the book of Nehemiah and you'll see this over and over. So let me make this statement that God's law is a revelation of His righteousness. And so there is no ground in scripture for despising God's law. Neither can you relegate law to the Old Testament and grace to the New Testament. When you get to Genesis 6, "But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord." When you get to the New Testament, "Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right."
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"Honor thy father and mother." There's law in the New Testament. There's grace in the Old Testament.
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Now, I've pointed out this truth many times, but let me just nail this one for you. When you despise God's law, you despise God. You cannot separate God from His law. I want you to turn in your Bibles, if you would, to 2 Samuel chapter 12. Everyone in this room is familiar with the sin of David, when he committed adultery with Bathsheba and also when he had Uriah the Hittite murdered with the sword of the children of Ammon. So God is nailing David right now. And I want you to notice what God says to David in verse 9, 2 Samuel chapter 12, verse 9. God asked him, "Wherefore hath thou despised the commandment of the Lord to do evil in his sight? Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with a sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon." So, obviously, David has committed adultery. God has said, "Thou shalt not do so." So he's despised the commandment. God said, "Thou shalt not murder," and yet he's done so.
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He's dishonored his parents. He's broken the first commandment. He's placed himself ahead of God. But note verse 9, "Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of God?" Now look in verse 10.
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"Now therefore the sword shall never depart out of thine house because thou hast despised me that has taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife." Now how did David despise God? And the answer is by despising His commandment. So the rejection of God and His law always results in humanism, subjectivism, idolatry, and tyranny. Even the Greek culture, like all other cultures that rejected God, became humanistic to the core. So, modern humanism is the religion of the state. It's the religion of the nation. It always locates law in the state or in the people of the state. In other words, the people and or the state becomes the God of the system. It was like Mao Zedong when he said, "Our God is none other than the masses of the Chinese people." In other words, we're the source of our law, or the state is the source of our law.
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Now, so you've got to understand clearly then, we have certain things that are just absolutely insane in this land today. Now, so let me just go ahead and make another point here that I think is actually important in the sense that we have to understand, first of all, by the way, when I give you this, years ago I worked my way through The Institutes of Biblical Law by Rushdoony. And I never will forget, on the first page or two, he gave five principles. And they're just as relevant today as they were back then. And if you understand these principles, and I would love for you to understand them, especially in light of the next two messages, you're going to see how applicable everything is that I'm talking about. Because you're going to see, I trust, and I hope, that any time you have an idolatrous religion, you have an alien law system. You have something that is operating contrary to God and His law. So let me give you these five principles. Here's the first one.
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The law in every culture is religious in origin. There is no such thing as an unreligious law. Law governs man and society, and law is that which determines what is good and evil, right and wrong, righteous and unrighteous. So if you want to study a legal foundation in any culture, you almost always have to study their religion, because their religion is that which dictates their law. So you have to remember that you may have a Christian religion or you may have a secular humanistic religion but the law system is based upon the religion. The law system explains the religion. It backs up the religion. So you may have a Christian religion in a government, or you may have a pagan religion in the government, but it is still religious. So, you try to tell me that, well, we don't really have a religious government today. No, we do have a religious government today. Okay. You cannot, you cannot, you cannot separate government and religion. Here's the second principle. It must be recognized that in any culture, the source of law is the god of that society.
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The source of law is the God of that society. So, if you base your actions, your conduct, your behavior upon what you think, your God is your mind. That's rationalism. That's transcendentalism. In other words, if we say that the Supreme Court is the source of our God in America, or is the source of our law in America, then it's our God. If we say that Congress is the source of our law, then it's our God. You see, the Greek word for law is nomos. The Greek word for mind is nous. The Greeks believed that the nomos, the law, came from the mind. So now what you have right here is a marked distinction between God's law and man's law. God's law is divine revelation. Man's law is based upon his own thinking, his own rationalistic thought. By the way, I might point out the fact that the War of Northern Aggression basically came from rationalism and transcendentalism because of those New Englanders who thought that their thinking was correct and over and above the Word of God and hence they were going to enforce their thinking upon the South and upon
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any and everyone else. So, no, the source of your law is the God of that society. That is for sure.
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Now, modern humanism always locates law in the state or in the masses. Here's the third principle. In any society, any change of law is either explicitly or implicitly a change of religion. Whenever you have a shift in the law structure, you have a shift in religion. It may shift from a biblical law system to a secularistic or humanistic law system or some other religious religion, but it is still religious. You cannot have a change of law without having a change of religion.
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This is the difference between the Reformation and the Renaissance. When you look at the Reformation, everything was being based upon the Word of God. When you look at the Renaissance, everything was being based upon the mind of man and the way man thought. And years ago I brought a message on the historical and biblical significance of the beard. And I pointed out that during the Reformation, men always had short hair and beards. During the Renaissance, men were always clean-shaven, had long hair, and looked like a woman. The difference is, based upon God's law in the Reformation, and man's law in the Renaissance. Now, everything has changed in this country. I hear this regularly, and I would say this, anyone at least my age and older are always asking this question. What happened to the country in which I grew up? You stop and think about that question. What happened to the normal, sane, friendly, and helpful society in which we were raised even 70 years ago?
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And now everybody's pushing people in front of a train, shooting people they've never seen, never understood, never heard about, just shooting into crowds, shooting into buildings, shooting into homes. What happened? Well, there's a shift from biblical law to humanistic law. Anytime you have a shift in law, you have a shift in religion. So I can say it like this. This is not your grandfather's America. It's totally different. It's totally different. Here's the fourth principle. There can be no disestablishment of religion in any society.
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Now you can disestablish a church and religion can be supplanted by another religion. Now you do not have to have a state church or national church like England does. England has the Anglican Church. But just because we do not have a state church or national church does not mean that we do not have a religious establishment in this country. So what happens is this, the Christian theism, the biblical worldview, has been supplanted by a humanistic and secularistic worldview.
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So, if you want to verify what I'm saying, I want you to look at the legal systems and the religions of the pagan countries. Think about this. The Roman Catholic countries have a different law system than we have. The Islamic countries have a different law system than we have. The Hindu nations have a different law system than we have. The Buddhist nations have a different law system than we have. Why? Because your religion determines your law system. It's just that simple. So, you cannot have a change in a legal system or a law system unless you have a change in religion.
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I'll say this another way. You cannot even have a change in culture unless you have a change in religion. So your cultural changes and your legal changes are always preceded by a change in religion. That is why these things change.
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Now, for instance, look at the state of Michigan. Look at Minnesota. Look at what is happening in Texas, or at least parts of these states, because now the Muslims have taken over and they are now having Sharia courts. Michigan even has a Muslim police force with Arabic patches. So does Minnesota, which I'm going to explain just a little bit later. So let me give you some very important quotes. I want you to listen to these quotes. In fact, I will give you more next week, but I want you to listen to these.
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And these are not mine. I did not make these up. Okay, here we go. Muslims, most of them are said by Muslims themselves, Muslims are not coming to assimilate. They're coming to conquer. With surging demands for Sharia courts and public displays of Islamic supremacy that clash with Western freedoms, Islam's core tenets foster conquest, not coexistence. Here's another one from Anima. "Blow up, burn, shoot, slaughter with knives, crush with buses, break into their homes, kill them, punish them by any means." ISIS's explicit orders from al-Nabawi to target Christians demand action to defend Western faith and security now.
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That was put out by al-Nabawi. Here, how about this one? It is October the 31st, just a few days ago, 2025 Friday Sermon at the Islamic Center of Kansas in Olathe, Mohammed Tarif urged his fellow Muslims to destroy the criminal Zionists and those who helped them and armed them and normalized them. He added, "Count them, kill them one by one, do not spare a single one of them."
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And even in Michigan has a message for Americans. Here's what he said. "You Americans are the ignorant. The last hope for America is Islam. We are leaders of the world, the masters and the teachers. We will bring Sharia and spices to the white man's unseasoned chicken." Wow. So here's what I'm trying to tell you. If Christianity is overthrown, it will not be the end of religion. Christianity will just be supplanted either by Islam or by secularism or humanism. You cannot disestablish a religion because all you're doing is leading one religion for another religion. And each religion has its own particular law system. Now, here's the fifth point. Listen carefully. There can be no tolerance in a law system for another religion or law system. The reason you cannot have another tolerance is because you're letting something contrary to you come in to undermine everything that you believe. I want you to listen to this quote. I'm going to give it again before I close today. Watch this.
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Toleration is a device used to introduce a new system as a prelude to a new intoleration. Wow! Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law system as a prelude to a new intolerance. Let me ask you a question. If Islam took over America tomorrow, do you think we would maintain our law system? Do you think we'd maintain our freedoms? No. Absolutely not. Because with Islamic religion comes Sharia law. And you cannot disestablish Sharia law without disestablishing Islam. So when you allow alien law systems into your culture, into your society, you're allowing an alien religion. And what you're doing is basically committing suicide slowly. You're actually killing yourself. Every system, every law system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law system and the alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide.
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Now, I want to give you another quote. Some of you may have seen this. There is a Somali sheriff in Minnesota. You can see it on the internet. He says he serves Somalis first. His words will shock you if you watch the video and if you listen. And here's what I printed off from the article. Picture this: a sheriff in uniform standing in front of a Somali flag telling his audience that as Somali police officers we work for you, that is the Somalis. That's not a scene from Mogadishu, it's from Minnesota where a local sheriff just admitted on camera that his loyalty is not to the American taxpayers footing his bill but to his ethnic enclave. The video shows the sheriff speaking in Somali at a community event with English subtitles, making the punch land hard. At the 24-second mark, he says, "That's why we're different from foreigners," referring to native Minnesotan officers he called the Americans foreigners. Let that sink in. I know everyone has heard about the great fraud in Minnesota. I just read this week, instead of them defrauding taxpayers out of $1 billion, it's now probably $8 billion.
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And it's being sent back to Somalia to support the terrorists. Gabriel, a Lebanese Christian who fled Islamic militias, said this, "Islam is the political ideology of conquest. They come not to integrate, but to dominate." And then this was stated. Polls bear this out. Pew's 2016 data shows 40% of European Muslims favor Sharia with support for suicide bombings against civilians. A few more quotes. "Islam is incompatible with Western civilization."
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"They aim to conquer and they want you to know that. They're coming to promote their own culture. Most want to impose Sharia and build their caliphate. Muslims aren't flocking to the West to integrate but to conquer." Now I want you to listen carefully to this quote. "Muslim Brotherhood declares they'll impose Sharia law in America through the ballot box or the bullet. There is no in between." So they're literally saying they're going to take over our country either through elections or through murder.
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So Islam is really a national security threat. They're talking about taking over. So let me give it to you like this. The word Islam means submission to Allah. And a Muslim is one who is submitted to Allah. You heard it said that Islam is the religion of peace. Well it is. But it's just the definition of Islamic peace that differs from our definition of peace. Peace to us is when you and I get along.
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When we're not trying to rule over each other. We're not trying to antagonize each other. We're not trying to, you know, defraud. We're just cooperating. We're working together. We're happy as the Lord. That's our definition of peace normally. I'm not talking about religious peace or biblical peace. I'm just talking about getting along. Well, the Islamic definition of peace is different. In Islam peace is when everyone is submitted to Allah and world peace is when the world is conquered by Islam and everyone submits to Allah. So let me say this again: toleration is a device that always allows a new religion or a new law system to sneak in and then it is a prelude to a new intolerance. Because when the other legal system or religion takes over, it is going to defend itself and become intolerant to any and everything else. And when we tolerate that which is contrary to God and contrary to His law, it is suicide. Now, Lord willing, next week I'm going to show you where God demands one law and I'm going to show you why, Lord willing.
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Toleration is what you and I cannot afford. Toleration not only allows alien law systems to multiply and take over, and we're going to learn, if we have not already, that forsaking God's law and God's law system has grave consequences. I want you to understand multiculturalism is a multi-alien law system and idolatry. Solomon tried it and it destroyed him and destroyed his kingdom. America is trying it and it'll only be by God's grace that we're not destroyed. We may be getting over the woke religion, the DEI religion, D.E.I., not D.A.Y., but one thing for sure, there are alien law systems, alien religions, that are doing everything they can to take over not just our country, but our states, our governments, our society, our churches. And you'd be absolutely surprised to learn the number of Baptist churches that have been taken over by Muslims. In fact, I know of one that was taken over by Muslims back in the 1970s in Greenville, South Carolina.
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And from thence it's grown by leaps and bounds. God's law is still supreme and sovereign and He still demands submission and subjection to His law. And to despise the law of God is to despise the God who gave the law. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we bow to Thee. We ask You for Your grace and mercy. Help us to see, Lord, what happened to Solomon, what happened to those people during the times of Ezra and Nehemiah. And Lord, help us to see what is happening in our own country. Open our eyes, open our understanding, quicken us, Lord, turn us. Give us Your grace and Your mercy, we pray in Christ's name. Amen.
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Alien Law Systems - Part 1

John Weaver | Freedom Ministries

John Weaver introduces the concept of alien law systems, arguing that every law system is religious in origin and that the source of law is the god of that society. He contends that toleration of alien law systems leads to the suicide of the existing system, using Solomon's idolatry and modern Islam as examples. The message emphasizes the continuing validity of God's law for sanctification and the danger of replacing biblical law with humanistic or Islamic law.

Introduction: The Lord as Judge, Lawgiver, and King

Weaver reads Isaiah 33:22 and connects it to his previous messages on Solomon, introducing the topic of alien law systems.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 33:22

"For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. And the Lord is our King. He will save us."

Now, I hope you remember that.

The Principle: A King Rules by His Law

Weaver states that a king rules by his law, applying this to God and human governments, and notes how political parties dismantle each other's work based on their beliefs.

The Lawful Use of the Law vs. Justification

Weaver explains that believers are not under the law for justification but for sanctification, clarifying that 'not under the law' does not mean the law is abolished.

Four Questions for Those Who Say the Law Is Done Away

Weaver poses four questions to challenge the idea that the law is nullified: how do we know sin, does faith replace the law, what is wrong with sin, and how do we know what pleases God?

Scripture Reading — 1 John 3:4

"Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law. For sin is the transgression of the law."

And the answer, of course, is no. If you look in your Bibles to the book of Romans, Chapter 3, at verses 30 and 31. Romans, Chapter 3, verses 30 and 31. Look at this. The Word of God says,

Scripture Reading — Romans 3:30-31

"Seeing it as one God which shall justify the circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith, do we then make void the law through faith?"

The Bible says in Romans chapter 4 and verse 15, listen carefully,

Scripture Reading — Romans 4:15

"because the law worketh wrath, for where no law is, there is no transgression."

Scripture Reading — Colossians 1:10

"that you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God."

The Danger of Idolatry and Unequal Covenants

Weaver uses Exodus 34 and Deuteronomy 7 to show why God forbade idolatry and intermarriage with pagans, emphasizing that pagans have different cultures and objectives.

Five Principles of Law and Religion

Islam as an Alien Law System

Weaver provides quotes and examples showing Islam's goal of conquest and imposition of Sharia law, illustrating the danger of tolerating alien law systems.

Conclusion: Toleration Leads to Suicide

Weaver warns that toleration of alien law systems is a prelude to intolerance and suicide for a society, urging submission to God's law.

Alien Law Systems - Part 1

John Weaver | SermonAudio

Lecture Metadata	Details
Speaker	John Weaver
Source	SermonAudio
Media ID	1222252128304734
Subject	Biblical Law
Course	Alien Law Systems
Genre	Sermon
Date	2025-12-07
Dictation Name
Book	Book 007: Alien Law Systems: A Three-Part Study — Chapter 1
Source Timed Segments	71

Lecture Guide

Outline

Introduction: The Lord as Judge, Lawgiver, and King: Weaver reads Isaiah 33:22 and connects it to his previous messages on Solomon, introducing the topic of alien law systems.
The Principle: A King Rules by His Law: Weaver states that a king rules by his law, applying this to God and human governments, and notes how political parties dismantle each other's work based on their beliefs.
The Lawful Use of the Law vs. Justification: Weaver explains that believers are not under the law for justification but for sanctification, clarifying that 'not under the law' does not mean the law is abolished.
Four Questions for Those Who Say the Law Is Done Away: Weaver poses four questions to challenge the idea that the law is nullified: how do we know sin, does faith replace the law, what is wrong with sin, and how do we know what pleases God?
The Danger of Idolatry and Unequal Covenants: Weaver uses Exodus 34 and Deuteronomy 7 to show why God forbade idolatry and intermarriage with pagans, emphasizing that pagans have different cultures and objectives.
Five Principles of Law and Religion: Weaver presents five principles: law is religious in origin, the source of law is the god of society, change of law is change of religion, no disestablishment of religion, and no tolerance for another law system.
Islam as an Alien Law System: Weaver provides quotes and examples showing Islam's goal of conquest and imposition of Sharia law, illustrating the danger of tolerating alien law systems.
Conclusion: Toleration Leads to Suicide: Weaver warns that toleration of alien law systems is a prelude to intolerance and suicide for a society, urging submission to God's law.

Major Themes

Key Arguments

The law was never given for justification

The law demands perfect, personal, perpetual obedience; no one can be justified by it. Faith does not nullify the law but establishes it.

Weaver says, 'No one has ever been saved by keeping the law. The law was never ever given for the means of justification.'

Despising God's law is despising God

David's sin is described as despising God's commandment, which is equated with despising God Himself.

Weaver reads 2 Samuel 12:9-10: 'Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord... because thou hast despised me.'

Change of law is change of religion

Any shift in law reflects a shift in religion; the Reformation and Renaissance illustrate the difference between biblical and humanistic law.

Weaver says, 'In any society, any change of law is either explicitly or implicitly a change of religion.'

No disestablishment of religion

You cannot remove religion from society; you can only replace one religion with another, each with its own law system.

Weaver says, 'There can be no disestablishment of religion in any society. Now you can disestablish a church and religion can be supplanted by another religion.'

Toleration is suicide

Every law system must maintain hostility to alien systems or commit suicide; toleration allows a new system to take over and become intolerant.

Weaver says, 'Every system, every law system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law system and the alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide.'

Scripture References

Isaiah 33:22: Weaver reads this verse to introduce the three branches of government: judge, lawgiver, king.
Galatians 4:4-5: Jesus was made under the law to redeem those under the law.
Romans 6:14: We are not under the law but under grace; Weaver explains this refers to justification, not abolition of the law.
Galatians 3:10-13: Those under the works of the law are under a curse; Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law.
Romans 3:20: By the law is the knowledge of sin.
1 John 3:4: Sin is the transgression of the law.
Romans 7:7: Paul says he would not have known sin except through the law.
1 Timothy 1:8-10: The law is good if used lawfully; it is for the lawless and disobedient.
Romans 3:30-31: Faith does not make void the law; we establish the law.
Matthew 5:17: Jesus came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it.
Romans 4:15: Where no law is, there is no transgression.
Colossians 1:10: Walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing.
Colossians 3:20: Children obey your parents, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:1-3: How to walk and please God; abstain from fornication.
1 John 3:22: We keep his commandments and do things pleasing in his sight.
Exodus 34:12-16: God warns Israel not to make covenants with inhabitants or intermarry, lest they turn to idols.
Deuteronomy 7:1-6: Israel is to destroy pagan nations and not intermarry, for they will turn away their hearts.
Amos 3:3: Can two walk together except they be agreed?
2 Samuel 12:9-10: David despised God's commandment, which is equated with despising God.
Isaiah 42:8: God will not share His glory with another.

Historical References

Solomon's idolatry (1 Kings 11): Weaver references his previous messages on Solomon building altars to Ashtoreth, Moloch, and Chemosh, leading to his downfall.
Ezra and Nehemiah: Weaver mentions these books as examples of the danger of intermarriage with pagans.
Reformation vs. Renaissance: Weaver contrasts the Reformation (based on God's Word) with the Renaissance (based on man's mind), noting differences in appearance.
War of Northern Aggression (American Civil War): Weaver attributes the war to rationalism and transcendentalism from New Englanders enforcing their thinking.
Mao Zedong: Weaver quotes Mao: 'Our God is none other than the masses of the Chinese people' as an example of the state as god.
Muslim takeover of a Baptist church in Greenville, SC (1970s): Weaver mentions a Baptist church taken over by Muslims in the 1970s as an example of Islamic expansion.
Somali sheriff in Minnesota: Weaver describes a Somali sheriff who says he serves Somalis first and calls native Minnesotans 'foreigners.'
Islamic Center of Kansas sermon (October 31, 2025): Weaver quotes a sermon urging Muslims to kill Zionists and their helpers.

Important Quotes

Toleration is a device used to introduce a new system as a prelude to a new intoleration.

This quote encapsulates Weaver's argument that tolerating alien law systems leads to the overthrow of the existing system.

The law in every culture is religious in origin. There is no such thing as an unreligious law.

This is the foundational principle for Weaver's entire message, asserting that all law is based on religion.

Every system, every law system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law system and the alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide.

Weaver argues that a law system cannot tolerate competing systems without destroying itself.

When you despise God's law, you despise God. You cannot separate God from His law.

This statement links rejection of God's law directly to rejection of God, using David's sin as an example.

Islam is the political ideology of conquest. They come not to integrate, but to dominate.

Weaver uses this quote to illustrate the threat of Islam as an alien law system seeking to replace Western law.

Think not that I am come to destroy the law of the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Weaver cites Jesus' words to argue that the law was not abolished but fulfilled, countering antinomian views.

Discussion Questions

[Question]

How does understanding that 'a king rules by his law' affect our view of God's authority and human government?

[Context]

Weaver introduces this principle early in the message.

[Question]

In what ways do Christians sometimes misuse the phrases 'not under the law' and 'dead to the law'?

[Context]

Weaver discusses the common misinterpretation of these phrases.

[Question]

Why is it impossible to separate God from His law, and what are the implications for our obedience?

[Context]

Weaver uses David's sin to show that despising the law is despising God.

[Question]

How does the principle 'the source of law is the god of that society' explain the cultural changes in America?

[Context]

Weaver explains that a change in law reflects a change in religion.

[Question]

What are the dangers of tolerating alien law systems within a society, according to Weaver?

[Context]

Weaver argues that toleration leads to the suicide of the existing system.

[Question]

How should Christians respond to the presence of alien religions and law systems in their communities?

[Context]

Weaver warns against toleration and calls for submission to God's law.

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