(Ver 1.3)  This is Part 1 in a lesson series about Bible Spiritual Laws created by God.  I use to like to study natural and physical laws found in science when I went to school.  We are surrounded by these natural laws, dominated by these laws and are completely dependent upon them for our continuing existence on this planet.  After studying the Bible for many years, I have realized that God created natural things as patterns for things that are found in the spiritual realm.  Every day we get up and get out of bed and never think about most of these natural laws that rule our lives.  Yet they are affecting what we do and the results that we have regardless of whether we are thinking of them or not.  The laws of motion, the laws of gravity, the laws of thermodynamics and the laws of aerodynamics are just a few of these scientific systems that we depend upon.  God created these natural systems so that we could depend upon and have confidence in them every day by faith.  You may or may not understand how these laws that I just gave you work, but yet you can believe in them and use them to your advantage or your harm depending on what you desire to happen.  For example, if you want to go to California from New York, the law of aerodynamics can help your pilot override the laws of gravity and help you to get you there in a matter of a couple of hours or so by plane.  This is just a small example of how natural laws help us in our everyday lives.

Introduction to Spiritual Laws

Just as there are natural and physical laws that rule and control our outcomes, there are also spiritual laws that control our eternal destiny.   God is a highly organized being of supreme intelligence.  Any organization in order to be organized requires structure and laws and so it is in God’s spiritual Kingdom.  God operates under a set of strict spiritual laws that I would say most Christians do not understand.  Religious minded people like to think that God is omnipotent and that means He can do whatever He wants to, whenever He wants to, to whoever He wants to.  I have no doubt that God is powerful enough and has the capability to do exactly that, however, by reading God’s Word we can discover that God has imposed limitations and constraints upon himself by His own design.  God has transferred spiritual ability, freewill, decision making capabilities, reasoning, thought processes and even authority to the human race.

Spiritual Law 1: The Law of Faith

In order to understand spiritual laws, you must first start by recognizing that there are spiritual laws.  You cannot start to learn about what you do not know, until you learn that these laws exist and then how these spiritual laws govern the things that occur in our world.  Here is a Bible verse that gives us just one spiritual law found in the Bible:

Rom 3:27  Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

God informs us of many of the spiritual laws found in the Bible, but you have to look for them.  This verse tells us that “faith” is a spiritual law.  We can understand that faith is the ability of man to believe something that cannot be confirmed with our natural senses.  For example, to have “faith” in an unseen God.  You have never seen God, but yet believe that He exists.  That is Bible faith!  Faith is the belief of something that cannot be proven in the natural realm.  If you could prove this thing existed, it wouldn’t be faith.  The world likes to say “seeing is believing” but that is not Bible faith and that is not a true statement.  If you can see something you know it exists and you do not have to believe anything.  To know something is true is much different than to believe something is true.  If someone came to me and told me that they saw a man walk on the lake barefooted.  I would have to either choose to believe what they said or you would have to reject what they said, since I did not see it with my own two eyes.  If I chose to believe it, that is putting faith in that person and what they said.

So faith is a spiritual law designed by God to teach us a principle that God thought was very important for us to know.  When Jesus walked the face of the earth, if you were one of those that knew Him, you could see that He appeared to be no different than any other man.  He ate, he slept and he did all of the things that you and I do.  So how did Peter when asked by Jesus “who am I”, know that He was the Son of God?  It had to be by faith.  Sure Peter could see everything that He did and how that Jesus healed the sick and even raised the dead, but that still did not prove that He was God.  Did you ever think about the fact that Judas saw the same things that Peter did and yet turned Jesus into the soldiers to be killed.  How could both men see things so differently, who had witnessed everything that they did?  One chose to believe and the other did not!  Therefore, the law of faith worked for Peter but, Judas chose not to use it.

Spiritual Law 2:  Sin and Death vs. Spirit and Life

Rom 8:2  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Here is another verse found in the Bible that speaks of two spiritual laws that are diametrically opposed to each other.  You might think of these like the laws of aerodynamics vs. the laws of gravity.  The laws of aerodynamics overrule the laws of gravity and thus allows men to fly in airplanes.  Well according to this verse, the spiritual law of Life in Christ Jesus has super ceded the law of sin and death.   These are two scientific principles based upon the natural law of cause and effect.  The result of natural sin is natural death.  We can see this from Genesis 2 where God told Adam don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day you do you will surely die.  The Bible tells us that death entered into the world through the sin of one man, Adam (Rom 5:12).  But, it also tells us that by the obedience of one man, Jesus Christ all those who received it, would be made alive again.  These are two spiritual laws that have different results.  By embracing the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus we have overcome the law of sin and death that was passed upon us by our father Adam.  Our spiritual father Jesus took upon Himself death that we might be a partaker of His life.  That is an awesome trade for us.

Spiritual Law 3: Plant a Seed and Get a Harvest

There are many spiritual laws in the Bible and I cannot go into all of them.  For the sake of understanding I will give you one more example of a spiritual law found in the Bible.  This law governs men and women and their physical destiny almost more than any other that I can think of.  Because, people do not understand spiritual laws, they do not know how they have arrived at and are faced with all of the predicaments that they are presently confronted with.  People tend to believe in luck, either good luck or bad luck has dealt them what they have in their lives.  Other people believe, in the Doris Day religious philosophy “Ka Sa Ra, Whatever will be Will Be!.  Meaning no matter what happens to them it was not caused by anything that they did.  However, God has revealed something else in the Bible that is much more relevant to know than to think that everything that happens to us hass just been our bad luck.

Gal 6:7  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

You see God gives us some very specific instructions in this verse.  Because, He does not want us to be deceived by what happens to us, He tells us clearly a spiritual law that governs our lives.  Sowing and Reaping is a spiritual law found in the Bible from cover to cover.  Just as the Law of Faith occurs in the Bible as a predominate theme and pattern, you can find every spiritual law revealed in every story of the Bible, if you look closely to discover them.  Sowing and reaping is a spiritual law implemented by God and it affects everyone equally, whether they realize it or not.  If you do not understand this spiritual law you need to study about farming concepts.  Farmers understand the law of sowing and reaping.  They plant specific seeds to get specific crops and harvests.  They do not plant corn seed to get cabbage.  They understand that whatever they sow, is exactly what they reap.  This is a spiritual law as well as a natural physical law.

Gen 8:22  While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Written in the Law of God, in this verse in Genesis God is giving us some valuable information.  Many times, God speaks both in natural and spiritual terms in a verse and gives us a  law found in creation.  God informs us as long as the earth is here, we will see a cycle of continuous nights and days and  repeated seasons of warmth and cold.  But, along with this information is another repeated cycle of planting seeds and reaping harvests.  You can understand that God is speaking of how people will physically eat on this planet, but you can also apply this principle to the spiritual life of people. God is informing us how things work and we need to understand it, to be successful.  If you walk around planting seeds of discontent, seeds of discouragement, seeds of gloom, seeds of despair, seeds of evil, hurt, harm, guess what you will reap?  God said he would not be mocked, that a man or a woman would reap exactly what they have sown.  There are just as many ways to sow seed in the spiritual realm, as there are in the natural realm.  So every day you are planting seeds for your tomorrows.  Today you are reaping the harvests of your seeds of yesterdays and the cycle goes on and on.  If you don’t like what you are getting today in life, change what you are planting for your tomorrows.

So I talked about a small number of spiritual laws found in the Bible.  These laws govern and control what you get out of life.  God gives us great information about these laws in the Bible so that we can learn to use them to help us to live life to the fullest.  God gives us a number of great examples in the Bible of people utilizing these laws to achieve great things.   God also gives us examples of people who did not follow these spiritual laws and how they came to a less than admirable ending.  By cooperating with the spiritual laws we are far less likely to fall into something that someone could call just your random bad luck!  God Bless!

If you would like to continue readin about spiritual laws found in the Bible you can continue with “Part 2“.