{"id":18412,"date":"2023-11-11T10:51:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T15:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=18412"},"modified":"2023-11-11T10:51:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T15:51:41","slug":"psalm-197-is-dwelling-on-the-law-good-for-our-spiritual-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/psalm-197-is-dwelling-on-the-law-good-for-our-spiritual-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 19:7 &#8211;  Is dwelling on the law good for our spiritual growth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong> David writes, \u201cO how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day\u201d (Ps. 119:97), and elsewhere, he writes, \u201cHis delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night\u201d (Ps. 1:2). However, Paul states that we are no longer under law (Rom. 6:14; 7:6). Is the law good for our spiritual growth or bad?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Solution:<\/strong> We have already argued elsewhere that the moral law has good uses and bad uses for spiritual growth (see Romans 7:6). However, in addition, we can add that the Hebrew word torah (or \u201claw\u201d) could refer to the moral law or to the Bible. Therefore, the psalmist could be arguing that the Bible itself is a means of growth. The NT also uses \u201cthe law\u201d to refer to the whole Bible (Jn. 10:34). Jesus was quoting Psalm 82:6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: David writes, \u201cO how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day\u201d (Ps. 119:97), and elsewhere, he writes, \u201cHis delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night\u201d (Ps. 1:2). However, Paul states that we are no longer under law (Rom. 6:14; 7:6).Continue reading &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","category-bible-study","category-bible-teaching","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}