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The Institutes of Biblical Law

The Institutes of Biblical Law

By: R. J. Rushdoony
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To attempt to study Scripture without studying its law is to deny it. Join Rousas John Rushdoony as he explains the importance of Biblical law and how it is to be used to guide the lives of men and nations.

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  • The Woman Taken in Adultery (Remastered)
    Mar 1 2026

    The Woman Taken in Adultery demonstrates not the setting aside of God’s law but its decisive confirmation by Christ, who exposes the hypocrisy and antinomianism of the scribes and Pharisees while upholding the law’s full authority. By invoking the requirements of Numbers 5 and demanding honest witnesses, Jesus placed the accusers themselves on trial, affirming the death penalty in principle while showing that no lawful case could proceed once the guilty witnesses withdrew. His refusal to condemn the woman was therefore judicial, not moral: the law stood, the charge collapsed, and the woman was dismissed with a command to repent “go, and sin no more.” Far from abolishing the law, Christ revealed Himself as its true champion, distinguishing civil judgment from spiritual forgiveness and exposing Pharisaism as a religion of self-righteous tradition that denied conversion, distorted the law, and stood condemned by the very standard it claimed to uphold. #WomanTakenInAdultery #BiblicalLaw #ChristAndTheLaw #JusticeAndMercy #NoAntinomianism #Repentance #PharisaismExposed #ScriptureTruth #LawUpheld

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    54 mins
  • Christ and the Law (Remastered)
    Feb 22 2026

    Christ and the Law explains that Jesus did not come to abolish the law but to fill it full to establish it in its true force and carry it forward as the abiding standard of God’s kingdom (Matt. 5:17–18). In the Sermon on the Mount, Christ speaks not as a commentator but as the King and Lawgiver “I say unto you” reinforcing that even the “least commandments” matter, and that kingdom citizenship is proven by doing and teaching His words (Matt. 5:19–20; 7:24). His resistance to Satan is framed by direct appeals to Deuteronomy, showing that history and righteousness must be governed by God’s law, not autonomous human will; and His exposition presses the law inward to the heart anger as murder-seed, lust as adultery-seed, integrity in speech, faith-filled trust in the Father’s rule (Matt. 5–7). The leaders’ conflicts with Jesus were therefore conflicts over authority: He was claiming to be the very measure of blessing and curse, the “rock” foundation, and the incarnate “way,” so His judgments against law-perverting rulers and His promised shaking of the ungodly were the lawful acts of the enthroned King whose authority is total (Matt. 23–24; 28:18; John 14:6). #ChristTheKing #FulfillTheLaw #SermonOnTheMount #KingdomEthics #Lawgiver #BiblicalAuthority #ObedienceAndFaith #TorahFulfilled #JesusIsTheWay #CovenantLife

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    46 mins
  • The Law and the Covenant (Remastered)
    Feb 15 2026

    The Law and the Covenant presents Scripture’s unified testimony that God’s law and covenant are inseparable and universally binding on all men and nations, whether in blessing or judgment. From Isaiah to Malachi, from Jeremiah and Ezekiel to Hebrews, God indicts individuals and empires alike not merely for immorality but for covenant-breaking rejecting His law and attempting to live as though meaning, causality, and authority can exist apart from Him. The covenant of grace brings life, order, and an unshakable kingdom in Christ, while the covenant of death man’s attempt to escape God’s law results inevitably in curse, judgment, and overthrow. Law is thus not opposed to grace but is revelational of God Himself: to reject the law is to reject the knowledge of God, to deny Christ’s lordship, and to invite divine judgment, for there is no escape from God’s covenantal order. #LawAndCovenant #BiblicalTheology #CovenantFaithfulness #GodsJudgment #CovenantOfGrace #CovenantOfDeath #KingdomOfGod #ScriptureTruth #ChristTheMediator

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    54 mins
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