The Institutes of Biblical Law

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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.

  1. 9H AGO

    Christ and the Law (Remastered)

    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

    46 min

  2. FEB 15

    The Law and the Covenant (Remastered)

    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

    54 min

  3. FEB 8

    Law as Direction and Life (Remastered)

    God’s law isn’t a list of cold rules it’s direction, light, and life itself. Scripture teaches that torah means a God-given path to walk, not just commands to obey. When men and societies abandon that direction, they don’t become “free” they become lost, blind, and eventually ungovernable. Proverbs makes it clear: God’s law is a lamp for the path, a fountain of life, and the only true source of wisdom, meaning, and happiness. To reject God’s law is to reject guidance, prayer, and even relationship with Him. And when Christ declared, “I am the way,” He was making it unmistakable: He is the living Torah, the only true direction for life, truth, and righteousness. Without God’s law, there is no vision and without vision, the people perish. #GodsLaw #Torah #BiblicalWisdom #LawAsLife #ChristianWorldview #Proverbs #ChristTheWay #TruthAndLife #DirectionNotRelativism

    47 min

  4. FEB 1

    Natural and Supernatural Law (Remastered)

    According to Scripture, the result isn’t neutrality it’s chaos. When man’s reason, experience, or majority opinion becomes the source of law, God is quietly dethroned, the state takes His place, and truth is reduced to compromise and expediency. This episode exposes how even well-meaning theologians traded Moses for Plato, revelation for rationalism, and ended up empowering statism, relativism, and moral collapse. The Bible offers no middle ground: either God’s revealed law governs life, society, and science or there is no law at all. To reject Moses is to reject the God who orders the world. #BiblicalLaw #NaturalLawDebate #Theonomy #Rushdoony #VanTil #ChristianWorldview #Statism #Humanism #GodsLaw #TruthOverCompromise

    52 min

  5. JAN 25

    God the King (Remastered)

    From the beginning, God’s kingship has meant authoritative direction—torah—for all who stand in relationship to Him, making law inseparable from faith, covenant, and life itself; Israel’s history, especially in Joshua and Judges, shows that blessing, strength, and victory flowed from obedience to God the King, while lawlessness—“every man doing what was right in his own eyes”—brought defeat, captivity, and curse, proving that human kingship or autonomy can never replace God’s sovereign rule; Jesus Christ confirmed this truth by declaring Himself the Way, the living embodiment of God’s law and direction, so that to reject the law is ultimately to reject Christ, whereas to walk in obedience is to move in God’s appointed path of righteousness, freedom, and life, not as slaves under condemnation but as sons guided by their King. #GodTheKing #BiblicalLaw #Torah #ChristTheWay #KingshipOfGod #LawAndGrace #ChristianWorldview #FaithAndObedience

    52 min

  6. JAN 18

    The Unlimited Liability Universe (Remastered)

    Scripture reveals that reality is not a limited-liability system but a universe of inescapable moral consequence, where blessings and curses relentlessly “overtake” men according to their obedience or rebellion against God’s law (Deut. 28), exposing the false hope behind atheism, socialism, pietism, and lawless “grace,” all of which seek to escape responsibility by denying God’s sovereignty; biblical faith affirms instead that man, as a creature, always lives under unlimited liability, either to judgment under the curse or to blessing under Christ’s lordship, for regeneration does not remove liability but transfers the believer from unlimited exposure to wrath into unlimited exposure to blessing through obedience to God’s law; the attempt to accept Christ while rejecting His law reduces faith to pagan insurance, but true Christianity confesses Christ as sovereign Lawgiver, embracing a world where consequences are real, authority is total, and victory comes not through escape from liability but through faithful submission to God’s righteous rule. #GodsSovereignty #BiblicalLaw #UnlimitedLiability #ChristianWorldview #LawAndGrace #ChristTheKing #FaithAndObedience #Theonomy

    43 min

  7. JAN 11

    Curses and Blessings (Remastered)

    Deuteronomy 27–28 declares that God’s law brings with it inescapable consequences—blessing for obedience and curse for rebellion—revealing a moral order in which covenant faithfulness leads to life, prosperity, and the inheritance of the earth, while lawlessness results in judgment, defeat, and exile; the ban or anathema is not abolished in history but merely redirected by societies that reject God’s law, proving that no culture can escape moral sanctions, only choose what it will curse; Scripture affirms that blessings and curses are sovereign and irresistible realities that “overtake” men and nations, confirmed by Christ Himself as the Lawgiver, so that faith and obedience are inseparable, and to deny God’s law is ultimately to deny God, while to obey it is to walk the ordained path of life, peace, and dominion under His righteous rule. #BlessingAndCurse #BiblicalLaw #CovenantFaithfulness #LawAndLife #ChristianWorldview #Theonomy #GodsJustice #ChristTheLawgiver

    55 min

  8. JAN 4

    The Law and the Ban (Remastered)

    God’s covenant law, grounded in His faithfulness and sovereignty, applies to all men without exception, declaring blessings for obedience and curses for rebellion (Deut. 7:9–15), with Christ Himself standing as the covenant Lord who brings both salvation and judgment to all humanity; the “ban” reveals the ultimate consequence of covenant-breaking—the end of communion and the placing of individuals or nations under judgment—while affirming that true community, progress, and blessing exist only within submission to God’s rightful claims; history, Scripture, and experience alike testify that nations and peoples flourish to the degree they honor God’s law and fall to the degree they reject it, making clear that to forsake the law is to forsake victory, blessing, and life itself, whereas obedience to Christ the King brings enduring prosperity and dominion under God. #BiblicalLaw #Covenant #GodsJustice #BlessingAndCurse #ChristianWorldview #Theonomy #LawAndGospel #ChristTheKing

    49 min
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