Let
us review the cause and effect of where we are today and where it is leading. GOD established many laws when He created our
Universal Home. There is the law of gravity, laws of physics and biology, and none of them will ever change; with each
of them contributing to the everlasting security of the heavens. GOD even gave to men the moral code for living: The
Ten Commandments, that if followed, no man, woman, or child would suffer injustice at the hands of another. GOD said, “ye
shall find rest for your souls.” Jeremiah 6:16. But the world is filled with unrest. The many struggles people face
is simply due to the world making a conscious judgment to disregard GOD’S Holy Law. A
system of government rules over life that is defiant to Utopian Law.
Society
imposes many harmful traditions on every child born into this world. And because they are concealed within a framework
containing many useful benefits to society their poisoning effects are not readily recognized. If I place before you
a box of rat poison and say, "Eat," your discernment of the threat would prevent your taking that action.
But if I mingle the rat poison within your favorite foods, you'd be none the wiser until it was too late.
It is on this basis that we see the exponential increase in
disease, crime and war. Passed from generation to generation these traditions, (many of which were established by insatiably greedy
men), hold back the needed changes that if made would enlighten, bless, and protect every child born into our world.
But this has ever been the great danger of what Jesus called "the tradition of men."
Today, a thousand destructive values that all would agree hold back the progress of civilization continue in the freedom
to exercise their harmful influence day after day, and with no end in sight. This is simply due to man's
eternal trademark of fraudulent behavior: the two-step sequence leading to the betrayal of everyone: bribery and coercion.
These are the two steps universally accepted in government, religion and science that are shaping our world. The use
of flattery and threats have caused every war seen in earth's history. This method, which
always corrupts the leadership of men, withholds the restful life that every man, woman and child aches with a heavy
heart to receive.
But
man does not realize his peril, nor the infinite worth of what he is opposing. Among the many established
laws in our universe is the law of music. A wonderful lesson is learned when we examine this law and see its relationship
with GOD’S other established laws. When we pluck a string on any instrument it vibrates producing the sound we
hear. But the vibration of a string produces many other sounds as well. These other sounds are called harmonics
(or overtones). Harmonics are produced because a string subdivides its length during the vibration: first by half,
then by quarters, eighths, etc. We can hear these natural harmonics of the string, but because their influence is so quiet
when compared to the fundamental tone they remain largely hidden to our notice. And yet, it is their influence that explains
our love for music. So, when we play as a chord the ten primary harmonics of a string it produces a quality of sound that
absolutely rejoices the human heart. In music we define this quality as major. The unchangeable law for
the vibration of sound produces a lush and lovely sound, drawing from the heart a deep emotional rest.
When
we compare the joy found in the law of music to God's other established laws we discover that all of them were given to
rejoice the hearts of people and provide rest to the soul no less than the law of music. And by remaining within the
boundaries of their jurisdiction this will always guarantee our happiness.
But
now we must ask the question: Why is there so much unhappiness, injustice and cruel indifference, even within the Christian
church? Man is at war with the very laws that make him happy. He defies what GOD has provided to
secure our mutual peace. Can you now see something of the foolishness of sin? And yet, these laws exist to provide the
means for utopian life. But there is no utopia on earth—yet. This war, GOD says in the Holy Bible, is a
battle between sin and righteousness; and this is why the Ten Commandments declare all self-worship, idolatry, misusing GOD’S
name, Sabbath breaking, dishonoring of parents, murder, adultery, theft, lying, and covetousness to be sin, for sin always
robs from man the security and joy GOD ordained for His children to receive from His hand.
GOD’S
Law works to the promotion of life, never its harm or destruction! But society’s continual indulgence in sin shows the
foolishness of man, for sin is at war not only with the security of life but also the aspirations of the human conscience
that God has placed into every heart. He gave to us our deep abiding love for music, and He works to draw from human hearts
that same love for His other equally commending laws, through whose obedience all would be safe.