I.  INTRODUCTION
    A.  Definition:  Law is the government or rule of an intelligent being by another intelligent being with power          over him.  AUSTIN, Jurist Philosopher.
    B.  Three Elements in Law:
         1.  Desire, expectation or demand of one intelligent being that act, or feel a certain way.
         2.  Power of the one being to enforce or punish if law is not obeyed.
         3.  Words that express the law.
    C.  Two classes of Law:
         1.  The natural law:(Law in the natural realm)
              a.  Natural Law does not fall under the realm that Austin gave.
              b.  Why do men believe in Natural Law?  Because they believe that nature acts in harmony with
                   wishes and desires if the Lawgiver.
              c.  When men begin to disbelieve in the lawgiver, they begin to say that nature at bottom is
                   haphazard. (cf. A.E. Taylor, Does God Exist and C.S. Lewis, Miracles.)
II. SOCIAL LAW: LAW TO INTELLIGENT BEINGS
    A.  First laws given to intelligent beings.  2 Pet. 2: 4-8, 11; Jude 6; Heb. 1: 7, 13.
         1.  Laws to angels - don't know what they were
         2.  Were punished - by other intelligent beings
         3.  Words of law implied.
    B.  Introduction to Laws given to man.
         1.  Only eternal law is God's nature: hence, no eternal moral law.
         2.  God's nature is unchangeable. Jas 1:17; Heb 1: 10 - 12
         3.  God's laws do change with the progression and retrogression of man's nature (God gives different
              laws at different times.)
         4.  there is no law given to man antedating Genesis One.
         5.  He made concessions to men at times because of hardness of men's hearts.
    C.  LAWS TO MAN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
         1.  First laws:
              a.  What they were
                   (1) Be fruitful and multiply
                   (2) Subdue earth
                   (3) Eat of all but tree of knowledge.
              b.  Penalties to Man:  In the day ye eat ye shall surely die.
              c.  Sense they died:
                   (1) Spiritually - separated from God
                   (2) Physically - became dying men (Lit. dying, thou shalt die) separated from the tree of life
                     Question: Is any law announced with penalty? Yes.
                   (3) Death, Work, Sorrow in childbearing
        2.  Law of sacrifice: To Cain and Abel.
             a.  Must have been a law: Heb. 11:4; Rom 10:17; Gen 4:4,5,7.
             Penalty is not mentioned.

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