Proverbs 3:1, 2: "My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments; For length of days, and long life, and PEACE, shall they add to thee."
Men, all the laws and commandments of God promoted by Jesus Christ and the apostles to be applicable to Gentile Christians bring peace when we obey them. Many Old Testament laws applying to the Old Testament temple sacrifices obviously cannot apply to New Testament believers. However, many Old Testament laws and commandments are promoted and taught in the New Testaments. These laws and commandants, taken from the Old Covenant and added to the New Testament (covenant), if loved and obeyed will bring peace to those who apply them.
As to how much importance New Testament Christians should place on the Old Testament laws is briefly and simply answered in Acts 15:19-32. The apostles and elders ended their letter to the Gentile Christians with these words in verses 28 and 29: "For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well." As fathers, we will do well to make this passage of Scripture the rule for our families.
It seems to me that the commandment against fornication is largely ignored by modern day Christians, to our peril. Sexual promiscuity is not being addressed by the leaders of our churches as a primary sin of which we must repent and put away from our families and churches. Fornication is running rampart in our nation in all institutions of government, education, and media. Churches everywhere, small and large, are infected.
Fathers, we must take responsibility now, right now! Do not leave it to the church leaders to address this subject, but faithfully address it in your family. As fathers, we cannot ignore this admonition from the leaders of the early church, which also seemed good doctrine of the Holy Ghost.
Psalm 119:165: "Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them."
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
Luke 19:41, 42: "And when he (Jesus) was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it. Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes."
Matthew 5:9: "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
Men, our families desperately need fathers who seek the Lord. Those who take their place in Christ's heavenly places are best suited to reach down and touch the lowest and most needy places on earth (Psalm 113:4-8).
Psalm 24:6 says: "This is the generation of them that seek Him." Who will lay hold of the truth of what it really means to be seated with Christ in heavenly places, in the highest mountain of all?
Exodus 20:21: "And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was."
There are men who love mountains and yet never give a thought for God. Some love to view mountains from a distance. I must admit I enjoying doing this; it does my heart good.
A good example: Dr. E. Schuyler English once told of a man on Long Island who was able to satisfy a lifelong ambition by purchasing a very fine barometer.
To only give mental assent to have a pure heart is not enough. We must give it our earnest attention. Psalm 24:3 asks the question: "Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?" Verse 4 answers the question: "He that hath clean hands, and a PURE HEART; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully." While I believe this psalm's first application applies to the Mess
Hebrews 9:14: "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"
Moses cried out to God, "I beseech thee, show me thy glory" (Exodus 33:18). Men, the enemy of our souls will do all that he can to stop us from truly seeing God.
Colossians 2:9, 10: "For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power."
John 14:8, 9: "Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him . . . he that hath seen me hath seen the Father."
Hebrews 12:14: "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord."
"Blessed are in the pure in heart: for they shall seek God" (Matthew 5:8). 
"Real men do the best job they can at whatever they are doing and wear the biggest smile in the world. No slow, slack, slouchy, sluggish and slovenly attitude. No grumbling, griping, complaining, winging, whining, and murmuring.
Men, according to the teachings of Christ in Matthew 6:7, it is the merciful who are promised continued mercy from God. We have all been shown amazing grace and mercy through the sacrifice of Christ's death on our behalf. But the grace of God which includes His mercy does not just stop there. It is also for our everyday lives.
In Matthew 18:23-35 Jesus tells a parable about a king whose servant owed him 10,000 talents. Because the servant couldn't pay his debt the king commanded him to be sold, along with his wife, children, and everything he owned. The servant fell down before him and begged the king to have patience with him and he would eventually pay it all. The king was moved with compassion and completely forgave him the debt.
2 Samuel 22:26: "With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt show thyself upright."
A. W. Tozer writes: "Among the sins to which the human heart is prone, hardly any other is more hateful to God than idolatry, for idolatry is at bottom a libel on His character. The idolatrous heart assumes that God is other than He is--in itself a monstrous sin--and substitutes for the true God one made after its own likeness. . . . The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him."