THE MORAL LAW | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 14, 1881

THE MORAL LAW.

DR. ADAM CLARKE thus speaks of Scripture. To say that Christ's personal righteousness is imputed to every true believer, is not scriptural; to say that he has fulfilled all righteousness for us, or in our stead, if by this is meant the fulfillment of all moral duties, is neither scriptural nor true; that he has died in our stead, is a great, glorious, and scriptural truth; that there is no redemption but through his blood is asserted beyond all contradiction in the oracles of God. But there are a multitude of duties which the moral law requires, which Christ never fulfilled in our stead, and never could. He has fulfilled none of these duties for us, but he furnishes grace to every true believer to fulfill them to God's glory, the edification of his neighbor, and his own eternal profit. The salvation which we receive from God's free mercy, through Christ, binds us to live in strict conformity to the moral law; that law which prescribes our manners, and the spirit by which they should be regulated, and in which they should be performed.—Golden Censer.