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GOD’S LAW

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 22, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 4.

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GOD’S LAW

By H. W. Reed

H. W. REED
The psalmist says: “Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.”
Great peace can never be obtained by hating the law of God, and employing all our powers in disobeying it.
Christ himself taught the perpetuity of His Father’s law, in the eternal and unchangeable words: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”
A jot is the smallest letter in the Hebrew language; and a tittle is a little point or corner to distinguish one letter from another; so not one of the smallest details of this law can be changed till heaven and earth pass away. This is final and decisive, because it is divine. These are the words of One of whom men now say, “He changed the law.” But nothing can be further from the truth than the latter statement; for it contradicts the words of Christ.
May God help us never, in thought, word, or deed, to teach this antinomian doctrine; but by every means possible may we teach the immutability of God’s law.
Granite rocks shall melt and crumble In the great and final day, And the heavens above shall vanish, And the earth shall pass away: But the law of ten commandments Shall for evermore endure; Written by the hand eternal, They shall ever stand secure.