Keeping the Divine Law

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 30, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 47.

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Keeping the Divine Law

IN a paragraph that is well worthy of the most careful reading and reflection, the editor of the Sunday School Times tells of “the only ones that can keep the law.” His words are the following:
“Those who are not under the law are the only ones that can keep the law. Christians are intended to be the great law keepers. It is notable that the New Testament, as well as the Old, is full of commandments of all sorts. . . . Some one has said that for the Christian the commandments have been reduced to two: Believe and love. 1 John 3: 23. But these two—rather, this one—include all the rest. And it is impossible for any man to keep them. It is James, a New Testament writer, who gives this uncompromising and difficult word: ‘Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.’ James 2: 10. But it is James, too, who adds the gospel secret in the same passage: ‘So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty.’ James 2: 12. We have been set free from the bondage of the law, that we might be at liberty to keep the law. Those under the law have the law. Those whom Christ has set free have the Law-keeper. Our new obligation then is not to look at the law and try to put that on, but to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and let Him keep the law in us.”