The Living Law and the Gospel
They would know in their own experience that that living law pointed out sin and condemned the sinner. They would see Christ crucified to release man, not from obedience to the law’s righteous demands, but from its condemnation by the obedience of Christ. They would see that same living law, “the law of life ‘in Christ Jesus,’” as the Gospel in its power to save. In the very nature of the case they would know that the law is living and eternal. Men do not know this, because they do not know the living, eternal God. They discuss Him and His religion as they do Buddha and his teachings. “But Jehovah is the true ‘God, He is the living God, and an everlasting King. ‘At His wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide His indignation. ‘Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not ‘made the heavens and the earth, even they shall ‘perish from the earth, and from under these ‘heavens.’” “Thy righteousness is an everlasting ‘righteousness, and Thy law is the truth.” “All His ‘commandments are sure. They stand fast forever ‘and ever.” Reader, would you be so established? —Let God write that law in your heart.