Why They Do Not Understand
By very many the law of God is not understood, because it is to them a dead law. They look upon it as they do the statutes of an earthly government. It is simply words. They have not seen the great thought, it has not entered their souls, that the living, everlasting, unchangeable God must have a living, everlasting, unchangeable law, the expression of His own divine character. If once they could see this, if once they could know the power of this living law, they would never question its perpetuity again. They would not haggle over texts and seeming objections; would not try to get some scripture that, by unwarranted inference, seems to abolish the law. No; they would settle forever that God’s “righteousness ‘shall not be abolished;’” that “it is easier for heaven and earth to pass than one tittle of the law ‘to fail.’”