It Refers to Some Other Party.
A Gospel Trumpet publication, sent, we suppose, by a Gospel Trumpet blower, presents a list of “questions for Saturday-keepers,” with this introduction: “Now, Mr. Saturday-keeper, we will give you something to do. . . . ‘Tell us ye who desire to be under the law.’” Now this demand does not pertain to us. We know this for two reasons: (1) We are not “Saturday-keepers.” Not only do we not keep the time of Saturday except in part, but we keep a different institution altogether. We keep the Sabbath, the Creator’s holy rest day, containing in itself the rest which Jesus Christ alone can give, and His pledge of the eternal rest. It is not Saturday, it is Sabbath, measured by God’s time, hallowed by God’s presence, confirmed by His precept and example in Christ as Creator and Redeemer. (2) We do not “desire to be under the law.” We desired not to be under it so much that we yielded to its holy claims, acknowledged our sin, counted ourselves as dead in Christ, and accepted His perfect life of harmony with that law for ours, and thus by His obedience to that law were made righteous. The law, under the condemnation of which we formerly were, now comes forward a blessed witness of the effectiveness of our righteousness by faith. It is no longer over us, but with us and in us, because Christ is there. Only those are “under the law” who are transgressing it. We conclude, therefore, that this trumpeter wants reply from some other source.