CREATOR, LAWGIVER, AND EXAMPLE.
By O. E. Jones
1. In the Scriptures the Son is often called God. “But unto the Son He saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever; a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Thy kingdom.” Heb. 1:8. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1. 2. As the Son inherits the name of the Father, so Christ’s name by inheritance is God. “Being made so much better than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.” Heb. 1:4. 3. By Him were all things created. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.” “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.” John 1:1-3, 14. “In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins; who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature; for by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all things were created by Him, and for Him; and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; that in all things He might have the pre-eminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell.” Col. 1:14-19. 4. The Son of God created in six days the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. “And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.” Gen. 2:3. 5. This same Lord, the Creator, is the One who came down on Sinai, and in thunder tones spoke the law. “Thou, even Thou, art Lord alone; Thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host; the earth, and all things that are therein; the seas, and all that is therein, and Thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshipeth Thee. . . . Moreover Thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go. Thou camest down also upon Mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments; and madest known unto them Thy holy Sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses Thy servant.” Neh. 9:6-14. 6. Christ’s example of honor and perfect obedience to the law should be valuable to us. Through the psalmist He says:— “Then said I, Lo, I come; in the volume of the Book it is written of Me, I delight to do Thy will, O My God; yea, Thy law is within my heart.” Ps. 40:7, 8. 7. On earth He declared:— “And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.” Luke 16:17. 8. Here are His words to us:— “Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Matt. 5:19.