p. 675 | Led by the Spirit

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 3, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 43.

Led by the Spirit

Led by the Spirit.—How often when the claims of God’s law, and especially his holy Sabbath, are presented, persons will exclaim, “I am led by the Spirit of God; I am not under law.” This is invariably presented as an excuse, a justification, for disobedience to the plain command of God. Such persons have little idea of the nature of God’s law or the work of his Spirit. Is it not the law of God? Did he not himself speak it, and write it, and give it to his people? Has not he declared it “perfect,” and “holy and just and good”? Is not the Spirit which creates, gives life, moulds action, his Spirit? Is it not of his very life and nature as the law is of his character and government? Would the Spirit of God lead away from the law of God? The law itself “is spiritual” (Rom. 7:14), and would not the Spirit of God lead us to a spiritual law? In fact, God, by the grace of his goodness and power of his Spirit, sets us free “that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Rom. 8:4. He who declares that he is led of the Spirit while knowingly transgressing God’s law does not know God’s Spirit. He does not realize that he is setting God against himself and making Christ the minister of sin.