Loyalty Is Obedience

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 23, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 37.

Loyalty Is Obedience

Loyalty Is Obedience.—During the last few days the sensible and patriotic people of this country, whatever their sentiments, have seen and felt the necessity of the maintenance of order, of upholding the integrity of the law of the government. Without law, confusion, anarchy, and destruction are sure to follow. Are not these principles just as valuable concerning the government of God? God has a government; "his kingdom ruleth over all." He has a law; for a government cannot exist without a law. God spoke this law from heaven itself; he wrote it with his own finger on tables of enduring stone; he "added no more," showing its completeness; he declares that his law is "perfect," "holy," "just," "good;" the Son of God declares that "it is easier for heaven and earth to pass than for one tittle of the law to fail." All this and much more might be cited, showing the universality, the completeness, the perfectness, the integrity, the immutability, and eternity of God's law. He who is loyal to God will obey God's law.

Says Jesus (who declared, "My doctrine is not mine, but His that sent me"), "If ye love me, keep my commandments;" "Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you." Loyalty to God means loyalty to his law.

Says Albert Barnes, "They who pretend that there are any laws of God so small that they need not obey them, are unworthy of his kingdom."