God's Holy Law by T. Godfrey

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 16, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 19.

God's Holy Law

By T. Godfrey

I delight to do Thy will, O my God: yea, Thy law is within my heart. Ps. 40: 8.

THE Ten Commandments are the law of God expressed in precept. They are the expressed will of God. They reveal our relation and duty to our Creator and to our fellow men. They are the organic principles in the throne of the universal empire. Therefore they are the eternal and unchangeable rule of His moral government.

The law of God is the rule by which the temple of God, the altar, and them that worship therein, are measured (Rev. 11: 1). The law of God is the standard of all righteousness (Ps. 119: 172) and truth (Ps. 119: 142), the rule by which character is measured; therefore the Ten Commandments are the rule of judgment for all men (Eccl. 12: 13, 14); and none who fall short of this standard can enter into the eternal kingdom of Christ.

The life of Christ while on earth in the flesh, was the law of God exemplified. Said Jesus, "For I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me." John 6: 38.

The law of God is an inherent, fixed principle in God, eternal, and unchangeable in its nature. The law engraved in stone, or written in ink upon parchment, will not prove effectual to the believer. But the law must be written in the heart of man by the "Spirit of the living God." 2 Cor. 3: 3. This is the Spirit of the new covenant, and is in harmony with original conditions. Therefore Christ came not to destroy the law (Matt. 5: 17), but to magnify it, and make it honorable (Isa. 42: 21).

Christ came to live out its principles in human flesh, and through His death reconcile fallen man to God and His law. The law can not justify sinful man; but after he has been justified by faith in Christ Jesus, the law witnesses to his righteousness. Says the psalmist, "The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple."

T. GODFREY. Western, Washington.