p. 9 | Why Christ Died

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 25, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 29.

Why Christ Died

It is thus that a professed minister writes of those who believe in loyalty to the law which was honored by Jesus Christ:

If following a dead law and a false prophet will save people, obedience to a living Christ and a glorious Gospel will save too; and so let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

The only power to save the sinner is Christ Jesus our Lord. Acts 4:12. The only law which declares sin and convicts the sinner is the Decalogue. “Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law; for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.” Rom. 7:7.

Jesus Christ died to save from sin and sinning. Matt. 1:21. He therefore is our Saviour, to make disobedient men obedient, obedient to what this minister calls “a dead law” He is our Saviour, to write that law in the heart. Titus 2:14; Heb. 8:10. Thank God, therefore, for a living Christ, and for a living, witnessing law.