The Sabbath and the Unchanging Law
It has put in its place the first day of the week, but no-lawism takes away God’s Sabbath from His people without any substitution whatsoever. If Mr. Barton and others like him could but once obtain a conception of the perfect, stable, mighty government of the regnant God, they would never talk in the childish way they do. “I am Jehovah; I change not;” “with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” The same law which was transformed into the character of Jesus Christ, can never be changed. That very law is itself a reflection of the character of God. Because of sin God has given us many object-lessons, many shadows pointing to the substance; but the seventh-day Sabbath antedates sin, is needed by the very nature of man himself, has been repeatedly approved of God, and exemplified in the character of Christ Jesus our Lord. Mr. Barton, like many others, declares, “The law written and engraven on stones was to be done away,” but we never read it in God’s Word. The glory of condemnation which that law brought was to be done away in the righteousness, or justification, of Christ Jesus; but not the law. That was to be written in the heart.