Our Bible Reading

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 15, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 40.

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Our Bible Reading

Was God’s Law to Be Changed?

1. What does the prophet Isaiah say would be the attitude of Christ toward His Father’s law?

"The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake; He will magnify the law, and make it honorable." Isa. 42: 21.

2. What did He say in regard to destroying His Father’s law?

"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." Matt. 5: 17.

3. How much of the law did He uphold?

"For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." Verse 18.

4. How were people to be regarded who would break one of these commandments?

"Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." Verse 19.

5. What great principle did Christ say was the foundation of God’s commandments?

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Matt. 22: 37-39.

6. How much of the law does Christ say hangs on these two great commandments?

"On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." Verse 40.

7. What does one of the apostles of Christ say in regard to making void the law of God for either Jew or Gentile?

"Is He the God of the Jews only? is He not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." Rom. 3: 29-31.

NOTE.—The texts in the foregoing reading are a part only of the expressions the Lord uses to show the perpetual obligation of His law and its changeless condition. In the Master’s great Sermon on the Mount, from which the quotations of Matthew 5 are taken, it is explicitly stated that not a single jot or tittle should pass from the law till all be fulfilled. These texts, it would seem, must have been placed in the Bible for the direct and express purpose of fortifying the mind against some attempt that would be made to change God’s law. The texts which show that such a change would be attempted will be given in our Bible reading next week.