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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 28, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 47.

Our Bible Reading

The Law and the Gospel

1. What is the wages of sin? For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom. 6: 23.

2. How is death destroyed, and the light of eternal life made manifest? But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel. 2 Tim. 1: 10.

3. Since it is the Gospel that brings "life and immortality" to light, what is the Gospel? For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. Rom. 1: 16.

4. Since the wages of sin is death, what is sin? Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 1 John 3: 4.

5. What was the only means the apostle Paul had of knowing sin in his life? What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. 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.

6. In what manner is sin made to appear exceeding sinful? Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. Rom. 7: 13.

7. What are Paul's conclusions, then, concerning the law? Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. Rom. 7: 12, 14.

8. Should we gather, from any of these texts, that the law of God has been abolished through the Gospel? Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. Rom. 3: 31.

9. What was the infinite price that was paid to establish thus God's law? For God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3: 16.