1. How many divine lawgivers do we have?
"There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy." James 4: 12.
2. How stable is the character of this Lawgiver?
"For I am the Lord, I change not." Mal. 3: 6. "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." James 1: 17.
3. What characterizes all the works of this great Lawgiver?
"He hath showed His people the power of His works, that He may give them the heritage of the heathen. The works of His hands are verity and judgment; all His commandments are sure. They stand fast forever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness." Ps. 111: 6-8.
4. What is said of the perfection of His law which is spoken of in the foregoing text as His sure commandments that are to "stand fast for ever and ever"?
"The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul." Ps. 19: 7.
5. What was the teaching of Christ concerning the immutability of the law?
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 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." Matt. 5: 17, 18.
6. In what words does He again speak of the enduring character of God's law?
"It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail." Luke 16: 17.
7. What admonition is given which shows the divine meaning of fulfilling law?
"Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ." Gal. 6: 2.
NOTE.—Moral law enjoins moral obligation, and the only way in which it is possible for it to be fulfilled, is for it to be obeyed. And, in the very nature of things, a law that is of universal moral application must be eternal, for fundamental moral principles are absolutely unchangeable. One precept of God's moral law says, "Thou shalt not kill." This is the statement of an everlasting moral obligation. There never has been a time when it was right to kill, and there never can be a time when it will be right to kill. The same may be said concerning the moral precept against stealing, and every one of the other commandments of the Decalogue.9
and core a state church. The influence that this new nation exerted, was a mighty uplift to the cause of freedom. And while state religions were retained by the various nations of the Old World, yet there has been a spirit of religious liberty that has suppressed much of the intolerance of former days.
Washington and his times marked an epoch in the history of the world; the principles for which he stood can not be cherished too dearly.
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