Our Bible Reading

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

Our Bible Reading

The Law and the Gospel

1. In view of the judgment what rule of life has God given us?

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Eccl. 12: 13, 14.

2. Of what is man the sinner and transgressor?

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 1 John 3: 4.

3. By what, then, is he condemned as a sinner?

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.

4. Being a sinner, to what is he subject?

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

5. What glad tidings does the Lord bring to the death-doomed?

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.

6. Through Christ what does He do for the sinner who believes?

Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Rom. 4: 7, 8.

7. What does this faith put upon him in the place of his sins?

Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference. Rom. 3: 22.

8. What bears witness that this righteousness is correct?

But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. Rom. 3: 21.

9. How will he who has thus tasted of the forgiveness of God regard the law?

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not grievous. 1 John 5: 3.