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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 28, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 9.

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THE LAW OF GOD.

1. The law of God was the first law known to man.
"By the law is the knowledge of sin." Rom. 3:20.
"Sin is not imputed when there is no law." Rom. 5:13.
"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.
"Sin is the transgression of the law." 1 John 3:4.
"The wages of sin is death." Rom. 6:23.
"By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin." Rom. 5:12.
"In Adam all die." 1 Cor. 15:22.
2. The law of God is man's rule of life.
"Fear God, and keep His commandments; for this is the whole duty of man." Eccl. 12:13.
3. The recognition of this law gives men wisdom and understanding.
"Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon Him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?" "And He declared unto you His covenant, which He commanded you to perform, even Ten Commandments; and He wrote them upon two tables of stone." Deut. 4:6-8, 13.
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do His commandments." Ps. 111:10.
4. The law of God has no defect; it could not be improved.
"The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul." Ps. 19:7.
"My tongue shall speak of Thy Word; for all thy commandments are righteousness." Ps. 119:172.
"Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good." Rom. 7:12.
5. The law of God was the "delight" of David, of Christ, of Paul, and John.
"I have longed for Thy salvation, O Lord; and Thy law is my delight." Ps. 119:174.
"Then said I, Lo, I come, in the volume of the Book it is written of Me, I delight to do Thy will, O My God; yea, Thy law is within My heart." Ps. 40:7, 8.
"I delight in the law of God after the inward man." Rom. 7:22.
"This is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not grievous." 1 John 5:3.
6. The law of God can not be changed, not even in the fraction of a letter.
"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 nowise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." Matt. 5:17, 18.
"It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail." Luke 16:17.
7. In both Old and New Testaments, blessing is attached to keeping the law.
"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night." Ps. 1:1, 2.
"Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." Rev. 22:14.
8. The law of God is the special feature of the new covenant.
"This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts." Heb. 8:10; also Jer. 31:31-34.
9. The majesty of the law is emphasized by the Gospel.
"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid; yea, we establish the law." Rom. 3:31.