3184.-A New Commandment by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 12, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 27.

3184.—A New Commandment

By Editor

Please explain 1 John 2:8.

L. E.

The text reads, "Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in Him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth." Read this verse in connection with the previous verse, "The old commandment is the Word which ye have heard from the beginning." That is God's truth and God's law and God's commandments which have come down to the children of God from the time of their utterance. They are new, however, to the believer. "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature." God's commandments are no longer condemnatory precepts, but they are living, enabling acts. The old commandment becomes a new commandment, because the darkness is past and the true light shines.