Our Bible Reading

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 22, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 46.

Our Bible Reading

Perpetuity of the Law

1. What is the nature of God's law?

"The LAW OF THE LORD IS PERFECT, converting the soul: the TESTIMONY OF THE LORD IS SURE, making wise the simple." Ps. 19: 7.

"Wherefore THE LAW IS HOLY, and the commandment holy, and JUST, and GOOD." Rom. 7: 12.

"For we know that the law is spiritual." Rom. 7: 14.

2. Of what is that law a definition or standard?

"My tongue shall speak of Thy Word: for ALL THY COMMANDMENTS ARE RIGHTEOUSNESS." Ps. 119: 172.

3. What does the prophet say concerning God's righteousness?

"Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but My salvation shall be forever, and MY RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL NOT BE ABOLISHED. Harken unto Me, ye that KNOW RIGHTEOUSNESS, the people in whose heart is MY LAW; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but MY RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE FOREVER, and My salvation from generation to generation." Isa. 51: 6-8.

4. What does the psalmist say concerning the unshakable perpetuity of God's law?

"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: 7, 8.

5. What assurance does Jesus give us?

"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. How does He elsewhere speak of it?

"And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail." Luke 16: 17.

7. What does the apostle Paul say of this law and its relationship to faith?

"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, WE ESTABLISH the LAW." Rom. 3: 31.

8. How does another apostle speak of its integrity?

"If ye fulfil THE ROYAL LAW according to the SCRIPTURE, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For He that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by THE LAW OF LIBERTY." James 2: 8-12.

9. With what great truth is it elsewhere coupled?

"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, and THE FAITH OF JESUS." Rev. 14: 12.

10. Of what then may we be assured?

"Concerning THY TESTIMONIES, I have known of old that THOU HAST FOUNDED THEM FOREVER." Ps. 119: 152.