With God's Law

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 8, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 26.

Which would you prefer to be,—over God's law, under God's law, or with God's law? The anarchist, the rebel, thinks he is over, or above, God's law when he is transgressing it, trampling it underfoot. By a strange freak in theological thinking, some men believe they are above the law and may disregard the law, because God has in Christ once forgiven their sins. ("Sin is the transgression of the law.") Both classes are anarchists. Both too are "under the law," that is, under its condemnation. But he who is with the law has the law written in his heart, and finds it joy to obey. 1 John 5:3. Which do you prefer? Is it not worth while to be in harmony with God's government?