The Divinely Given Law — It Can and Should Be Kept
By A. S. Booth
God came down on Sinai and spoke His law to the people, with the greatest manifestation of power and glory this world has ever seen since the creation. He also wrote it upon the rock. Thus the law of God is higher than inspiration. When God moves a man to speak or write, that is inspiration. But God Himself spoke and wrote the law. About fifteen hundred years later the Lord sent us an example of commandment keeping. He sent His only-begotten Son, "clothed in the flesh," "in all points tempted like as we," "subject to like passion," and He kept the law that was given at Sinai. The world can never accuse the Lord of giving a law that could not be kept in the flesh; for after Christ gave the law, He came down and kept it. "I have kept My Father's commandments," He said. In the Judgment, every mouth will be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God. Men may say what they please against God's law. They may wear out their very lives in seeking to overthrow it, if they see fit. But that will not alter one "jot or tittle" of the law. It will read the same in the Judgment. Should one say, in that day, "Lord, You gave us a law that absolutely could not be kept under any condition," the Master could answer, "Did you not read that I was interested in giving the law, and afterward I came in the flesh and kept it, also that I was your example in commandment keeping?" So the world is left utterly without any excuse. However, Christ could of Himself do nothing, but looked by faith to His Father for strength day by day; and we are entreated to follow Him in this respect also. The same faith that grasps the forgiveness of sin should grasp the power of God to overcome sin and keep His sayings. God does not expect us to keep His commandments in order to make ourselves Christians, but because we are His children. Said the Master, "If ye love Me, keep My commandments." A. S. Booth.