The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable (Isa. 42:21).
The law of God was spoken with audible voice from Mount Sinai. Again it was repeated by Jesus Christ in its spiritual principles in His sermon on the mount. Our Lord, in His own life, was the Word made flesh, which "dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth" (John 1:14). Jesus appeared among men as God's "righteous servant" (Isa. 53:11). He revealed God's law as a law of love.
The first table of the Ten Commandments reveals love to God, the second reveals love to other people. "Love is the fulfilling of the law (Rom. 13:10), and Jesus Christ is incarnate love. He put the magnifying glass of His holy righteousness, as it were, over the law, and it became "exceeding broad" (Ps. 119:96). The commandment said, "Thou shalt not kill" (Ex. 20:13. Through Christ the commandment includes all hatred, and therefore its scope is greatly magnified. The seventh commandment forbids adultery, unfaithfulness in marriage; but, through the magnifying glass of Christ's holy teaching, it includes even the lustful look or thought.
So the entire law of God is magnified through His life and reaches every heart and every human life. And since the transgression of the law is sin, and Jesus died for our sins upon the cross, His atoning sacrifice shows the holy nature and eternal character of God's law.
Notice that this prophetic promise pointed to Him who said, "I am not come destroy, but to fulfil" (Matt. 5:17).
O that the Lord would guide my ways
To keep His statues still!
O that my God would grant me grace
To know and do His will!
__Isaac Watts
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law" (Ps. 119:10).
The law of God was spoken with audible voice from Mount Sinai. Again it was repeated by Jesus Christ in its spiritual principles in His sermon on the mount. Our Lord, in His own life, was the Word made flesh, which "dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth" (John 1:14). Jesus appeared among men as God's "righteous servant" (Isa. 53:11). He revealed God's law as a law of love.
The first table of the Ten Commandments reveals love to God, the second reveals love to other people. "Love is the fulfilling of the law (Rom. 13:10), and Jesus Christ is incarnate love. He put the magnifying glass of His holy righteousness, as it were, over the law, and it became "exceeding broad" (Ps. 119:96). The commandment said, "Thou shalt not kill" (Ex. 20:13. Through Christ the commandment includes all hatred, and therefore its scope is greatly magnified. The seventh commandment forbids adultery, unfaithfulness in marriage; but, through the magnifying glass of Christ's holy teaching, it includes even the lustful look or thought.
So the entire law of God is magnified through His life and reaches every heart and every human life. And since the transgression of the law is sin, and Jesus died for our sins upon the cross, His atoning sacrifice shows the holy nature and eternal character of God's law.
Notice that this prophetic promise pointed to Him who said, "I am not come destroy, but to fulfil" (Matt. 5:17).
O that the Lord would guide my ways
To keep His statues still!
O that my God would grant me grace
To know and do His will!
__Isaac Watts
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law" (Ps. 119:10).
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