The Perfect Law
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. Romans 3:31
Because the law of the Lord is perfect, and therefore changeless, it is impossible for sinful men, in themselves, to meet the standard of its requirement. This was why Jesus came as our Redeemer. It was His mission, by making men partakers of the divine nature, to bring them into harmony with the principles of the law of heaven. When we forsake our sins and receive Christ as our Saviour, the law is exalted. The apostle Paul asks, "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law" (Romans 3:31).
The new covenant promise is, "I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them" (Hebrews 10:16). While the system of types which pointed to Christ as the Lamb of God that should take away the sin of the world was to pass away at His death, the principles of righteousness embodied in the Decalogue are as immutable as the eternal throne. Not one command has been annulled, not a jot or tittle has been changed. Those principles that were made known to man in Paradise as the great law of life will exist unchanged in Paradise restored. When Eden shall bloom on earth again, God's law of love will be obeyed by all beneath the sun. (Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, 50)
Reflection: God's law from the beginning of time through the eternal ages will always be the same. It is the law of love. Allow God to write His laws in your heart today, and every day.
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. Romans 3:31
Because the law of the Lord is perfect, and therefore changeless, it is impossible for sinful men, in themselves, to meet the standard of its requirement. This was why Jesus came as our Redeemer. It was His mission, by making men partakers of the divine nature, to bring them into harmony with the principles of the law of heaven. When we forsake our sins and receive Christ as our Saviour, the law is exalted. The apostle Paul asks, "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law" (Romans 3:31).
The new covenant promise is, "I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them" (Hebrews 10:16). While the system of types which pointed to Christ as the Lamb of God that should take away the sin of the world was to pass away at His death, the principles of righteousness embodied in the Decalogue are as immutable as the eternal throne. Not one command has been annulled, not a jot or tittle has been changed. Those principles that were made known to man in Paradise as the great law of life will exist unchanged in Paradise restored. When Eden shall bloom on earth again, God's law of love will be obeyed by all beneath the sun. (Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, 50)
Reflection: God's law from the beginning of time through the eternal ages will always be the same. It is the law of love. Allow God to write His laws in your heart today, and every day.
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