Christ Is the Center of the Law
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. Romans 3:31. Of all professing Christians, Seventh-day Adventists should be foremost in uplifting Christ before the world. The proclamation of the third angel’s message calls for the presentation of the Sabbath truth. This truth, with others included in the […]
Results of Obedience to Physical Laws
These are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: that thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee … all the […]
Obedience to Physical and Moral Laws
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1. We should preserve our strength to labor in the cause of God when our labor is needed. We should be careful not to take upon ourselves […]
Christ Magnifies the Law
The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable. Isaiah 42:21. Were the law understood apart from Christ, it would have a crushing power upon sinful men, blotting the sinner out of existence. But by understanding the law in connection with Christ, receiving Him by faith […]
The Law Is Complete in Itself
I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. Isaiah 45:19. With the setting aside of the Bible has come a turning away from God’s law. The doctrine that men are released from obedience to the divine precepts has weakened the force of moral obligation and opened the floodgates of iniquity upon the […]
The Complete Saviour
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8. The thought that the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us, not because of any merit on our part, but as a free gift from God, is a precious thought. The enemy of God […]
