The Royal Law Measures Character
If you really fulfil the royal law, according to scripture, … you do well. James 2:8, RSV. The standard by which to measure character is the royal law. The law is the sin detector. By the law is the knowledge of sin. But the sinner is constantly being drawn to Jesus by the wonderful manifestation […]
All May Wear the Crown
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 1 Corinthians 9:24. The competitors in the ancient games, after they had submitted to self-denial and rigid discipline, were not even then sure of the victory. “Know ye not,” Paul asked, “that […]
Christ’s New Commandment
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. John 13:34. Do you in your words, in your spirit, in your actions, resemble Christ? If in word and spirit you represent the character of Christ, then you are Christians; for to […]
The Law and Gospel in Harmony
We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Corinthians 3:18. After Christ died on the cross as a sin offering, the ceremonial law could have no force. Yet it […]
Exalting God’s Law
So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God. Numbers 15:40, RSV. All the instruction given to the Israelites of old in regard to teaching the commandments to their children is for us. If we become careless, and neglect to urge the necessity of observing these commandments, as I […]
Obeying God’s Law
For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? Deuteronomy […]
