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In Harmony With Heaven, March 18
Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall
offend them.
Psalm 119:165
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Adam taught his descendants the law of God, and it was handed
down from father to son through successive generations. But ... there
were few who accepted it and rendered obedience. By transgression the
world became so vile that it was necessary to cleanse it by the Flood
from its corruption. The law was preserved by Noah and his family, and
Noah taught his descendants the Ten Commandments. As men again
departed from God, the Lord chose Abraham, of whom He declared,
“Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments,
my statutes, and my laws.”
Genesis 25:5
....
Concerning the law proclaimed from Sinai, Nehemiah says, “Thou
camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven,
and gavest them
right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and
commandments.”
Nehemiah 9:13
. And Paul ... declares, “The law is
holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.”
Romans 7:12
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The whole world will be judged by the moral law according to
their opportunity of becoming acquainted with it, whether by reason, or
tradition, or the written Word.
We behold in it the goodness of God, who by revealing to men the
immutable principles of righteousness seeks to shield them from the
evils that result from transgression....
The law is an expression of God’s idea. When we receive it in Christ,
it becomes our idea. It lifts us above the power of natural desires and
tendencies, above temptations that lead to sin. “Great peace have they
which love thy law; and nothing shall offend them”—cause them to
stumble. There is no peace in unrighteousness; the wicked are at war
with God. But he who receives the righteousness of the law in Christ is
in harmony with heaven.
As received in Christ, it [God’s law] works in us the purity of
character that will bring joy to us through eternal ages.
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