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Christ Came to Earth to Fulfill the Law, February 18
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am
not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Matthew 5:17
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God chose Israel as the depositary of priceless treasure of truth for all
nations, and He gave them His law as the standard of the character they
were to develop before the world, before angels, and before the unfallen
worlds.... Through disobedience and disloyalty God’s chosen nation devel-
oped a character exactly opposite to the character God designed them to
develop by obeying His law. They placed their own mold and superscrip-
tion upon the truth, removing from it the superscription of God.... The law
of God was being buried beneath the minutiae of outward forms,—such
as the frequent washing of the hands before eating, and the washing of
pots and cups. Tithes were exacted on simple garden herbs. To those who
made so much of these minor things, Christ said, “...these ought ye to have
done, and not to leave the other undone.” ...
Amid all this confusing din of voices there was need of a teacher direct
from the heavenly universe to speak from inspired lips to human hearts,
and to proclaim the testing truths so important to every one....
As a Teacher sent from God, Christ’s work was to explain the true
significance of the laws of God’s government.... Resetting truth in the
framework of God’s own law, He caused it to shine in its original, heavenly
luster.... He enthroned the divine precepts in companionship with the
royalty of eternal, uncorrupted truth bearing the sanction of God, the
Source of all truth....
Christ came not only to vindicate the law before the inhabitants of this
world, but by His life to settle forever the immutability of God’s law.... He
[God] never lets go one who commits the keeping of the soul to His care.
Having loved them because of their love of Jesus, He loves them to the
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Ellen G. White
Manuscript 125, 1901
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