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to fulfill it in perfect and entire obedience. In this way He magnified
the law and made it honorable. In His life He revealed its spiritual
nature. In the sight of heavenly beings, of worlds unfallen, and of a
disobedient, unthankful, unholy world, He fulfilled the far-reaching
principles of the law.
He came to demonstrate the fact that humanity, allied by living
faith to divinity, can keep all the commandments of God. He came
to make plain the immutable character of the law, to declare that
disobedience and transgression can never be rewarded with eternal life.
He came as a man to humanity, that humanity might touch humanity,
while divinity laid hold upon the throne of God.
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But in no case did He come to lessen the obligation of men to be
perfectly obedient. He did not destroy the validity of the Old Testament
Scriptures. He fulfilled that which was predicted by God Himself. He
came, not to set men free from that law, but to open a way whereby they
might obey that law and teach others to do the same.—
The Review
and Herald, November 15, 1898
.
God Does Not Annul His Law—The Lord does not save sinners
by abrogating His law, the foundation of His government in heaven
and earth. God is a judge, the guardian of justice. The transgression
of His law in a single instance, in the smallest particular, is sin. God
cannot dispense with His law, He cannot do away with its smallest
item, in order to pardon sin. The justice, the moral excellence, of the
law must be maintained and vindicated before the heavenly universe.
And that holy law could not be maintained at any smaller price than
the death of the Son of God.—
The Review and Herald, November 15,
1898
.
God’s Laws Not Annulled by Him—God does not annul His
laws. He does not work contrary to them. The work of sin He does
not undo. But He transforms. Through His grace the curse works out
a blessing.—
Education, 148
(1903).
(B) God’s Law in the Physical World
Laws That Flow From Love—The laws of God have their foun-
dation in the most immutable rectitude and are so framed that they
will promote the happiness of those who keep them.—
The Review
and Herald, September 18, 1888
. (
Sons and Daughters of God, 267
.)