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through our Lord Jesus Christ.” “Do we then make void the law through
faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.” “For what the law could
not do, in that it was weak through the flesh”—it could not justify man,
because in his sinful nature he could not keep the law—“God sending
His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin
in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
Romans 5:1
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3:31
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8:3, 4
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Beginning with the first gospel promise and coming down through
the patriarchal and Jewish ages to the present time, there has been a
gradual unfolding of the purposes of God in the plan of redemption.
The clouds have rolled back, the mists and shades have disappeared,
and Jesus, the world’s Redeemer, stands revealed. He who proclaimed
the law from Sinai is the same that spoke the Sermon on the Mount.
The great principles of love to God are only a reiteration of what He had
spoken through Moses. The Teacher is the same in both dispensations.
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