The Personless Law
It sorrows me deeply to see the great effort made by Christians in trying to be good when Jesus isn’t the center of attraction, just being good is. I see different emotions in different faces, but it all ties in to acting good and behaving good, just for the sake of behavior or an act. It leads to trying to satisfy people’s judgment and to the protection of reputations. People become the objects of worship, and God is left out of the picture completely. It exalts the strong and destroys the weak. This makes God very angry. (Rom. 1:18).
It leads souls into a bondage unlike what the secular people of the world must deal with. It is worse because it seems so right, when it is empty of the source to be good and right. Jesus is the light that lightens every man that comes into the world. But when He is eclipsed by simply good morale behavior, then the law which was given for life becomes death to us. (Rom. 7:13). With Jesus, the law is safe. With Jesus, we are safe with the law and it is safe with us. Without Jesus as the fullness of glory before our wondering eyes, the law is dangerous to us and to everyone around us. Because, without Jesus we kill ourselves and everyone we meet, thinking we are doing God service. (Jn. 16:2). It’s only a law of love when Jesus is our full focus and we see the Law of God shining out His mercy and justice, grace and truth. “The law is good, if a man use it lawfully.” (1Tim. 1:8).
Jesus, the Lamb of God. Jesus burned on the cross under His Father’s wrath; Christ was the Burnt Offering, a sweet savour unto God. “It pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief... Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin.” (Is. 53:10).
In the atonement the character of God is revealed. The mighty argument of the cross. GC p. 500.
The mystery of the cross explains all other mysteries. In the light that streams from Calvary the attributes of God which had filled us with fear and awe appear beautiful and attractive. Mercy, tenderness, and parental love are seen to blend with holiness, justice, and power. While we behold the majesty of His throne, high and lifted up, we see His character in its gracious manifestations, and comprehend, as never before, the significance of that endearing title, “Our Father.” GC p.652.
Let’s look into the Bible, to the Law and the testimonies of men moved by the Spirit of God. But let us also look through them to discern the One behind and through them all, their originator and inspiration—the Son of God.
A personless Bible can be worse than no Bible at all. To know the Bible without seeking to know the Person behind it all can be more destructive and useful to Satan than to not have the Bible. The Papacy proved that for 1260 years. And if anyone doesn’t believe that, just wait around a little longer and we will see the horrors of the Papacy again; this time in concert with Protestants who will have the Bible under their arms.
Paul’s fight wasn’t against the law, but against a Personless Law. He wasn’t against the Law of God, but against a law of Moses, and even the Law of God, that wasn’t used to reveal God.
Those whom the devil had deluded into serving him through a personless law battled fiercely and undauntingly against Paul. Because when we do not determinedly keep the true God and His character of self-sacrificing love and grace in the forefront, sin naturally causes our minds to leave the peace and humility that comes with grace, and to decline into self-absorption and self-preservation, even while holding onto the law and the prophets and apostles and Spirit of Prophecy.
It is not only by resistance but by neglect that the soul is destroyed. DA 323.
Then Satan takes advantage of our natural frame of mind to reject God’s Law, and assumes God’s name and moves in to take His place. The devil changes that law to be more palatable to our perverted hearts and then rules over us with an iron fist, and leads the whole world to believe that that is how God rules.
We must find Jesus in every word of scripture—in every psalm, every statute, every event in sacred history. He is its every inspiration. Those words weren’t Bible writers’ words; they weren’t prophets speaking; Jesus was speaking those words.
Christ as manifested to the patriarchs, as symbolized in the sacrificial service, as portrayed in the law, and as revealed by the prophets, is the riches of the Old Testament. Christ in His life, His death, and His resurrection, Christ as He is manifested by the Holy Spirit, is the treasure of the New Testament. Our Saviour, the outshining of the Father’s glory, is both the Old and the New. COL p. 126.
The law is cold and hard. Our hearts need to be touched before we can properly handle stone.
It leads souls into a bondage unlike what the secular people of the world must deal with. It is worse because it seems so right, when it is empty of the source to be good and right. Jesus is the light that lightens every man that comes into the world. But when He is eclipsed by simply good morale behavior, then the law which was given for life becomes death to us. (Rom. 7:13). With Jesus, the law is safe. With Jesus, we are safe with the law and it is safe with us. Without Jesus as the fullness of glory before our wondering eyes, the law is dangerous to us and to everyone around us. Because, without Jesus we kill ourselves and everyone we meet, thinking we are doing God service. (Jn. 16:2). It’s only a law of love when Jesus is our full focus and we see the Law of God shining out His mercy and justice, grace and truth. “The law is good, if a man use it lawfully.” (1Tim. 1:8).
Jesus, the Lamb of God. Jesus burned on the cross under His Father’s wrath; Christ was the Burnt Offering, a sweet savour unto God. “It pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief... Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin.” (Is. 53:10).
In the atonement the character of God is revealed. The mighty argument of the cross. GC p. 500.
The mystery of the cross explains all other mysteries. In the light that streams from Calvary the attributes of God which had filled us with fear and awe appear beautiful and attractive. Mercy, tenderness, and parental love are seen to blend with holiness, justice, and power. While we behold the majesty of His throne, high and lifted up, we see His character in its gracious manifestations, and comprehend, as never before, the significance of that endearing title, “Our Father.” GC p.652.
Let’s look into the Bible, to the Law and the testimonies of men moved by the Spirit of God. But let us also look through them to discern the One behind and through them all, their originator and inspiration—the Son of God.
A personless Bible can be worse than no Bible at all. To know the Bible without seeking to know the Person behind it all can be more destructive and useful to Satan than to not have the Bible. The Papacy proved that for 1260 years. And if anyone doesn’t believe that, just wait around a little longer and we will see the horrors of the Papacy again; this time in concert with Protestants who will have the Bible under their arms.
Paul’s fight wasn’t against the law, but against a Personless Law. He wasn’t against the Law of God, but against a law of Moses, and even the Law of God, that wasn’t used to reveal God.
Those whom the devil had deluded into serving him through a personless law battled fiercely and undauntingly against Paul. Because when we do not determinedly keep the true God and His character of self-sacrificing love and grace in the forefront, sin naturally causes our minds to leave the peace and humility that comes with grace, and to decline into self-absorption and self-preservation, even while holding onto the law and the prophets and apostles and Spirit of Prophecy.
It is not only by resistance but by neglect that the soul is destroyed. DA 323.
Then Satan takes advantage of our natural frame of mind to reject God’s Law, and assumes God’s name and moves in to take His place. The devil changes that law to be more palatable to our perverted hearts and then rules over us with an iron fist, and leads the whole world to believe that that is how God rules.
We must find Jesus in every word of scripture—in every psalm, every statute, every event in sacred history. He is its every inspiration. Those words weren’t Bible writers’ words; they weren’t prophets speaking; Jesus was speaking those words.
Christ as manifested to the patriarchs, as symbolized in the sacrificial service, as portrayed in the law, and as revealed by the prophets, is the riches of the Old Testament. Christ in His life, His death, and His resurrection, Christ as He is manifested by the Holy Spirit, is the treasure of the New Testament. Our Saviour, the outshining of the Father’s glory, is both the Old and the New. COL p. 126.
The law is cold and hard. Our hearts need to be touched before we can properly handle stone.
posted by David | 6:51 AM
3 Comments:
when I read this current blog and came to the point where you said we must find Christ in every scriputere in every statue and every envit in sacred......... My mind ran straight to a hymn Take the world but give me Jesus.
It has made my day's devotion.
Daniel
Thanks Daniel,
Jesus needs to be all the world to us. He certainly must be our daily devotion.
Love you, brother,
David
One more thing,
When Jesus is all the world to us, then the Law of God will be put into it's correct perspective because it will gleam with true beauty. Through Jesus we are reconciled to God; and thus to God's Law.
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