God's Law Changeless and
Eternal
Think not
that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy,
but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot
or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Matt. 5:17, 18.
If Satan's work
had succeeded in heaven the law of God would have been changed, but this could
not be, for His law was a transcript of His character and as unchangeable as
His character. If any change was possible in the law of God it would have been
made then and there and saved the rebellion in heaven. But as it was not
altered to meet the request of Satan, he . . . lost his high and holy position
in the heavenly courts.
After his fall
he worked upon the minds of Adam and Eve and seduced them from their loyalty. .
. . Now if the law of God could have been changed and altered to meet man in
his fallen condition, then Adam would have been pardoned and retained his home
in Eden; but the penalty of transgression was death, and Christ became man's
substitute and surety. Then was the time, could the law of God have been
changed, to have made this change and retained Christ in the heavenly courts,
that the immense sacrifice made to save a fallen race might have been avoided.
But no, the law of God was changeless in its character and therefore Christ
gave Himself a sacrifice in behalf of fallen man, and Adam lost Eden and was
placed with all his posterity upon probation.
Had the law of
God been changed in one precept since the expulsion of Satan from heaven, he
would have gained on earth after his fall that which he could not gain in
heaven before his fall. He would have received all that he asked for. We know
that he did not. . . . The law . . . remains unalterable as the throne of God,
and the salvation of every soul is determined by obedience or disobedience. . .
. Jesus, by the law of sympathetic love, bore our sins, took our punishment, and
drank the cup of the wrath of God apportioned to the transgressor. . . . He
bore the cross of self-denial and self-sacrifice for us, that we might have
life, eternal life. Will we bear the cross for Jesus?
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