The Lord commands by the same prophet: "Bind up the testimony, seal the law among My disciples." Isaiah 8:16.
--The seal of God's law is found in the fourth commandment. This only, of all the ten, brings to view both the name and the title of the Lawgiver.
*It declares Him to be the Creator of the heavens and the earth, and thus shows His claim to reverence and worship above all others.
*Aside from this precept, there is nothing in the Decalogue to show by whose authority the law is given.
--When the Sabbath was changed by the papal power, the seal was taken from the law. The disciples of Jesus are called upon to restore it by exalting the Sabbath of the fourth commandment
--The seal of God's law is found in the fourth commandment. This only, of all the ten, brings to view both the name and the title of the Lawgiver.
*It declares Him to be the Creator of the heavens and the earth, and thus shows His claim to reverence and worship above all others.
*Aside from this precept, there is nothing in the Decalogue to show by whose authority the law is given.
--When the Sabbath was changed by the papal power, the seal was taken from the law. The disciples of Jesus are called upon to restore it by exalting the Sabbath of the fourth commandment
to its rightful position as the Creator's memorial
and the sign of His authority.
--While conflicting doctrines and theories abound, the law of God is the one unerring rule by which all opinions, doctrines, and theories are to be tested. Says the prophet: "If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Verse 20.
--Sabbath was kept by Adam in his innocence in holy Eden; from Abel to righteous Noah, to Abraham, to Jacob. When the chosen
people were in bondage in Egypt, many, in the midst of prevailing idolatry, lost their knowledge of God's law; From that day to the present the knowledge of God's law has been preserved in the earth, and the Sabbath of the fourth commandment has been kept. Though often in the midst of reproach and persecution, a constant testimony has been borne to the perpetuity of the law of God and the sacred obligation of the creation Sabbath.
--Thus saith the Lord: "Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My law;
--Sabbath was kept by Adam in his innocence in holy Eden; from Abel to righteous Noah, to Abraham, to Jacob. When the chosen
--Thus saith the Lord: "Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My law;
--fear ye not the reproach of men,
--neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but My righteousness shall be forever, and My salvation from generation to generation." Isaiah 51:7, 8.
--And the Bible plainly teaches that a time is approaching when the laws of the state will so conflict with the law of God that whosoever would obey all the divine precepts must brave reproach and punishment as an evildoer.
--The great obstacle both to the acceptance and to the promulgation of truth is the fact that it involves inconvenience and reproach. We should choose the right because it is right, and leave consequences with God.
--The great obstacle both to the acceptance and to the promulgation of truth is the fact that it involves inconvenience and reproach. We should choose the right because it is right, and leave consequences with God.
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