Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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precept, to seek his righteousness. This they also think
they have been doing, by certain codes of morals, but
they forget the definition of sin which they themselves accept
in word, which is, that "Sin is the transgression of
the law." We ask, "What law?"-they say, "God's law."
This is true, but when we take the records of the statutes
as found in the Bible, it is seen that there were certain
statutes made for the Israelites, who were four hundred
years in slavery, and in consequence must have been as
ignorant and incapable of comprehending anything beyond
this code as were the American slaves at the time of
their liberation. Accordingly the law would be made to
suit the people to whom it was given. Again, as reasonable
men, we must conclude that God who created the
world and man upon it, in view of his object, namely,
that the kingdom of heaven might be within man, would
of necessity give laws that were in harmony with his own
creative purposes.
Now we must reasonably conclude that all law is God's
law, and in order to avoid being a transgressor of that
law, ,we must know and keep it. This involves a knowledge
of all the laws that brought us into being, and that
perpetuate us. When we know all these laws, we will
understand every natural law, no matter where it finds
expression, let it be either in the material or mental
world. Of course, we know that this is beyond the ken
of the human family to-day, but how can we seek God's
righteousness,-that is, be righteous as God is righteous,
-or in other words, how can we be as free from transgressing
any of God's laws as is God himself, unless we
know them and how to avoid it.
The words, "to seek the kingdom of God" within ourselves,
is to seek to be absolutely obedient to all his laws;
for a kingdom implies a king and subjects. God is king,
and we must be his subjects; not as now, driven on like