Waggoner on the Gospel of John - Ellet J. Waggoner

faith? God forbid; yea, we establish the law."
(Rom. 3:31) The law is the perfection of the
character of Christ. Whoever finds it a hardship to
keep the law, thereby proclaims his dissatisfaction
with Christ; and whoever reviles and rejects the
law, is at the same time reviling and rejecting
Christ. Why should one wish to do so? If we
ourselves were required to exhibit in our lives all
the virtues of the law, then we might well
complain, for they are not only contrary to the
desires of the natural man, but impossible of
performance. (Rom. 8:7) But "it is God which
worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good
pleasure." (Phil. 2:13) By the blessed will power of
Christ, we may be made both willing to do the law,
and doers of it. He not only makes us able to do the
will of God, but lovers of that will. Those words,
"It is finished," contain for us all the blessedness
and joy and power of the new creation.
The Family of Christ
We should not close this lesson without noting
that which it teaches as to the relatives of Christ,
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