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    LESSON XI

    Questions to Lesson 11*Of whom do we inquire respecting the law? What do we inquire? What Psalm are you requested to read? What is said in verse 142? In verse 151? To abolish the law would abolish what? What is it to change one of the commandment? How many of them are truth? What truth is taught by the first? How do men change this truth to a lie? By having other gods, what truth do they deny? What truth does the fourth commandment teach? How can we testify for this truth? How long does it take to bear this testimony? By using the week to celebrate the resurrection, what do they force it to do? The law being the truth, what do we conclude?

    We will now inquire of David, the sweet Psalmist of Israel, how long the law of God, which existed in his day, was to last; whether the ten commandments were to be everlasting, or, were to be abolished, or changed at the death of Christ.BIC 26.2

    Please read Psalm 119, and you will notice that much is said about the word of God, his testimonies “which he has commanded,” his righteousness, his judgments, etc., being everlasting, or enduring for ever. All these could be shown to prove the perpetuity of the law of God. But we will examine a few texts only, and they shall be such as speak directly of the law and the commandments.BIC 27.1

    Verse 142. Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. Verse 151. All thy commandments are truth. The law being the truth, to abolish the law would be to abolish the truth. This is what those who understandingly oppose God’s law are trying to do. To change one of the commandments would be, in the words of an Apostle, to change the truth of God into a lie. Romans 1:25. All of them are truth. Each one teaches us a great truth. The first forbids our having other gods. What truth does it teach? That there is but one true God. Paul was speaking of those who break the first commandment when he said, Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator. How did they change the truth of God into a lie? By breaking the first commandment-having other gods-worshiping creatures or things created, and thus denying the truth of this precept, which teaches that there is but one God.BIC 27.2

    The fourth commandment tells the truth, as well as the rest. It teaches that God made the world in six days, and rested on the seventh. This was truth in the days of David, and it is the truth now. This truth cannot change, and how can the commandment be changed? Do not those who break this law change the truth of God into a lie, and worship the changer of times and laws rather than the great God, whose law is the truth? By working six days and resting on the seventh, we testify for this truth of God. It takes seven days to bear this testimony by our actions. The week was made for this very purpose. Can we then force the week to tell another story without changing the truth of God into a lie? Can the week celebrate the resurrection of Christ, or any other event except the creation?BIC 28.1

    The law being the truth, we come to this conclusion: that it cannot be abolished nor changed.BIC 29.1

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