From July to September 1977, a series of three articles appeared in our church paper, The Messenger and News Review. These were titled, “Unfolding the Law”. Here are those studies, formatted as a booklet, with the addition of a diagram. 41p
About the studies, Fred wrote:
Beginning with this issue, is a series of three articles on the law in Galatians. We are deeply impressed with the truths which are now emerging from this part of the Word of God. We have long known that the law of God is to be the very centre of the great controversy in its final and finishing battle.
For this battle the enemies of the truth are becoming highly prepared and organized with every possible argument assembled to prove that the law of God is no longer binding on Christians. The message of Paul to the Galatians has been an area of Scripture which those who contest that the law is done away with have used with great effectiveness to make their point.
But if there is one thing which must be clear to all true believers, it is that Paul never believed or taught that the law of God has but a limited period of validity. He taught right along with the Saviour that the law of righteousness is as eternal as the God of whose character it is the transcript. Therefore, the writing of the letter to the Galatians was never designed to teach that the law of God disappeared with the death of Christ.
Therefore, it follows that when the message to the Galatians is used to prove that the law has been abrogated, it is being misused and misinterpreted.
However, to merely know that they are being misinterpreted is not good enough for us for it is necessary also to perceive in what way the misinterpretation is taking place. The time now is when such light is available to us so that the complete answer is provided with which to meet the antagonists of the law of God…
The necessity of being able to answer the rejectors of the law on their own ground, is only a small part of the blessing to be received from this study. Vastly more glorious is the blessing of the light which comes to our own souls through this larger perception of what Paul was saying to the Galatians then and to us today.
Contents
- Introduction
- The Added Law
- Correct Distinctions
- The Life Taker
