The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable (Isa. 42:21). The law of God was spoken with audible voice from Mount Sinai. Again it was repeated by Jesus Christ in its spiritual principles in His sermon on the mount. Our Lord, in His own life, was the Word made flesh, which "dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth" (John 1:14). Jesus appeared among men as God's "righteous servant" (Isa. 53:11). He revealed God's law as a law of love. The first table of the Ten Commandments reveals love to God, the second reveals love to man. "Love is the fulfilling of the law" (Rom. 13 : 10), and Jesus Christ is incarnate love. He put the magnifying glass of His holy righteousness, as it were, over the law and it became "exceeding broad" (Ps. 119:96). The commandment said, "Thou shalt not kill" (Ex. 20: 13). Through Christ the commandment includes all hatred, and therefore its scope is greatly magnified. The seventh commandment forbids adultery, unfaithfulness in marriage; but, through the magnifying glass of Christ's holy teaching, it includes even the lustful look or thought. So the entire law of God is magnified through His life and reaches every heart and every human life. And since the transgression of the law is sin, and Jesus died for our sins upon the' cross, His atoning sacrifice shows the holy nature and eternal character of God's law. Notice that this prophetic promise pointed to Him who said, "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil" (Matt. 5: 17). "0 that the Lord would guide my ways To keep His statutes still! 0 that my God would grant me grace To know and do His will!" -Issac Watts "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law " (Ps. 119:18). "And he (the 'little horn' power) shall speak great words against the most High and shall wear out the saints of the most High and \cf2 think to change times and laws; and they shall be given into his hands until a time and times and the dividing of times." Daniel 7:25 No matter how hard the image of the beast tries, no matter how hard any government or kingdom or church tries, no one can change God's laws. Even nature obeys them. The man who refuses to obey God's laws, who attempts to change them or decide which is important and which is not, is in rebellion. Obedience is about love and trust. This is why the only time Christ told His followers "how" to love Him; all He said was, "If you love me, keep my commandments." He was speaking plain and simple truth. Nothing more need be said. Three times in Revelations, the prophet of God describes God's true church. (church meaning a group of people, not a denomination) Rev. 12:17, Rev.14:12, Rev. 19:10. A persistent unwillingness to learn and follow the most clear and blatant laws of God, written by HIS OWN HAND IN STONE, is a sign of rebellion against God and in time, a hard heart will consume one to the point that he disregards our Lord as his savior all together and will wonder after the beast and his image. The Scriptures tell us that those who refuse knowledge will be caused to believe a lie and will be lost. II Thess. 2:9-12
