Chapter IX: Conclusion

Beloved, you have seen that the commandment to remember the sabbath day and keep it holy is confined to the law God gave to the Jews through Moses in the wilderness. It is not named in the history of God’s people during the 2,500 years prior to that time. _It is peculiar to the law of Moses._ It is not found at any other place in the Bible. It was not in force during the patriarchal dispensation. Even during the Mosaic age, or dispensation, it never applied to the Gentiles. It is not binding during the Christian dispensation. It has no place in the will of Christ. The only law in which it is found fulfilled its purpose, was fulfilled by Christ, and was taken out of the way when he died on the cross.

The law of Moses could not take away sins; the will of Christ can (Rom. 1:16). I beseech you by the mercies of God to believe the will of Christ, obey its commandments, and enjoy its promises. The will of Christ says to believers, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost” (Acts 2:38). The will of Christ says, “And now why tarriest thou? Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord” (Acts 22:16).

The law of Christ teaches us to worship God in spirit and in truth, by singing, praying, studying, teaching and by laying by in store and eating the Lord’s supper on the first day of the week. The law of Christ teaches us to love God with all our heart, power, soul, mind and strength; to love our neighbors as ourselves and to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. The will of Christ promises the faithful a crown of everlasting life. This is the perfect law of liberty. It is holy, just and good. It is complete. It is a glorious law. Its glory outshines that of all other laws as the sun outshines the stars (2 Cor. 3:10). It furnishes the man of God completely unto every good work. It is the law of life, rather than the law of death. It is the law of eternal happiness, rather than the law of condemnation.

Don’t you want to hear Christ and obey this new law enacted upon better promises, glorious in its origin, glorious in its power and purpose, and glorious because it leads to a life of eternal glory for all of those who faithfully follow it? While we stand and sing we bid you come to Jesus and let him save you from all your sins.