19 NOVEMBER (1876)
Christ the end of the law
‘For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.’ Romans 10:4
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Galatians 3:23–4:7
‘Christ is the end of the law’ in the sense that he is the termination of it. His people are not under it as a covenant of life. We ‘are not under the law, but under grace’. The old covenant as it stood with father Adam was, ‘This do and thou shalt live’; its command he did not keep and consequently he did not live, nor do we live in him, since in Adam all died. The old covenant was broken and we became condemned thereby, but now, having suffered death in Christ, we are no more under it, but are dead to it.
Brethren, at this present moment, although we rejoice to do good works, we are not seeking life through them; we are not hoping to obtain divine favour by our own goodness, nor even to keep ourselves in the love of God by any merit of our own. Chosen, not for our works, but according to the eternal will and good pleasure of God, and called, not of works, but by the Spirit of God, we desire to continue in this grace and return no more to the bondage of the old covenant. Since we have put our trust in an atonement provided and applied by grace through Jesus Christ, we are no longer slaves but children, not working to be saved, but saved already and working because we are saved. Neither that which we do, nor even that which the Spirit of God works in us, is to us the ground and basis of the love of God toward us, since he loved us from the first, because he would love us, unworthy though we were; and he loves us still in Christ and looks upon us not as we are in ourselves, but as we are in him, washed in his blood and covered in his righteousness; ‘ye are not under the law’.
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.647 v.4—William Cowper, 1779)
‘Then all my servile works were done
A righteousness to raise;
Now, freely chosen in the Son,
I freely choose His ways.’
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 334.
Christ the end of the law
‘For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.’ Romans 10:4
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Galatians 3:23–4:7
‘Christ is the end of the law’ in the sense that he is the termination of it. His people are not under it as a covenant of life. We ‘are not under the law, but under grace’. The old covenant as it stood with father Adam was, ‘This do and thou shalt live’; its command he did not keep and consequently he did not live, nor do we live in him, since in Adam all died. The old covenant was broken and we became condemned thereby, but now, having suffered death in Christ, we are no more under it, but are dead to it.
Brethren, at this present moment, although we rejoice to do good works, we are not seeking life through them; we are not hoping to obtain divine favour by our own goodness, nor even to keep ourselves in the love of God by any merit of our own. Chosen, not for our works, but according to the eternal will and good pleasure of God, and called, not of works, but by the Spirit of God, we desire to continue in this grace and return no more to the bondage of the old covenant. Since we have put our trust in an atonement provided and applied by grace through Jesus Christ, we are no longer slaves but children, not working to be saved, but saved already and working because we are saved. Neither that which we do, nor even that which the Spirit of God works in us, is to us the ground and basis of the love of God toward us, since he loved us from the first, because he would love us, unworthy though we were; and he loves us still in Christ and looks upon us not as we are in ourselves, but as we are in him, washed in his blood and covered in his righteousness; ‘ye are not under the law’.
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.647 v.4—William Cowper, 1779)
‘Then all my servile works were done
A righteousness to raise;
Now, freely chosen in the Son,
I freely choose His ways.’
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 334.
19 NOVEMBER (1876)
Christ the end of the law
‘For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.’ Romans 10:4
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Galatians 3:23–4:7
‘Christ is the end of the law’ in the sense that he is the termination of it. His people are not under it as a covenant of life. We ‘are not under the law, but under grace’. The old covenant as it stood with father Adam was, ‘This do and thou shalt live’; its command he did not keep and consequently he did not live, nor do we live in him, since in Adam all died. The old covenant was broken and we became condemned thereby, but now, having suffered death in Christ, we are no more under it, but are dead to it.
Brethren, at this present moment, although we rejoice to do good works, we are not seeking life through them; we are not hoping to obtain divine favour by our own goodness, nor even to keep ourselves in the love of God by any merit of our own. Chosen, not for our works, but according to the eternal will and good pleasure of God, and called, not of works, but by the Spirit of God, we desire to continue in this grace and return no more to the bondage of the old covenant. Since we have put our trust in an atonement provided and applied by grace through Jesus Christ, we are no longer slaves but children, not working to be saved, but saved already and working because we are saved. Neither that which we do, nor even that which the Spirit of God works in us, is to us the ground and basis of the love of God toward us, since he loved us from the first, because he would love us, unworthy though we were; and he loves us still in Christ and looks upon us not as we are in ourselves, but as we are in him, washed in his blood and covered in his righteousness; ‘ye are not under the law’.
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.647 v.4—William Cowper, 1779)
‘Then all my servile works were done
A righteousness to raise;
Now, freely chosen in the Son,
I freely choose His ways.’
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 334.
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