The Commandments And The Saints

Of old, God complained of Ephraim, "I have written to him the great things of My Law, but they were counted as a strange thing" (Hosea 8:12). Observe how God speaks of His Law: "The great things of My Law"! They are not precepts of little moment, to be lightly esteemed, and slighted; but are of great authority, importance, and value. But, as then, so during the last few years--they have been "counted as a strange thing". Christian teachers have vied with each other in denouncing the Law as a "yoke of bondage", or "a grievous burden". They have declared in trumpet tones that Christians should regard the Law as "a strange thing": that it was never designed for them: that it was given to Israel, and that the Law ended at the Cross of Christ. They have warned God's people to have nothing to do with the Ten Commandments. They have denounced as "Legalists" Christians of the past, who, like Paul, "served the Law" (Romans 7:25). They have affirmed that Grace rules the Law out of the Christian's life as absolutely as it did out of his salvation. Having sown the wind, is it any wonder that we are now reaping the whirlwind?