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The Law in the Heart

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Feb 24, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 8.

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The Law in the Heart.

By John Orr Corliss

WHEN looking forward to the first advent of Christ, and describing His work in the earth, the psalmist said of Him: "I delight to do Thy will, O My God; yea, Thy law is within My heart." Ps. 40:8.
To be one with the Father (John 10:30), Jesus must have kept His Father's commandments from the heart. (John 15:10). In order to have His disciples be like Himself, the Lord confirmed God's everlasting covenant upon them. This is how He did it. Quoting from Jeremiah, He said: "This is the covenant; . . . I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people. . . . All shall know Me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." Heb. 8:10-12.
All this will we experience when we receive the law into our hearts. We are, then like Christ, and our sins are all forgotten before God. J. O. CORLISS.