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The Perpetuity of the Law of God

By C. H. Spurgeon

“For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” Matt. 5:18.

I gather from our text two things upon which I shall speak at this time. The first is that the law of God is perpetual: “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law.” The meaning is that even in the least point it must abide till all be fulfilled. Secondly, we perceive that the law must be fulfilled. Not one jot or one tittle shall pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. He who came to bring in the gospel dispensation here asserts that he has not come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it.

PART I

The Law Perpetual

First, the law of God must be perpetual. There is no abrogation of it, nor amendment of it. It is not to be toned down or adjusted to our fallen condition; but every one of the Lord’s righteous judgments abideth forever. I would urge three reasons which will establish this teaching.

In the first place, our Lord Jesus declares that he did not come to abolish it. His words are most express: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.” And Paul tells us with regard to the gospel, “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid; yea, we establish the law.” Rom. 3:31. The gospel is the means of the firm establishment and vindication of the law of God.

Jesus Came to Explain It

Jesus did not come to change the law, but he came to explain it, and that very fact shows that it remains; for there is no need to explain that which is abrogated. Upon one particular point in which there happened to be a little ceremonialism involved, namely, the keeping of the Sabbath, our Lord enlarged, and showed that the Jewish idea was not the true one. The Pharisees forbade even the doing of works of necessity and mercy, such as rubbing ears of corn to satisfy hunger, and healing the sick. Our Lord Jesus showed that it was not at all according to the mind of God to forbid these things. In straining over the letter, and carrying an outward observance to excess, they had missed the spirit of the Sabbath law, which suggested works of piety such as truly hallow the day. He showed that—

Sabbatic Rest

was not mere inaction, and he said: “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” He pointed to the priests who labored hard at offering sacrifices, and said of them: “The priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless.” They were doing divine service, and were within the law. To meet the popular error he took care to do some of his grandest miracles upon the Sabbath day; and though this excited great wrath against him, as if he were a law breaker, yet he did it on purpose that they might see that the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath, and that it was meant to be a day for doing that which honors God and blesses men. O that men knew how to keep the spiritual Sabbath by ceasing from all servile work, and from all work done for self!

The Rest of Faith

is the true Sabbath, and the service of God is the most acceptable hallowing of the day. O that the day were wholly spent in serving God and doing good. The sum of our Lord’s teaching was that works of necessity, works of mercy, and works of piety are lawful on the Sabbath. He did explain the law in that point and in others, yet the explanation did not alter the command, but only removed the rust of tradition which had settled upon it. By thus explaining the law he confirmed it; he could not have meant to abolish it, or he would not have needed to expound it.

Our Lord Jesus Christ, in addition to explaining the law and pointing out its spiritual character, also unveiled—

Its Living Essence;

for when one asked him, “Which is the great commandment in the law?” he said, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” In other words, he has told us, All the law is fulfilled in this—

“Thou Shalt Love.”

There is the pith and marrow of it. Does any man say to me, “You see, then, instead of the ten commandments, we have received the two commandments, and these are much easier?” I answer that this reading of the law is not in the least easier. Such a remark implies a want of thought and experience. These two precepts comprehend the ten at their fullest extent, and cannot be regarded as the erasure of a jot or tittle of them. Whatever difficulties surround the ten commands are equally found in the two, which are their sum and substance. If you love God with all your heart, you must keep the first table; and if you love your neighbor as yourself, you must keep the second table. If any suppose that the law of love is an adaptation of the moral law to man’s fallen condition, they greatly err. I can only say that the supposed adaptation is no more adapted to us than the original law. If there could be conceived to be any difference in difficulty, it might be easier to keep the ten than the two; for if we go no deeper than the letter, the two are more exacting, since they deal with the—

Heart and Soul and Mind.

The ten commands mean all that the two express; but if we forget this, and look only at the wording of them, I say it is harder for a man to love God with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his mind, and with all his strength, and his neighbor as himself, than it would be merely to abstain from killing, stealing, and false witness. Christ has not, therefore, abrogated or at all moderated the law to meet our helplessness; he has left it in all its sublime perfection, as it always must be left; and he has pointed out how deep are its foundations, how elevated are its heights, how immeasurable are its length and breadth. Like the laws of the Medes and the Persians, God’s commands cannot be altered; we are saved by another method.

The Law Lived by Christ

To show that he never meant to abrogate the law, our Lord Jesus has embodied all its commands in his own life. In his own person there was a nature which was perfectly conformed to the law of God; and as was his nature such was his life. He could say, “Which of you convinceth me of sin?” and again, “I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.”

He was so perfect and pure, so infinitely good, and so complete in his agreement and communion with the Father, that he in all things carried out the Father’s will. The Father said of him, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.” Point out, if you possibly can, any way in which Christ has violated the law, or left it unfulfilled. There was never an unclean thought or rebellious desire in his soul; he had nothing to regret or to retract. He was thrice tempted in the wilderness, and the enemy had the impertinence even to suggest idolatry, but he instantly overthrew the adversary. The prince of this world came to him, but he found nothing in him.

“My dear Redeemer and my Lord, I read my duty in thy Word; But in thy life the law appears Drawn out in living characters.”

Once more, that the Master did not come to alter the law is clear, because after having embodied it in his life, he willingly gave himself up to bear its penalty, though he had never broken it, bearing the penalty for us, even as it is written, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.” “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” If the law had demanded more of us than it ought to have done, would the Lord Jesus have endured the penalty which resulted from its too severe demands? I am sure he would not. But because the law asked only what it ought to ask, namely,—

Perfect Obedience,

and exacted of the transgressor only what it ought to exact, namely, death as the penalty for sin,—death under divine wrath,—therefore the Saviour went to the tree, and there bore our sins, and purged them once for all. He was crushed beneath the load of our guilt, and cried, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death,” and at last, when he had borne—

“All that incarnate God could bear, With strength enough, but none to spare,”

he bowed his head and said, “It is finished.” Our Lord Jesus Christ gave a greater vindication to the law by dying, because it had been broken, than all the lost can ever give by their miseries. He has borne all that was due from his people, and the law is defrauded of nothing. By his death he has vindicated the honor of God’s moral government, and made it just for him to be merciful. When—

The Lawyer Himself Submits to the Law,

when the Sovereign himself bears the extreme penalty of that law, then is the justice of God set upon such a glorious high throne that all admiring worlds must wonder at it. If therefore it is clearly proved that Jesus was obedient to the law, even to the extent of death, he certainly did not come to abolish or abrogate it. And if he did not remove it, who can do so? If he declares that he came to establish it, who shall overthrow it?

The Law Perpetual by Nature

But, secondly, the law of God must be perpetual from its very nature; for does it not strike you the moment you think of it that right must always be right, truth must always be truth, and purity must always be purity? Before the ten commandments were published at Sinai, there was still that same law of right and wrong laid upon men by the necessity of their being God’s creatures.

Right Was Always Right

before a single command had been committed to words. When Adam was in the garden, it was always right that he should love his Maker, and it would always have been wrong that he should have been at cross-purposes with his God; and it does not matter what happens in this world, or what changes take place in the universe, it never can be right to lie, or to commit adultery, or murder, or theft, or to worship an idol of God. I will not say that the principles of right and wrong are as absolutely self-existent as God, but I do say that I cannot grasp the idea of God himself as existing apart from his being always holy and always true; so that the very idea of right and wrong seems to me to be necessarily permanent, and cannot possibly be shifted. You cannot bring right down to a lower level; it must be where it always is. Right is right eternally, and cannot be wrong. You cannot lift up wrong and make it somewhat right; it must be wrong while the world standeth. Heaven and earth may pass away, but not the smallest letter or accent of the moral law can possibly change. In spirit the law is eternal.

It Does Not Ask Too Much

The law of God is no more than God might most righteously ask of us. If God were about to give us a more lenient law, it would be an admission on his part that he asked too much at first. Can that be supposed? And, after all, some justification for the statement of the wicked and slothful servant when he said, “I feared thee, because thou art an austere man”? It cannot be. For God to alter his law would be an admission that he made a mistake at first, that he put poor, imperfect men (we are often hearing that said) under too rigorous a regime, and therefore he is now prepared to abate his claims, and make them more reasonable.

A Specious but False Doctrine

It has been said that man’s moral inability to keep the perfect law exempts him from the duty of doing so. This is very specious, but it is utterly false. Man’s inability is not of the kind which removes responsibility; it is moral, not physical. Never fall into the error that moral inability will be an excuse for sin. What when a man becomes such a liar that he cannot speak the truth, is he thereby exempted from the duty of truthfulness? If your servant owes you a day’s labor, is he free from the duty because he has made himself so drunk that he cannot serve you? Is a man freed from a debt by the fact that he has squandered the money, and therefore cannot pay it? Is a lustful man free to indulge his passions because he cannot understand the beauty of chastity? This is dangerous doctrine. The law is a just one, and man is bound

by it, though sin has rendered him incapable of doing so. I should like to ask any brother who thinks that God has put us under an altered rule: Which particular part of the law is it that God has relaxed?

Which Precept

do you feel free to break? Which law is it that God has exempted you from? That law of worshiping him only? Do you propose to have another god? Do you intend to make graven images? The fact is that when we come to detail, we cannot afford to lose a single link of this wonderful golden chain, which is perfect in every part as well as perfect as a whole. The law is—

Absolutely Complete

and you can neither add to it nor take from it. “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.” If, then, no part of it can be taken down, it must stand, and stand forever.

A third reason I will give why the law must be perpetual is that to suppose it altered is most dangerous. To take away from the law its perpetuity is, first of all, to take away from it its power to convince of sin. Is it so that I, being an imperfect creature, am not expected to keep a perfect law? Then it follows that I do not sin when I break the law; and if all that is required of me is that I am to do according to the best of my knowledge and ability, then I have—

A Very Convenient Rule Indeed,

and most men will take care to adjust it so as to give themselves as much latitude as possible. By removing the law you have done away with sin; for sin is the transgression of the law, and where there is no law there is no transgression. When you have done away with sin, you may as well have done away with the Saviour and with salvation; for they are by no means needful. When you have reduced sin to a minimum, what need is there of that great and glorious salvation which Jesus Christ has come to bring into the world? Brethren, we must have none of this; it is evidently a way of mischief.

By lowering the law you weaken its power in the hands of God as a convictor of sin. “By the law is the knowledge of sin.”

It Is the Looking-Glass

which shows us our spots, and that is a most useful thing, though nothing but the gospel can wash them away.

It is only a pure and perfect law that the Holy Spirit can use in order to show us our depravity and sinfulness. Lower the law, and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt. This is a very serious loss to the sinner, rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion.

You have also taken away from the law its power to shut us up to the faith of Christ.

What Is the Law of God For?

For us to keep in order to be saved by it?—Not at all. It is sent in order to show us that we cannot be saved by works, and to shut us up to be saved by grace. But if you make out that the law is altered so that a man can keep it, you have left him his old legal hope, and he is sure to cling to it. You need a perfect law that shuts man right up to—

Hopelessness Apart From Jesus,

that puts him into an iron cage, and locks him up, and offers him no escape but by faith in Jesus; then he begins to cry, “Lord, save me by grace, for I perceive that I cannot be saved by my own works.” This is how Paul describes it to the Galatians: “The Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was—

Our Schoolmaster

to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.” I say you have deprived the gospel of its choicest auxiliary when you have set aside the law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ. No; it must stand, and stand in all its terrors, to drive men away from self-righteousness, and constrain them to fly to Christ. They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy law. Therefore the law serves a most necessary and blessed purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.

To alter the law is to leave us without any law at all. A sliding scale of duty is—

An Immoral Invention,

fatal to the principles of law. If each man is to be accepted because he does his best, we are all doing our best. Is there anybody that is not? If we take their words for it, all our fellow men are doing as well as they can, considering their imperfect natures. Self-righteousness builds itself a nest even in the worst character. This is the man’s talk: “Really, if you knew me, you would say I have been a good fellow to do as well as I have. Consider what a poor, fallen creature I am; what strong passions were born in me; what temptations to vice beset me, and you will not blame me much. After all, I dare say God is as satisfied with me as with many who are a great deal better, because I had so few advantages.” Yes, you have shifted the standard, and every man will now do that which is right

in his own eyes, and claim to be doing his best. If you shift the standard pound weight or the bushel measure, you will certainly never get full weight or measurement again. There will be—

No Standard

to go by, and each man will do his best with his own pounds and bushels. If the standard be tampered with, you have taken away the foundation upon which trade is conducted; and it is the same in soul matters—abolish the best rule that ever can be, even God’s own law, and there is no rule left worthy of the name. What a fine opening this leaves for vainglory! No wonder that men talk of perfect sanctification if the law has been lowered. There is nothing at all remarkable in our getting up to the rule if it is conveniently lowered for us. I believe I shall be perfectly sanctified when I keep God’s law without omission or transgression, but not till then. If any man says that he is perfectly sanctified because he has come up to a modified law of his own, I am glad to know what he means; for I have no longer any discussion with him. I see nothing wonderful in his attainment. Sin is any want of conformity to the law of God, and until we are perfectly conformed to that law in all its spiritual length and breadth, it is idle for us to talk about perfect sanctification. No man is perfectly clean till he accepts absolute purity as the standard by which he is to be judged. So long as there is in us any coming short of the perfect law, we are not perfect. What a humbling truth this is! The law shall not pass away, but it must be fulfilled. This truth must be maintained; for if it goes, our tackle is loosed, we cannot well strengthen the mast; the ship goes all to pieces; she becomes—

A Total Wreck.

The gospel itself would be destroyed could you destroy the law. To tamper with the law is to trifle with the gospel. “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”

PART II

The Law Must Be Fulfilled

I come to show, secondly, that the law must be fulfilled. I hope there are some in this place who are saying, “We cannot fulfill it.” That is exactly where I want to bring you. Salvation by the works of the law must be felt to be impossible by every man who would be saved. We must learn that salvation is of grace through faith in Jesus Christ our Lord, and not by our own doings or feelings; but this is a doctrine no one will receive till he has learned the precious truth that salvation by the works of the law can never come to any man of woman born. Yet the law must be fulfilled. Many will say with Nicodemus, “How can these things be?” I answer.

The Law Is Fulfilled in Christ

and by faith we receive the fruit thereof. First, as I have already said, the law is fulfilled in the matchless sacrifice of Jesus Christ. If a man has broken a law, what does the law do with him? It says: “I must be honored. You have broken my command which was sanctioned by the penalty of death. Inasmuch as you did not honor me by obedience, but dishonored me by transgression, you must die.” Our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the great covenant representative of his people, their second Adam, stood forward on the behalf of all who are in him, and presented himself as a victim to divine justice. Since his people were guilty of death, he, as their covenant head, came under death, in their place and stead. It was a glorious thing that such representative death was possible, and it was only so because of the original constitution of the race as springing from a common father, and placed under a single head. Inasmuch as our fall was by one Adam, it was possible for us to be—

Raised by Another Adam.

“As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” It became possible for God, upon the principle of representation, to allow substitution. Our first fall was not by our personal fault, but through the failure of our representative; and now in comes our second and grander representative, the Son of God, and he sets us free, not by our honoring the law, but by his doing so. He came under the law by his birth, and being found as a man loaded with the guilt of all his people, he was visited with its penalty. The law lifts its bloody axe, and it encloses our glorious Head that we may go free. It is the Son of God that honors the law by dying, the just for the unjust. “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” There is death demanded, and in Christ death is presented.

Life for Life Is Rendered

—an infinitely precious life instead of the poor lives of men. Jesus has died, and so the law has been fulfilled by the endurance of its penalty; and being fulfilled, its power to condemn and punish the believer has passed away.

Secondly, the law has been fulfilled again for us by Christ in his life. I have already gone over this, but I want to establish you in it. Jesus Christ, as our head and representative, came into the world for the double purpose of bearing the penalty and at the same time keeping the law. One of his main designs in coming to earth was to bring in—

“Everlasting Righteousness.”

“As by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” The law requires a perfect life, and he that believeth in Jesus Christ presents to the law a perfect life, which he has made his own by faith. It is not his own life, but Christ is made of God unto us righteousness, even to us who are one with him. “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” That which Jesus did is counted as though we did it, and because he was righteous—

DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAITH? GOD FORBID: YEA, WE ESTABLISH THE LAW. ROM. 3:31

God Sees Us in Him,

and counts us righteous upon the principle of substitution and representation. O how blessed it is to put on this robe and to wear it, and so to stand before the Most High in a better righteousness than ever his law demanded; for that demanded the perfect righteousness of a creature, but we put on the absolute righteousness of the Creator himself, and what can the law ask more? It is written, “In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name wherewith he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” “The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honorable.”

Aye, but that is not all. The law has to be—

Fulfilled in Us Personally

in a spiritual and gospel sense. “Well,” say you, “but how can that be?” I reply in the words of our apostle: “What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh,” Christ has done and is doing by the Holy Spirit, “that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Regeneration is a work by which the law is fulfilled; for when a man is born again, there is placed in him a new nature, which loves the law of God, and is perfectly conformed therein. The new nature which God implants in every believer at the time he is born again is incapable of sin: it cannot sin; for it is born of God.

That New Nature

is the offspring of the eternal Father; and the Spirit of God dwells in it, and with it, and strengthens it. It is light, it is purity, it is, according to the Scripture, the living and incorruptible seed which liveth and abideth forever. If incorruptible, it is sinless; for sin is corruption, and corrupts everything that it touches. The apostle Paul, when describing his inward conflicts, showed that he himself, his real and best self, did keep the law; for he says, “So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God.” Rom. 7:25. He consented to the law that it was good, which showed that he was on the side of the law; and though sin dwelt in his members led him into transgression, yet his new nature did not allow it, but hated and loathed it, and cried out against it as one in bondage. The newborn soul delights in the law of the Lord, and there is within it a quenched life which aspires after absolute perfection, and will never rest till it pays to God perfect obedience, and comes to be like God himself.

This which is begun in regeneration is continued, and grows till it ultimately arrives at absolute perfection. That will be seen in the world to come; and O, what a fulfillment of the law will be there! The law will admit no man to heaven till he is—

Perfectly Conformed to It,

but every believer shall be in that perfect condition. Our nature shall be refined from all its dross, and be as pure as gold. It will be our delight in heaven to be holy. There will be nothing about us then to kick against a single commandment. We shall there know in our own hearts the glory and excellency of the divine will, and our will shall run in the same channel. We shall not imagine that the precepts are rigorous; they will be our own will as truly as they are God’s will. Nothing which God has commanded, however much of self-denial it requires now, will require any self-denial from us then. Holiness will be our element, our delight. Our nature will be entirely conformed to the nature and mind of God, as holiness and goodness; and then the law will be fulfilled in us, and we shall stand before God, having washed our robes

and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, and at the same time being ourselves—

Without Spot, or Wrinkle,

or any such thing. Then shall the law of the Lord have eternal honor from our immortal being. O, how shall we rejoice in it! We delight in it after the inward man now, but then we shall delight in it as to our risen bodies, which shall be charmed to be instruments of righteousness unto God forever and ever. No appetite of those risen bodies, no want and no necessity of them, shall then lead the soul astray; but our whole body, soul, and spirit shall be perfectly conformed unto the divine mind. Let us long and pant for this. We shall never attain it except by believing in Jesus. Perfect holiness will never be reached by the works of the law, for works cannot change the nature; but by faith in Jesus, and the blessed work of his Holy Spirit, we shall have it, and then I believe it will be among our songs of glory that heaven and earth pass away, but the word of God and the law of God shall stand fast forever and ever. Amen.

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Love the Sum of Both the Law and the Gospel

The central Person in the Bible is Christ; the central principle is love, the love revealed in him.

When the eloquent Christian philosopher, Adolphe Monod, of Paris, was on his deathbed, he gathered round him some of the members of his church, that they might commemorate the dying love of Christ in the breaking of bread. On the last of these occasions, when too weak from suffering to do more than speak a few broken words, Adolphe Monod uttered a memorable sentence, embodying the sum and substance of his faith and teaching. Raising himself up, with solemn emphasis he said, "God has loved us, this is the whole gospel; let us love God, this is all its moral."

Love is the sum of both the law and the gospel. It is the old command as well as the new revelation. God made man in his image, and being love himself, said, "Thou shalt love." On this divine command, in its twofold bearing, the command to love God and man, hung "all the law and the prophets." Herein is the whole of duty. Love worketh no ill, but only good; hence, "love is the fulfilling of the law." But the command to love could not produce love. An example was needed, and more than that, a motive. That motive is found joined with example and precept in the words of Jesus Christ, "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." . . .

"A new commandment," new not in its nature, but in its spring, its object, its measure. This is the love that seeketh not its own, that bears all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things; never faileth. Amid the perishable, it proves enduring. Prophecies shall fail, knowledge shall vanish, yea, heaven and earth shall pass away, but faith, hope, and love shall remain forever; and of these three immortal graces the greatest is love, for God himself is love.

The source of love is not the hills of heaven, but the heart of God. Wherever God is, love is. Love fills immensity, and inhabits eternity, and its name is holy. Love rules the universe. Love redeems the lost. In its greatness it stoops that it may raise the low. In its graces it suffers to save. Jesus Christ is but incarnate love; love which has come down from inaccessible heights, clothed with the lowly vesture of humanity. Love was his motive, love his message, love his precept, love his passion, love his reward. The magic of his might is love. The heaven to which he leads is love. Love is the law of angels. Love is the light of the New Jerusalem. Love is the old law of heaven, older than the everlasting hills, newly written in the hearts of God's redeemed. Love is the theme of the Bible; the soul of its unity; the root that bears its branches, the fruit upon its boughs. Love is the bond of the moral universe; the mighty law of gravitation which unites the beings of which it is composed; the sum of its system; the alpha of its genesis; the Omega of its goal.—"Creation Centered in Christ," H. Grattan Guinness, D. D., London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1896, pages 95-97.

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