False Assumption about The Law

False Assumption about The Law

"But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons" (Galatians 4:4-5)

Men of our day have much to say concerning Christ and the Old Testament.  It is quite common to hear, or to read, that men of this enlightened twentieth century wish to follow the religion of Jesus.  They, because of their superior intellect and greater insight into spiritual matters, so they say, do not wish to have anything to do with the Old Testament.  There are those who claim even to see a difference between the Jehovah of the Old Testament and the God of the New.  They look at Christ’s statements in the Sermon on the Mount and then begin to talk about the horrid conception of God that they claim is found in the Old Testament, they call Him a tribal God and proceed to thank their god that they have been removed from a thought of God that is so unrefined and barbarous as to desire a blood sacrifice.  They flee from a God who would punish a people by death for such minor offenses as complaining against Moses or hiding away their loot in a tent.  Yet they are incapable of comprehending the fact that Jesus Christ associated Himself with the God of the Old Testament and with the Old Testament itself in such a way as to render the Book and the person of God and Christ absolutely inseparable.

It is not our purpose here to make a study of the great subjects that are involved in such a question.  Suffice it to say that any logical mind must be forced to the conclusion that the God of Jesus Christ was the God of the Old Testament and that He Himself accepted the Scriptures as the very Word of God.  The difficulties which some men seem to find in accepting our Lord Jehovah, as He is revealed throughout the Bible, do not arise from the facts that are to be found concerning Him, but from the blindness of men’s sinful hearts.  They fail to see either the wonderful holiness of God or the intrinsic sinfulness of sin.  When men catch a glimpse of what sin really is and then consider it against the background of the holiness of God, every problem is resolved and the difficulties fade away.

Dr. Barnhouse challenges the false assumption that the Old Testament is not applicable to the true knowledge of God.  Christ came under the Law to fulfill the Law and the prophets, and bring the long promised redemption foreshadowed and testified to by the Law.

Further Reading: Matthew 5:17-20