January 25 Evening Devotional | Under a New Rule | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Evening, January 25 | “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." —Romans 3:31

This Evening's Scripture Reading: Romans 3:21-31

“But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
“Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.”

Devotional Video Transcript:

When the believer is adopted into the Lord’s family, his relationship to old Adam and the law ceases at once; but then he is under a new rule, and a new covenant. Believer, you are God’s child; it is your first duty to obey your heavenly Father. A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father’s faintest wish, the least intimation of his will.

Does he bid you fulfil a sacred ordinance? It is at your peril that you neglect it, for you will be disobeying your Father. Does he command you to seek the image of Jesus? Is it not your joy to do so? Does Jesus tell you, “Be perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect”? Then not because the law commands, but because your Saviour urges, you will labor to be perfect in holiness. Does he bid his saints love one another? Do it, not because the law says, “Love your neighbor,” but because Jesus says, “If you love me, keep my commandments;” and this is the commandment that he has given unto you, “that you love one another.” Are you told to distribute to the poor? Do it, not because charity is a burden which you dare not shirk, but because Jesus teaches, “Give to him that asks of you.”

Does the Word say, “Love God with all your heart”? Look at the commandment and reply, “Ah! commandment, Christ has fulfilled you already — I have no need, therefore, to fulfill you for my salvation, but I rejoice to yield obedience to you because God is my Father now and he has a claim upon me, which I would not dispute.” May the Holy Spirit make your heart obedient to the constraining power of Christ’s love, that your prayer may be, “Make me to go in the path of your commandments; for therein do I delight.” Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

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