Bible Readings — Bible Questions Answered

Disobedience to Law

How does the Word of God describe a transgressor of the law? BR-ASI9 245.1

“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.” James 2:10, 11. BR-ASI9 245.2

Note.—“The ten commandments are not ten different laws; they are one law. If I am being held up in the air by a chain with ten links and I break one of them, down I come, just as surely as if I break the whole ten. If I am forbidden to go out of an enclosure, it makes no difference at what point I break through.”—D. L. Moody, Weighed and Wanting (1898 ed.), p. 119. BR-ASI9 245.3

“The ten words of Sinai were not ten separate commandments,” said G. Campbell Morgan, “but ten sides of the one law of God.”—The Ten Commandments (Revell, 1901 ed.), p. 11. BR-ASI9 245.4

“As he [a Methodist] loves God, so he keeps his commandments; not only some, or most of them, but all, from the least to the greatest. He is not content to ‘keep the whole law, and offend in one point;’ but has, in all points, ‘a conscience void of offence towards God and towards man.’ ”—John Wesley, The Character of a Methodist, in Works, vol. 8 (1830 ed.), p. 344. BR-ASI9 245.5

For what did Christ reprove the Pharisees? BR-ASI9 245.6

“ ‘Why do you, too,’ He retorted, ‘transgress God’s commands for the sake of your tradition?’ ” Matthew 15:3, Weymouth. BR-ASI9 245.7

Consequently, how did Christ value their worship? BR-ASI9 245.8

“But in vain they do worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” Matthew 15:9. BR-ASI9 245.9

Can one know God if he doesn’t keep His commandments? BR-ASI9 245.10

“He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” 1 John 2:4. BR-ASI9 245.11