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Show KINGDOM OF HEM IS AT KID, SAYS MINISTER "Though Christ fully Instructed his people relative to his attitude to the law o God, saying, 'Think not that I am come to destroy the law Matt. 5:17, yet many teach this text as though it read, 'Think that I am come to destroy the law,' and rejoice that they are not called to walk In the commandments that the Savior kept, ' said Evangelist Booth last night at the tent, corner of Washington avenue ave-nue and Twenty-sixth street. Continuing Contin-uing he said: "The human family will he judged by the law of God. God's law Is eternal, unchangeable, and will be the rule of the life to come. "Christ fulfilled the law of God Matt. 5:17. lie fulfilled all righteousness. righteous-ness. Matt. 3:15. Paul fulfilled the word of God. Col. 1:25 He says, all should fulfill the law of Christ. Eph. G.2. If the word fulfill means the law is abolished, then all righteousness, the word of God and the law of Christ is also abolished. To fulfill a law Is to meet the requirements of that law by obedience. This Christ did. He said, 'I have kept my Father's Fa-ther's commandments.' Jno. 15:10. Ho is our example In commandment keeping. We are to follow in his steps. Paul says, 'That the righteousness righteous-ness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who wnlk not after the law; but after the Spirit. Rom. 8 4 "The Lord has given to the human family a porfect standard in the law of God, a perfect example in Jesus Christ, and holds out all power in heaven and in earth to meet the standard, stan-dard, and follow in the steps of our example. God does not ask the human hu-man family to keep his commandments command-ments in our own strength Neither does he expect us to keep the commandments com-mandments to make ourselves Christian, Chris-tian, but we are to keep the commandments, command-ments, because we are the children of God. Christ said, 'If ye love Me. keep my commandments' Jno. 14:15. We can do all things through Christ " The topic tonight will be, "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven Is at Hand" |