Ten Commandments Great Moral Clock Of Universe

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 76, 2 August 1948, Page 5

Ten Commandments Great Moral Clock Of Universe

“It is rather alarming,” said Evangelist G. Ratcliffe in addressing a congregation in the Big Tent recently, “that we should hear so much today about the Ten Commandments being abolished at the Cross of our Lord.” Quoting from the Westminster Confession of Faith, various Church Manuals and authoritative Bible Commentators (Dr. Albert Barnes and Dr Adam Clarke) “it is encouraging,” said the speaker, “to be reminded that all the leading Protestant Churches believe in the eternal nature of God’s great moral law. Never forget that the law does not save-—it n§ver has and never can—its function is merely to point put sin, whereas it is the purpose of the Gospel to supply the remedy for sin. “The question is often asked today—What is sin?- The only answer the Bible gives to that question is found in I John 3:4 ‘Sin is the transgression of the law.’ The Ten Commandments are God’s great moral clock for the universe, and the presence of sin in the world today forever establishes the perpetuity of God’s law, or, as Dr. Alexander Campbell, founder of the Church of Christ, expresses it, ‘The everlasting Ten.’ Law and love are wonderfully blended in the life and death of our Lord, and to those Who follow in His steps, did He not say, ‘lf ye love me keep my commandments’.”