The Law and Scripture

The Law and Scripture

A Kingdom Catechism

The Law is the acorn to the oak of divine revelation.

Q 17:    Are the Ten Commandments of any other use?

A 17:    As a guide to love, the Ten Commandments provide direction in interpreting the rest of Scripture and in guiding every aspect of the life of faith. (Matt. 22:34-40; 1 Jn. 5:2, 3; 1 Cor. 7:17-19)

I have mentioned that the Law of God is the acorn to the oak of divine revelation. Whatever the rest of Scripture teaches, it is, at least to some extent, contained in the Law of God. Whatever the Law teaches is further developed and fulfilled by subsequent revelation.

There is no essential discontinuity between the Law of God and the rest of Scripture, as some suppose (“I’m not under Law, I’m under grace.”) While the Old Covenant has been fulfilled by the New, the Old having been weak, the “weakness” of the Old Covenant, and of the Law, was not in the form or content of the revelation, but in the hearts and flesh of those commanded to obey it. We cannot understand the rest of Scripture aright apart from a good understanding of the Law of God.

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T.M. Moore, editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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