Christ dwells in the Law

“The scriptures…are they which testify of Me.” (John 5:39).

Jesus is saying, “When you see David worship God, there I am.” “When you hear David singing and preaching in the great congregation, and leading his sheep, there I am.” “When you see Daniel watching over his captive people and praying for them, there I am.” “Every principle of the Law given to Moses was a transcript of My character. As the scriptures testify of Me, so does the Law testify of Me. The very essence of Me is the Law of God. Essentially, the Law is Me.”

Christ dwells in the Law; and the Law dwells in Christ

The Law dwells in Christ. In His Father’s Law Jesus meditated day and night. Thus He was like a tree planted by rivers, who brought for fruit in its season and whose leaf never withered. “The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which He hath planted.” (Psa. 104:16). Thus Jesus was a tree full of sap. Without measure, the life and strength of His Father powered His vitality. As a great Cedar of Lebanon, over the people and the religious leaders towered Christ’s righteousness, whose Father planted Him in the Earth. The scriptures testify of Him; the scriptures were written by Him. He dwells in the Bible; His Spirit lives in its words.

The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. (John 6:63).

So, it’s easy to see that the Law dwells in Christ. But, can we also see that Christ dwells in the Law? He is the Spirit of the Law. He is the Word of God; He is Wisdom.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.… In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. (John 1:1,4).

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.… She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. (Prov. 3:13,18).

She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. 

She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. 

Unto you, O men, I call; and My voice is to the sons of man. 

O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. 

Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of My lips shall be right things. 

For My mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to My lips. 

All the words of My mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. 

They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.…

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.…

The LORD possessed Me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old. 

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. 

When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. 

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought fort…

Then I was by Him, as one brought up with Him: and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him; 

Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth; and My delights were with the sons of men. 

Now therefore hearken unto Me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep My ways. 

Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. 

Blessed is the man that heareth Me, watching daily at My gates, waiting at the posts of My doors. (Prov. 8:1-9,12,22-25,30-34).

The Spirit of life in Christ Jesus is the Law.

The Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

With the mind I myself serve the Law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  (Rom. 8:2; Rom 7:25, 8:1).

Christ dwells in the Law and the Law dwells in Christ. Even as He said, “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me.” (John 14:10,11).

This does not assume that God is a Law. God is the Schoolmaster, and, according to Galatians 3:24, so also is His Law the Schoolmaster. But, that doesn’t make God the Law. Yet, it might seem that way because all that we hear from His mouth are royal commandments, and majestic pronouncements and decrees.

Seekers, will you stop seeking Him, and rather follow His Galatians 3:24 program? Will you cease from your shepherds with the ancient false gospel, and go to the Law in which Jesus dwells, the Law which will condemn your sins and Jesus who will destroy them? Or, will you be condemned and destroyed for not letting your sins be condemned and destroyed?

Fall on the stone mountain called Sinai! And then let God personally carry your dead body to “the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified Him” (Luke 23:33)! There fall on the Lamb! Over and over again, let your sins be grinded upon by the stones and eroded away by the blood, that you might be saved in the day of wrath. Daily let the stones and the blood cry out.  Will you be broken? It’s as basic as that. But, it’s only easy if you see His mute frame hanging on the cross, and also hear Him calling from the stone Law.