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Perfect Obedience

What is Perfect Obedience? Psalm 19:7   Ps 19:7—¶ The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.   Now if God has a perfect law and obeying His law is "the whole duty of man" (Ec. 12:13, 14) what kind of life does God want?   A perfect life.   A perfect life is the only standard God wants   God's Standard Has Not Changed.— The gospel of good news was not to be interpreted as allowing men to live in continued rebellion against God by transgressing His just and holy law. Why cannot those who claim to understand the Scriptures , see that God's requirement under grace is just the same He made in Eden — perfect obedience to His law. In the judgment, God will ask those who profess to be Christians, Why did you claim to believe in My Son, and continue to transgress My law? Who required this at your hands—to trample upon My rules of righteousness? "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearke...

The Tabernacle after the Pattern

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  The Tabernacle of God in the Wilderness of Sin …He clothed His divinity with humanity, and came into the world, in order that His humanity might touch humanity and His divinity lay hold upon the throne of God in man's behalf. He came to seek the one lost sheep, to bring back the wandering one from the wilderness of sin to the heavenly fold.…—SW:25.2 …the tabernacle built by Moses was made after a pattern. The Lord directed him: "According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it." And again the charge was given, "Look that thou make them after their pattern, which was showed thee in the mount." Exodus 25:9, 40. And Paul says that the first tabernacle "was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices;" that its holy places were "patterns of things in the heavens;" that the priests who offered gifts accordi...