C. I. Scofield: Christ’s relation
Mar 25, 2003 Uncategorized
C. I. Scofield:
Christ’s relation to the law of Moses may be thus summarized:
- Christ was made under the law.
- He lived in perfect obedience to the law.
- He was a minister of the law to the Jews, clearing it from rabbinical sophistries, enforcing it upon those who professed to obey it, but confirming the promises made to the fathers under the Mosaic Covenant.
- He fulfilled the types of the law by His holy life and sacrificial death.
- He bore, vicariously, the curse of the law that the Abrahamic Covenant might profit all who believe.
- He brought out, by His redemptive work, all who believe–from the place of servants under the law to the place of sons.
- He mediated by His blood the New Covenant of assurance and grace in which all believers stand, so establishing the "law of Christ" with its precepts of righteous living made possible by the indwelling Spirit.
