Exodus 20.2, 3

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.”

Deuteronomy 5.6, 7

“‘I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.’”

Psalm 73.25; Romans 1.21-25

The Lord. The Law comes to the redeemed of the Lord from an eternal and personal Being, Yahweh, the great I Am. He is holy and unchanging; hence, we should expect that whatever He might ordain in the way of moral instruction for His people would be of the same character. The Law of God is unchanging, as is God Who gave it; it is therefore also eternal. It ever abides as a standard to be used in bringing to expression the character and purposes of God in human society.

Consequently, the Law of God is the absolute and final standard for human moral conduct. The works of the Law are written on the heart of every human being (Rom. 2.14, 15), who bears the image and likeness of God. Thus, by living in conformity to the teaching of the divine Law, any human being may expect to find the fullness of God’s purpose for life. Holy Scripture is the narrative of the tremendous lengths God Himself has gone to enable humankind to realize the full and abundant life for which they have been created. Incapable, because of sin, of directing their hearts to the selfless love of God and neighbor, encoded in His Law, God worked through the life, death, and resurrection of His own Son, Jesus Christ, to provide all who believe in Him the new heart and new mind they need, under the tutelage of the indwelling Spirit of God, so that they might be able to understand and obey His Law.

The Law of God has its source in the unchanging and eternal Yahweh, God of heaven and earth. He is a God of holiness and love. We should expect, therefore, that, like Him Who gave it, God’s Law would be eternal and unchanging as well, and designed to guide human beings in the paths of holiness and love.