“I saw that it was impossible for God to alter or change His Law, to save lost, perishing man; therefore He suffered His beloved Son to die for man’s transgression.”  1SG:27; 1SP:48.

 

“The Father could not abolish nor change one precept of His Law to meet man in his fallen condition.  But the Son of God, Who had in unison with the Father created man, could make an atonement for man acceptable to God, by giving His life a Sacrifice, and bearing the wrath of His Father.”  1SP:51.

 

“[235] The Will of God is expressed in the precepts of His Holy Law, and the principles of this Law are the principles of Heaven.  The angels of Heaven attain unto no higher knowledge than to know the Will {Law} of God, and to do His Will is the highest service that can engage their powers.

 

“[236] The First and Second Commandments spoken by Jehovah are precepts against idolatry; for idolatry, if practiced, would lead men to great lengths in sin and rebellion, and result in the offering of human sacrifices.  God would guard against the least approach to such abominations.  The first four Commandments were given to show men their duty to [237]

 

“God.  The Fourth is the connecting link between the great God and man.  The Sabbath, especially, was given for the benefit of man, and for the honor of God.  These last six Precepts show the duty of man to his fellow-man.

 

“The Sabbath was to be a sign between God and His people forever.  In this manner was it to be a sign -- all who should observe the Sabbath, signified by such observance that they were worshipers of the Living God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth.  The Sabbath was to be a sign between God and His people as long as He should have a people upon the earth to serve Him.”  1SP:235-237.

 

“[261] The Law of God existed before man was created.  The angels were governed by it.  Satan fell because he transgressed the principles of God’s government.  After Adam and Eve were created, God made known to them His Law.  It was not then written, but was rehearsed to them by Jehovah.

 

“The Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment was instituted in Eden.  After God had made the world, and created man upon the earth, He made the Sabbath for man.  After Adam’s sin and fall, nothing was taken from the Law of God.  The principles of the Ten Commandments existed before the fall, and were of a character suited to the condition of a holy order of beings.  After the fall, the principles of those Precepts were not changed, but additional Precepts were given to meet man in his fallen state.

 

“A system was then established requiring the sacrificing of beasts, to keep before fallen man that which the serpent made Eve disbelieve, that the penalty of disobedience is death.  The transgression of God’s Law made it necessary for Christ to die a sacrifice, and thus make a way possible for man to escape the penalty, and yet the honor of God’s Law be preserved.  The system of sacrifices was to teach man humility, in view of his fallen condition, and lead him to repentance, and to trust in God alone, through the promised [262]

 

“Redeemer, for pardon for past transgression of His Law.  If the Law of God had not been transgressed, there never would have been death, and there would have been no need of additional Precepts to suit man’s fallen condition.

 

“Adam taught his descendants the Law of God, which Law was handed down to the faithful through successive generations.  The continual transgression of God’s Law called for a flood of waters upon the earth.  The Law was preserved by Noah and his family, who for right-doing were saved in the ark by a miracle of God.  Noah taught his descendants the Ten Commandments.  The Lord preserved a people for Himself from Adam down, in whose hearts was His Law.  He says of Abraham. . .”  1SP:261-262.

 

“He did not trust them to be taught by any one, not even His angels, but spoke His Law with an audible voice in the hearing of all the people.  He did not, even then, trust them to the short memory of a people who were prone to forget His requirements, but wrote them with His Own holy finger upon tables of stone.  He would remove from them all possibility of mingling with His holy Precepts any tradition, or of confusing His Requirements with the practices of men.

 

“He then came still closer to His people, who were so readily led astray, and would not leave them with merely the Ten Precepts of the Decalogue.  He Commanded Moses to write, as He should bid him, Judgments and Laws, giving minute directions in regard to what He required them to perform, and thereby guarded the Ten Precepts which He had engraved upon the Tables of Stone.  These specific Directions and Requirements were given to draw erring man to the obedience of the Moral Law, which He is so prone to transgress.”  1SP:264.

 

I would admonish you to look up in Ellen White’s writings, using as your search, “transcript of His character.”  Here is only one:  ‘“Christ Came to our world to represent the character of God as it is represented in His Holy Law, for His Law is a transcript of His character.”  2SM:106; 1MR:44; 17MR:8.

 

“If the Law of God could have been changed or abolished, then Christ need not have come to a fallen world to suffer the consequence of man's transgression.  Jesus came to explain the relation of the Law of God to man, and to illustrate Its Precepts by His Own example of obedience.”  2SP:218; DA:307-308; GC:466.

 

“God will not make the slightest compromise with sin.  If He could have done this, Christ need not have come to our world to suffer and die.  No conversion is genuine which does not change both the character and the conduct of those who accept the truth.”  3BC:1144.

 

“Christ came to earth to vindicate the claims of His Father’s Law, and His death shows the immutability of that Law.  But Satan thrusts upon man the fallacy, that the Law of God was abolished by the death of Christ, and he thus leads many professed Christians to transgress the Father’s Commandments, while they assume devotion to His Son.”  3SP:195.1.

 

“They did not realize that their strength was in their obedience to that Law contained in the Ark, which was a representative of God Himself.”  4aSG:105.

 

“In the twentieth of Exodus we find the Commandments that God has given as Ruler of the world.”  21MR:88.

 

“He gave all Heaven, from which we may draw strength and efficiency, that we be not repulsed or overcome by our great adversary.  But the Love of God does not lead Him to excuse sin.  He did not excuse it in Satan; He did not excuse it in Adam or in Cain; nor will He excuse it in any other of the children of men.  He will not connive at our sins or overlook our defects of character.  He expects us to overcome in His Name.”  COL:316.

 

“All His [God’s] biddings [Commandments] are enablings.”  COL:333; RH, November 9, 1897 paragraph 5.

 

“God has given no Commandments which cannot be obeyed by all.  His Laws sanction no unreasonable or selfish restrictions.”  DA:204.

 

“God has given us His holy Precepts, because He loves mankind.  To shield us from the results of transgression, He reveals the principles of righteousness.  The Law is an expression of the thought of God; when received in Christ, it becomes our thought.  It lifts us above the power of natural desires and tendencies, above temptations that lead to sin.  God desires us to be happy, and He gave us the Precepts of the Law that in obeying Them we might have joy.”  DA:308.

 

“The Saviour’s life of obedience maintained the claims of the Law; it proved that the Law could be kept in humanity, and showed the excellence of character that obedience would develop.”  DA:309.

 

“Had it been possible for the Law to be changed or abrogated, then Christ need not have died.  But to abrogate the Law would be to immortalize transgression, and place the world under Satan’s control.  It was because the Law was changeless, because man could be saved only through obedience to its precepts, that Jesus was lifted up on the cross.  Yet, the very means by which Christ established the Law Satan represented as destroying it.  Here will come the last conflict of the great controversy between Christ and Satan.”  DA:762.5.

 

“Every Command is a promise; accepted by the will, received into the soul, It brings with it the life of the Infinite One.  It transforms the nature and re-creates the soul in the image of God.”  Ed:126.

 

“Had it been possible for the Law to be changed or set aside, then Christ need not have died to save man from the penalty of sin.  The death of Christ, so far from abolishing the Law, proves that it is immutable.”  GC:466.

 

“But in Heaven, service is not rendered in the spirit of legality.  When Satan rebelled against the Law of Jehovah, the thought that there was a Law came to the angels almost as an awakening to something unthought of.  In their ministry the angels are not as servants, but as sons.  There is perfect unity between them and their Creator.  Obedience is to them no drudgery.  Love for God makes their service a joy.  So in every soul wherein Christ, the hope of glory, dwells, His words are re-echoed, ‘I delight to do Thy will, O My God:  yea, Thy Law is within my heart.’  Psalm 40:8.”  MB:109.

 

“Many who teach that the Law of God is not binding upon man, urge that it is impossible for him to obey its precepts.  But if this were true, why did Adam suffer the penalty of transgression?  The sin of our first parents brought guilt and sorrow upon the world, and had it not been for the goodness and mercy of God, would have plunged the race into hopeless despair.  Let none deceive themselves.  ‘The wages of sin is death.’  The Law of God can no more be transgressed with impunity now than when sentence was pronounced upon the father of mankind.”  PP:61.

 

“If the Law could be changed, man might have been saved without the sacrifice of Christ; but the fact that it was necessary for Christ to give His life for the fallen race, proves that the Law of God will not release the sinner from its claims upon him.”  PP:70.

 

“Amid the awful glory of Sinai, Christ declared in the hearing of all the people the Ten Precepts of His Father’s Law.  It was He Who gave to Moses the Law engraved upon the tables of stone.”  PP:366.  See also Isaiah 42:21.

 

“Christ volunteered to maintain and vindicate the holiness of the Divine Law.  He was not to do away the smallest part of Its claims in the work of redemption for man, but in order to save man and maintain the sacred claims and justice of His Father’s Law, He gave Himself a Sacrifice for the guilt of man.  Christ’s life did not in a single instance detract from the claims of His Father’s Law, but through firm obedience to all Its Precepts, and by dying for the sins of those who had transgressed It, He established Its immutability.”  RH, February 24, 1874.

 

“It is the sophistry of Satan that the death of Christ brought in grace to take the place of the Law.  The death of Jesus did not change, or annul, or lessen in the slightest degree, the Law of Ten Commandments.  That precious grace offered to men through a Saviour’s blood, establishes the Law of God.”  RH, March 8, 1881.

 

“The very fact of the death of God’s dear Son to redeem man, shows the immutability of the Divine Law.”  RH, March 8, 1881.

 

“Now, while we point the sinner to Jesus Christ as the one who can take away sin, we must explain to him what sin is, and show him the necessity of being saved from his sins, not in them.  He must be made to feel that he must cease to transgress the Law of God, which is to cease to sin. . . The Law of God given from Sinai is a copy of the Mind and Will of the Infinite God.  It is sacredly revered by the holy angels.  Obedience to Its requirements will perfect Christian character, and restore man, through Christ, to his condition before the fall.”  RH, September 27, 1881 paragraph 16.

 

“If the Law of God could have been changed, or one Precept of It altered to meet man’s fallen condition, then the Son of God need not have Come into our world and died.  But because the Law of God was changeless in Its character; because not one Principle of It, not even a jot or a tittle, could be dishonored and swept away, God consented to let His Son take upon Himself the results of man’s transgression of that Law, thus making it possible for man to be pardoned, and to become obedient to all God’s Commandments.”  RH, December 18, 1888, paragraph 5.

 

“The great sacrifice of the Son of God was neither too great nor too small to accomplish the work.  In the wisdom of God it was complete; and the atonement made testifies to every son and daughter of Adam the immutability of God’s Law.  The value of the Law of Jehovah is to be estimated by the immense price that was paid in the death of the Son of God to maintain its sacredness.  The Law of God is a transcript of His character; it portrays the nature of God.  As in Christ we behold the brightness of His glory, the express image of His person, so also in the Law the attributes of the Father are unfolded.  Although the Law is unchangeable, His having provided a means of salvation for the Law-breaker does not in the least detract from the dignity of the character of God, since the penalty of man’s transgression was borne by a Divine Substitute.”  ST, December 30, 1889.

 

“If the Law of God could have been changed, or altered in one of Its Statutes, It would have been so altered when sin originated in Heaven, when the brightest son of the morning, who was good, noble, and lovely above all the beings that God had created, found fault with the Precepts of that Law in the counsels of angels.  If ever a change was to have been made, it would have been accomplished when rebellion revealed itself in Heaven, and so have prevented the great apostasy of the angels.  The fact that no change was made in God’s Administration, even when the most exalted of the angels drew away from allegiance to God’s Law, is evidence enough to reasonable minds that the Law, the foundation of God’s government, will not relax Its Claims to save the willful transgressor.”  ST, April 28, 1890 paragraph 6.

 

“Those who have heard the voice of God proclaiming His Holy Law on Mount Sinai, in the hearing of the people, know His voice, and when men claiming to be led by Christ, and professing to be entirely sanctified, assert that the Law of God is abolished, and ridicule and make light of the great moral standard, and set at naught the testimony of prophets and apostles, we can confidently say that we hear not in their teachings the voice of the true Shepherd.”  ST, July 4, 1895; YI, September 27, 1894.

 

“Any violation of the laws of nature is a violation of the Law of God.”  ST, April 4, 1900; 1BC:1105.3; 4T:30; 2PRC:504; M&S:40; PC:49, 262; 7MR:412; 8MR:37; YI:80; 1RH:109, 509.

 

“Now if the Law of God could have been changed and altered to meet man in his fallen condition, then Adam would have been pardoned and retained his home in Eden; but the penalty of transgression was death, and Christ became man's Substitute and Surety.  Then was the time, could the Law of God have been changed, to have made this change and retained Christ in the Heavenly courts, that the immense Sacrifice made to save a fallen race might have been avoided.  But no, the Law of God was changeless in Its character and therefore Christ gave Himself a sacrifice in behalf of fallen man, and Adam lost Eden and was placed with all his posterity upon probation.”  TMK:289.3.

 

“The remedy for transgression is not to be found in declaring that the Law is abolished.  To abolish the Law would be to dishonor it, and to cast contempt upon the Lawgiver.”  YI, February 7, 1895.