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He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till He have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for His law. – Isaiah 42:4
If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father’s commandments, and abide in His love. – John 15:10
In the forty second chapter of Isaiah’s prophecy of the Messiah, verse four shows us that the Messiah will give “His law.” It has been interpreted by some Rabbis that the Messiah will make new laws of His own, apart from those that had been previously given by Moses. We are also shown in Isaiah 42:21, that the Messiah will “magnify the law, and make it honorable.”
Keeping those things in mind, we witnessed Jesus emerge from the foreshadows and prophecies that foretold of His coming, and we followed Him to a Mount (Matthew 5-7), where He “magnified the law” and verified His role as Teacher.
He took the commandments of His Father, polished off the opinions and inaccurate teachings that had dulled the jewels of God’s word. Then He made the meanings of them sparkle as He reset them in the foundations of His Holy Spirit wisdom.
He mined them away from the crusty precepts that had tarnished them with compassionless religiosity and encased them for all to see in a splendid arrangement that revealed to us that the law was all about loving God with all our hearts and our neighbors as ourselves.
“His law” is Jesus’ commandment to “Love one another.”
“His Law” is the new law that was really the old law made new and understandable when it was examined under the magnifying glass of simplicity and wisdom.
Then He hands the magnifying glass to all of us, and His Holy Spirit within our believing hearts enables us to behold the beauty of all those lovely polished jewels of God’s truth. Moses told us what we need to do. Jesus shows us what we need to be.
Copyright 2025 by H. D. Shively
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