The word Law, as defined by Webster, means: "That which is laid, set, or fixed. A rule of order or conduct as established by authority; a fixed regulation; a decree; an order."
We find in Luke, 16:17 these words: "And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail." In the whole chapter we find Jesus' reproof of the hypocrisy of the Pharisees. He is teaching a lesson on the parable of the unjust steward, and showing the hypocrisy of material law in contradistinction to spiritual law. The law that Jesus came to establish was a heavenly law, even the law of justice, righteousness, and peace. The law and order of heaven reveal creation in all its beauty, reality, and harmony. Law, with order, brings mankind into obedience, establishes right action, and manifests purity, power, and goodwill. The law and order of eternal Love and Wisdom, as taught in Christian Science, should be studiously learned and lived, that the reign of health may become a perpetual blessing. Sin, sickness, and death do not belong to the law of God. The claim that they are something is annulled by the law of God. The law of material will is hypocrisy in the highest degree. It covers up, conceals, aggravates, and perpetuates error. The lawyer of material sense is dealing with material codes and man-made laws. Hence those he claims to protect and save are not protected and saved.
The law that Jesus taught needs neither prison nor tomb. The law of the Spirit of Life understood and demonstrated saves the prisoner from crime and heals him of sin. Hence Jesus' kind of law, order, justice, and judgment annihilates sin, opens prison doors, and sets captives free. The mortal is a sinner, is bound in prison and held captive by material law. The justice of Divine Law uncovers and exposes sin; the judgment pronounces upon it; the equity wipes it out; and the counsel and precepts lift the criminal from darkness to light, proving the sin and sinner are not of God's creation, hence without foundation, fact, or origin. Material law is nothing but a webwork of material testimony with the spider of self-derived intelligence concealed in its meshes.
