Our Lord's Understanding of the Law of God

The fourteenth Campbell Morgan Memorial Bible Lecture, given by Packer at Westminster Chapel, London, in 1962 and published that year as a booklet of nineteen pages by Pickering & Inglis for the chapel. Taking up R. V. G. Tasker's earlier lecture on Jesus' use of the Old Testament, Packer asks what the Christian attitude to the law of God should be and seeks the answer in Christ's own view of it. He treats the subject under three heads: the place of Christ's ethical teaching in his ministry as a whole, Christ's view of the authority of the Old Testament law, and Christ's own exposition of the law, drawing chiefly on the Sermon on the Mount.