“For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore _it is of necessity that this Man have somewhat also to offer_. For if He were on earth, He should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law.” Verses 3, 4. 10. What is necessary on the part of the individual in order to receive the benefit of Christ’s work? “With the heart man _believeth_ unto righteousness; and with the mouth _confession_ is made unto salvation.” Rom. 10:10. 11. For what did the apostle Paul trust Christ? “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, _the righteousness which is of God by faith_.” Phil. 3:8, 9. 12. What relation does the law sustain to this righteousness? “But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, _being witnessed by the law_ and the prophets.” Rom. 3:21. 13. Does the faith which brings righteousness abolish the law? “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, _we establish the law_.” Verse 31. NOTE.—The law reveals the perfection of character required, and so gives a knowledge of sin; but it is powerless to confer the character demanded. In the gospel, the law, first written in the heart of Christ, becomes “the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus,” and is thus transferred to the heart of the believer, in whose heart Christ dwells by faith. Thus the new covenant promise is fulfilled that the law shall be written in the heart. This is the genuine experience of righteousness by faith,—a righteousness which is witnessed by the law, and revealed in the life in harmony with the law. The gospel is thus seen to be the provision for restoring the law to its place in the heart and life of the one who believes on Christ, and accepts His mediatorial work. Such faith, instead of making void the law, establishes it in the heart of the believer. The gospel is not against the law, therefore, but upholds, maintains, and presents the law to us in Christ. 14. What did Christ take away? “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away _the sin of the world_.” John 1:29. 15. What has Christ abolished? “But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath _abolished death_, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.” 2 Tim. 1:10. 16. What change is brought about through the gospel? “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are _changed into the same image_ from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” 2 Cor. 3:18.