It is once again winter here in Minnesota, and with our Minnesota winters often comes several snow storms throughout the season. Often after a good storm the highways will be covered with packed snow and ice, making for rather precarious road conditions, and will often require the application of salt to the highways to melt the snow away.
Well that salt, while needed to melt the snow and ice, has a side effect of being very hard on the metal in a vehicle, and causes them to rust, and this is something that we have experienced over the years on our own personal vehicle. One winter day we were driving down the road when all of a sudden the brakes on the vehicle became very weak as the brake pedal sank all the way to the floor. Immediately we knew what had happened as we had a bad brake line. So we took our vehicle to our mechanic to have the brake lines replaced, but we soon learned that, while the brakes were only leaking in one single part of the line that had developed a rust hole, we should completely tear out the entire brake lines from the front to the back, and replace it all with one brand new line to alleviate future breaks.
And just as we had to completely tear out that entire brake line to replace it with a new one, that example is similar to the Old and New Testaments. The Law contained so many different things to try to do and remember. Things you couldn’t eat, things you couldn’t touch, things you couldn’t do, or things you had to do. Each one after the other. With so many things contained in the Law, there was absolutely no way that a person could possibly keep each one without fail. But that was the real purpose behind it all: to show you that you were a sinner.
It was there to show to that you couldn’t do enough to get to heaven on your own. No matter how hard you tried, you would always fail somewhere, somehow. It was there for a time until the time came for Jesus to come and do what no one else could do by keeping the law perfectly. For the first time ever, someone had kept the Law flawlessly. When Jesus died, it marked the end of the Old Testament and the Law. When He said “It is finished”, He pulled up and threw out the Old Testament laws, and laid down the New.
Hebrews 10:9 “Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.”
Out with the Old, in with the New. Out with the bondage of the Law, in with the Law of liberty. The law of love, mercy, grace, and forgiveness.
There are people today who try to keep the entire Judaic Law, even though it has already been proven that the only One Who could keep it was the Lord Himself. They have been set free from the chains and demands of the Law, but they just want to go back to it again. That would be like tearing off that old rusty brake line, and then reattaching it again!
The Old Testament is just that: old. It is “something that is no longer in existence; former; previous; obsolete or out-of-date.”
Grace. Mercy. Love. That’s the New. Don’t go back to the Old!
Let’s think about these things for right now. We can be found on your web browser by searching, tlkjbc where you can find our diaries distributed through various platforms. We are not associated, nor affiliated with any other religious goups. You can get our entire podcast feeds directly, along with transcripts at tlkjbc.com or I suppose that you could find us somewhere up here, in the Great Northern Minnesota woods. Peace to you, and Lord willing, we will talk with you some more tomorrow. Till then, bye bye everybody. ❤️
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In Christ,
Andrew
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