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[643.12 --> 651.18] You will be called least in the kingdom of heaven if you do not receive my word in its wholeness for your instruction and for your formation.
[651.94 --> 656.70] And I also want to add, it's not impressive to Jesus for us just to know the Scriptures.
[657.34 --> 660.18] Maybe to have a few words memorized, something on the fridge.
[660.60 --> 661.98] What matters to Jesus is what?
[662.78 --> 664.92] Putting these words into practice.
[666.10 --> 671.12] Living them in our ordinary lives such that they give life to us and those who are around us.
[671.12 --> 672.40] We practice them.
[673.12 --> 679.06] So now I want to, with your permission, walk into the weeds of this passage.
[679.20 --> 683.04] So there is, I'm not going to get into all of it, but there's a lot of debate about what this passage means.
[683.40 --> 686.86] And I kind of got lost in some of the complexity, but I need to name some of it.
[686.92 --> 692.74] Because if you read the Old Testament, you think, okay, how then do we read the Old Testament in light of it being fulfilled in Jesus?
[692.88 --> 693.46] What changes?
[693.66 --> 694.22] What doesn't?
[694.50 --> 696.24] And we know that there are changes.
[696.58 --> 700.44] One very specific example is food laws, right?
[700.44 --> 705.50] There's a lot of restrictions if you read Leviticus about meat and what meat you can eat and what meat you cannot eat.
[705.80 --> 708.10] And then you go fast forward to Acts chapter 15.
[708.50 --> 712.72] And Peter's on the roof and he has this vision of a blanket coming down with all these animals.
[712.86 --> 714.98] And God basically says, you can eat them now.
[715.10 --> 718.02] And all of us who love bacon say, yes, Lord, thank you.
[718.26 --> 720.16] Thank you so much for Acts chapter 15.
[720.46 --> 722.54] We will receive that bacon with gratitude.
[722.54 --> 731.56] But to add one more layer to it, one of the strange things that people have noticed is Jesus says, I've not come to abolish the law.
[731.66 --> 732.50] I've come to fulfill it.
[732.54 --> 735.06] But what does Jesus get accused of all the time in his ministry?
[736.56 --> 737.72] Breaking the law, right?
[738.42 --> 740.44] Pharisees come up to Jesus and like, hey, wait a minute.
[740.70 --> 741.68] You just did this.
[741.78 --> 743.34] You're breaking the law.
[743.56 --> 744.62] And so what's going on here?
[745.08 --> 749.40] And I'm going to do my best to summarize a lot of different scholarly material.
[749.40 --> 752.24] And if it doesn't make sense, come up to me and we can talk after the service.
[753.04 --> 755.58] Because there's a lot of history behind what's going on with the law.
[755.74 --> 759.26] So number one, here's what's going to make sense of this passage.
[760.12 --> 763.82] Pharisees at the time, they were the teachers of the religious law, the Jewish leaders.
[764.38 --> 766.00] They had a long oral tradition.
[766.14 --> 768.26] Remember, the Bible came out of an oral tradition.
[768.62 --> 771.44] And what happened over time is they had laws that made sense of laws.
[771.50 --> 773.60] And they sort of stacked laws on top of those laws.
[773.78 --> 776.14] And then all these laws sort of got bound together.
[776.26 --> 778.52] And many of them were not in the Old Testament law.
[778.52 --> 784.38] They were sort of these Pharisaic laws that they added to help people keep the law in the Bible.
[784.78 --> 786.76] And Jesus had no problem breaking them.
[787.34 --> 788.90] Healing on the Sabbath is a great example.
[789.00 --> 791.28] They thought healing was work, shouldn't work on the Sabbath.
[791.56 --> 795.62] And Jesus is like, I'm going to heal on the Sabbath because the law is about loving our neighbors.
[797.18 --> 802.88] Secondly, oftentimes, not universally, but oftentimes as the Pharisees would teach the law,
[802.96 --> 806.22] it became about behaviors rather than the heart.
[806.22 --> 813.60] It became about not doing certain activities, which still matters, rather than dealing with the desires that lead us down destructive paths.
[813.96 --> 817.16] It's externals rather than internals, if that makes any sense.
[817.92 --> 820.24] And then finally, and I'm not going to touch too much on this today,
[820.70 --> 826.98] the Pharisees often used the law as a way of separating themselves from society, which makes some sense, right?
[827.00 --> 827.54] They're distinctive.
[827.98 --> 830.62] But then that turned into a hatred towards their neighbors.
[830.62 --> 834.00] So the laws were twisted in all sorts of ways.
[834.12 --> 836.14] One, there's traditions that got built in as laws.
[836.48 --> 838.62] Secondly, it became about behavior and not motives.
[838.98 --> 843.32] And thirdly, it became about separating from and then hating society around them.
[843.62 --> 848.34] And you can understand a little bit of where they're coming from when you realize they're being oppressed by their Roman neighbors.
[848.34 --> 854.20] And so now we get Jesus saying, I've come to fulfill the law.
[855.02 --> 857.12] And I want to just help us understand that image.
[857.22 --> 859.58] That image is really one of filling up.
[859.92 --> 868.56] Or Jesus saying, I've come to draw out the truest and deepest intention of the laws and the prophecies that God gave in the Old Testament.
[869.36 --> 869.82] Is that helpful?
[869.82 --> 872.60] They were given, and then people were not able to obey them.
[872.64 --> 876.80] And Jesus is like, I'm going to show you the fullest intention of what those laws are about.
[877.10 --> 879.02] They are not about externals.
[879.84 --> 881.04] They're not about traditions.
[881.68 --> 882.74] They're not about segregation.
[883.60 --> 886.92] They are about loving God and loving neighbor.
[887.46 --> 889.70] That's what the laws in the Old Testament were given for.
[889.76 --> 891.18] And just a bit of a sidebar.
[891.76 --> 893.56] I can't get into too many details on this.
[893.56 --> 903.26] But you need to know that behind the laws that God gave is always a desire to have people to be in loving relationship with God and loving relationship with each other.
[903.52 --> 905.58] The Ten Commandments, maybe it's easy to do that.
[905.62 --> 909.48] But let me give you some really intriguing examples, or one in particular.
[909.88 --> 912.56] There's a lot of very contextual case laws.
[913.26 --> 918.28] If you read through Exodus and Deuteronomy and Leviticus, there's a lot of really peculiar laws.
[918.34 --> 919.10] And maybe you've read them.
[919.44 --> 920.40] One of them is this.
[920.40 --> 925.34] The laws do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
[926.80 --> 928.00] How's that going for you, by the way?
[928.78 --> 929.96] You avoided that?
[930.08 --> 930.64] Good job.
[931.34 --> 934.66] The reason that law was given, totally removed from our culture, right?
[934.70 --> 937.38] It's for Israel as they live among the Canaanites.
[937.68 --> 943.52] And the reason is God cares for the well-being of animals, even when they're being killed.
[944.08 --> 947.48] He doesn't want it boiled to death like some other people would do.
[947.48 --> 951.64] And he says, I want to show some provision for and the care for animals.
[951.80 --> 952.76] That's in God's law.
[953.16 --> 956.76] And there's lots of other laws about how you build buildings so people don't fall off the roof.
[957.00 --> 958.08] Laws about caring for the poor.
[958.44 --> 960.64] Leaving food in your field so the poor would be fed.
[961.04 --> 961.64] Tons of laws.
[961.80 --> 968.32] All of them, behind them, even the obscure weird ones for us today, are caring for neighbor and love of God.
[968.32 --> 976.08] And I encourage you, as you read the Old Testament, find out why the heart of God is showing up or how it's showing up, even in the obscure laws.
[977.06 --> 985.26] But maybe the best verse to help us understand all the Old Testament law and prophets is Jesus' summary of the law in Matthew 22,
[985.80 --> 988.64] where you've got all these Pharisees teaching all these things about the law.
[988.74 --> 989.78] And what does Jesus say?
[989.78 --> 997.50] The heart of the law is to love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength and to love your neighbor as yourself.