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Our sermon will be on Luke 16:14-17
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Alleluia
What About The Law?
Have you ever seen some of the weird laws around us?
For example, in OKC, you can’t tip over a casket at a funeral.
And don’t take a bit out of someone else’s hamburger.
Also, make sure you tie up your car before you head into the store.
If you’re in Wynona, don’t use your birdbath to wash your clothes.
If you’re in Tulsa, Don’t open a pop bottle without the supervision of a licensed engineer.
We laugh at these, but there are some things that seem silly in the Bible as well.
Like in Deuteronomy 22:11
Or some of the dietary laws.
They couldn’t eat rabbit, shellfish, pork and many other things.
Oof, Cristy, that means you can’t have your shrimp.
And oh me oh my, I can’t have bacon.
So the question is, why don’t we follow these laws?
We are going to try to answer that today.
Context
In order to understand what’s going on here, we need to backtrack a bit.
Two weeks ago we talked about the unjust steward.
It’s about how we should be thinking about the life to come instead of this life.
So they are upset at Jesus for what he’s saying.
So Jesus just gives them more fodder.
Justifying yourself before God is a lost cause
The Pharisees were all about how they appeared to others.
Appearances were everything.
I’m not talking about looking nice.
Yesterday was the association meeting.
I walked in to the minister’s study and all of these guys were dressed up with most of them in a suit and tie.
Here I was in jeans and a decent shirt.
Was there anything wrong with how I was dressed?
Was there anything wrong with how they were dressed?
What we are talking about is not just the way they dressed but they way they acted.
God is not worried about how we are dressed, although he is probably glad we are dressed.
They were not worried about what God thought about them but about what others thought
When Jesus was teaching in the Sermon on the Mount, he laid out the fact that God was worried about your inward desires.
Lust is adultery of the heart, hate is murder of the heart, etc.
That means their attitude was the sin of pride.
This little saying Luke 16:15
The bad news for them (and for us) is that we cannot justify ourselves before God.
As Isaiah said in Isaiah 64:6
Where does that leave us?
Jesus bridges the gap between old and new
Jesus is telling us that something new is coming.
It was pressing them and now we are in it.
What the Pharisees and scribes didn’t know was that Jesus was what the Bible was about.
If you look through the scriptures you will see a pattern emerge.
The thing that ties it all together is Jesus
People have said that Jesus is the scarlet thread that sows the Bible together.
That’s a reference that goes all the way back to Joshua where Rahab, through faith, trusted in God and helped the Israelite Spies down out of Jericho by a scarlet thread or rope.
That thread takes us to Jesus.
When we look at the whole of the sacrificial system, we see it points to Jesus.
That brings us to Luke 16:17
A jot and a tittle are described by this picture.
Like the difference between an “O” and a “Q”
So what does the law have to do with us?
So what laws do we follow?
We need to remember that there were different aspects of the law.
Many people break it down into the Moral aspects, and the Ceremonial
Things like the shellfish and the mixing of types of threads were Ceremonial.
Things like the 10 commandments are part of the moral law.
Later in what some call the first council of Jerusalem, the law was reduced to this:
But that’s the do nots.
What about the dos?
Paul had been telling the Galatians that we are free of the Law.
Someone had been telling them otherwise.
So he quotes what Jesus said about Love
Here’s the question for you: Can you fulfill that command?
Jesus did, maybe Mother Theresa, but I can’t.
So what’s the answer?
The Law brings us Condemnation, But Jesus brings us Sanctification
That’s the big message here.
We can’t follow the Law.
We can never to it perfectly.
But God loved us so much, that even though we are impure, he gave Jesus as the perfect sacrifice to pay for our sin.
We are not righteous because of what we do or not do, instead we are declared righteous if we believe.
So what about all those laws we talked about and what’s in Exodus Leviticus, and Deuteronomy?
They can inform us as to what is right and wrong, but it is impossible to follow them perfectly.
The Law brings us Condemnation, But Jesus brings us Sanctification
The Law was always pointing to the perfect Lamb that would come and now has come.
Jesus died so that I could be free of sin and it’s trappings
Are you ready to be free?
Are you ready to go eat some bacon?
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