The Law as a Heavy, Heavy Load, Part 2 (TMF:1630)

Friday, June 11, 2021
Peace to Live By: The Law as a Heavy, Heavy Load, Part 2 (TMF:1630) - Daniel Litton
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       The Jews are God’s chosen people. They were the ones whom God gave a physical law to. Remember? On Mount Sinai God gave Moses the written law. And this Law become important to the Jew, so much so that by the time of Jesus the Pharisees and Teachers of the Law had added a whole bunch of things to it, a whole bunch of things that weren’t originally there. They made the Law heavy, a heavy load, but God had intended it to be simple and easy to keep. Let’s hit the rewind button and rewind back to Romans chapter 3 for a moment. There, it is written: “Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law” (Romans 3:31, ESV). This is a very significant point, and it’s something that we need to recall as we go through our discussion today. Our newfound faith in Jesus, our working and active faith, that faith does not take away God’s Law, it does not even render it obsolete. To say so would be a misunderstanding.