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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

I think it was signifying a changing of the guard.

The law dictated their giving. It told them what measure they must line up to and when they had lined up to that measure then they could say they have attained.

I feel that it is a safe assumption that all of those whose giving Jesus was talking about met the measure of the law or Jesus would have said something. But some of them met the measure but did not have the true spirit that our giving should be driven by. They had a spirit of meeting the minimum... fulfilling the law... measuring their righteousness and feeling they had accomplished it.

While the widow gave out of a heart that wanted to give. What would the others had given had they walked to the temple that day with the same heart? There would have been much more given.

Those who lived to the measure of the law... because the very spirit of God was in the midst... were suddenly found wanting.

A new age was coming. A new day was dawning. There was a new measure by which to judge by.

A measure that can only be understood when the law of God not only fills our mind... but our heart. And not only the law... but the spirit also.

Excellent, Digging!!!