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Originally Posted by Rob McKee
Sorry...wasn't trying to be flippant with my brief comment.
"Christ sat in the seat of Moses?"...I giggled because I wondered where Moses was going to sit now
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Jesus came to fulfill the Law...not to do away with it. The dispensation of grace is much more restrictive than the law (Matt. 5...I thing starting around verse 26 or 27) ...but the motivation is different. Now I don't do it to earn salvation...I do it to express my love and passion for God...(which according to Mark 8:38 IS a salvation matter)
Trust me when I tell you...I'm probably not smarter.
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I giggled because I wondered where Moses was going to sit now
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I can see Moses befuddled, cursing and plucking his own beard! That was rich!
If something is vague and then fulfilled, what does that mean? What then, are we still under the Law? Too many references in Hebrews and Galations (among others) that articulate that the Law has brought us to this point, but that we are no longer under the Law. It's not the same as saying the Law is done -- but rather, to keep the Story in focus, the Law has been fulfilled. It's here. It looks different. The Messiah perfectly fulfilled the role of the Law, to bring us to God.
When you say Grace is more restrictive, I think I get what you say, but it almost makes me cringe. Grace is freeing, liberating, not restrictive. Grace is not a higher stack of codes and regulations, it's one massive one that governs our entire life-thought. It helps us live life fully, abundantely.
So, to you, the only difference between the Law and Grace is the person's motive? It has nothing to do with Law and Grace itself? And when you say "now I do it," what do you mean? Do what? The Law?
Living life fully, authentically and openly before God -- if we have to say it this way -- is much more "challenging" than just complying with rules anyday. When someone tells me what to wear, there's an early period of resistance (no one enjoys being a slave), but then conformity becomes quite easy. But living life where we must each follow after Jesus, allow sanctification to transform, listen for His voice, trust each other in community and grow --- that can't be done on our own... takes Grace.
When I say Christ perfectly fulfilled the seat of Moses -- that's what I mean. I'm not a Dispensationalist at all... but it's something we agree on in concept.
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