What Would Jesus Eat?
Today we welcomed Pastor Bert Bolt who spoke to us about the Leviticus 11. Leviticus is a book of laws for the Jewish people and chapter 11 is specifically about dietary laws. God gave His people the law to guide them toward righteousness. In comparing the law to righteousness, Bert gave us the example of how righteousness is like playing a piano. Even if you get all the notes right, you still may not get the music right.We now believe that since Jesus came and died for us, His righteousness was imputed to us. The Bible is so much more to us than a How-to manual - it is the story of redemption! We know that in Christ, nothing is neutral: everything matters. God should be involved in everything we do. We are no longer under Old Testament Law, but God still cares about the same things - even about the food we eat! He wants us to be people who show His character, His holiness. He wants us to stand out and to be noticeable. And now, we do this because we are thankful for what He has done for us.
I think it's good for us to be reminded of how hard it was to keep the law back in the Old Testament times because then Jesus sacrifice means more to us and we can be more motivated to live in gratitude to Him.
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