17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Seems like a strange verse to pick...but, here's why I did.
Our Easter service talked a lot about the relationship between the law of Moses, and the gift of Jesus. It changed the way we interface with God. When God delivered the law to his people, through Moses....it allowed us to be forgiven for sin by covering our sin with death. The death came in the animals that were sacrificed. When Christ died an innocent death, that gave us the allowance to be in God's presence and be covered by the "death" of Christ. The last death that was needed. We can now be in the presence of God.
I know.....nothing new, right?
But, it's nice to correlate messages I hear on Sunday to what is written in the Word.....and to start to remember where they are referenced.
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14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
ReplyDeleteSo while we don't have Jesus walking in the flesh among us now, we do still have the Word and its available to us at all times. We have access to so many sources of the Word now, but maybe that makes me lazy too. I bet people use to have so much more of the Word inside them that they could call on to guide them at anytime. We have access to the knowledge the creator of everything wanted us to know, what fools we are if we don't study it and understand it as well as humanly possible.
knut