BROKEN RULES

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The Rainbow set as the symbol of the Covenant with Noah after the Great Flood of the Bible. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Have you heard the old saying Rules are meant to be broken?

How many rules are listed in the Old Testament?

Just in Book of Leviticus alone there are hundreds of rules listed; rules for various offerings, instructions and rules for the priests, dietary rules, instructions and standards for the people, instructions for the altar and even instructions and rules for holy days.

Then one night a tiny baby was born.

A Savior grew into manhood and broke all the rules.

Jesus shattered the laws of the day in order to give us the perfect commandment.

LOVE GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART and LOVE OTHERS

Jesus tore up the old contract of laws

He promised us a New Covenant which leads to Spirit-giving Life.

2 Corinthians 3:6 (NLT) He has enabled us to be ministers of his new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spirit gives life.

TWO FOR TUESDAY (5-14)

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ONE READING – TWO VERSIONS

1 John 4: 18- 21 (NRSVA) 

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love.  ¹⁹ We  love because he first loved us. ²⁰ Those who say, ‘I love God’, and hate their brothers or sisters,are liars; for those who do not love a brother or  sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. ²¹ The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also.

1 John 4: 18-21 (NCV)

Where God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love drives out fear. It is punishment that makes a person fear, so love is not made perfect in the person who fears. ¹⁹ We love because God first loved us. ²⁰ If people say, “I love God,” but hate their brothers or sisters, they are liars. Those who do not love their brothers and sisters, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have never seen. ²¹ And God gave us this command: Those who love God must also love their brothers and sisters.