L Lee (13 Dec 2013)
"Faith and the Law"



As we are looking more into the Old Testament to discern  times and meanings, we are discovering the rich resource we as the Church have neglected to appreciate and many of us are seeing it as an exciting treasure chest to be explored.  But many in the Hebrew Roots movement are reverting back to it in a legalistic way, seeing it as better than our 'free-style' age of Grace. The flesh wants to impose boundaries that Jesus has nailed to the cross and fulfilled completely! I am alerted to this tendency by efforts to single out Christmas as pagan worship and revert back to the Feasts as being somehow the holy thing to do.  Paul warns of this in lots of passages.  He even suggests that a Christian might find himself eating food sacrificed to idols...in an idol's temple, no less, without violating his conscience!  Collosians 2:11-20 speaks very precisely to this issue and the freedom we now have in Christ...to live in the 'honor system'....a pure conscience toward God through Faith! When we try to mix faith with the law it is like water and oil...it CAN'T be homogenized..legalism will always rise to the top.
L Lee