Walking The New Testament Podcast

Rob D

A weekly podcast where I share my views about The New Testament of the Bible from Matthew to Revelation! wtnt.substack.com

  1. Sep 7

    Fake Laws or Common Sense (Which is more important?)

    Greetings everyone! I’m happy to report that my project is completed and things are sort of back to normal. I have one more smaller project to complete but it shouldn’t interfere with the WTNT journey too much. Have you ever had someone say, “that’s illegal?” Have you ever asked, “is that legal?” It’s ridiculous how we have become a society that is very similar to the times of Christ when man’s insane rules and laws became a religion. Sometimes we have to just do something, anything, without asking “is it legal.” As Christians we are called to serve him and seek out our salvation with “fear and trembling” but we aren’t to be slaves to a bunch of rules and “laws” that are typically based on nothing but man’s idea of what a “law” is and, most of the time, that “law” is frivilous and unecessary. Granted, the book of the law in the Bible has dozens and dozens of laws that those under the old covenant were to keep. Jesus came and fulfilled that law and put us under the new covenant where loving God and loving others became the most important laws and as we may remember from earlier episodes if we do our best to uphold those two principles he told us that all of the other “laws” will take care of themselves (or we will find we are upholding those other laws without even trying). This week, let’s chat just a bit about having common sense when it comes to so-called laws. One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” Mark 2: 23-24 NIV He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.” Mark 2: 25-26 NIV Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” Mark 2: 27-28 NIV Thanks for reading and listening to Walking The New Testament! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wtnt.substack.com

    Fake Laws or Common Sense (Which is more important?)

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A weekly podcast where I share my views about The New Testament of the Bible from Matthew to Revelation! wtnt.substack.com