10 commandments. I hope you're starting to see how they are a part of a much bigger story.
The story behind the entire law: God's relentless faithfulness to bring humanity back into the mountain garden of his presence. Back to fullness of life.
When you understand the law in this way, you realize it's not about legalism. They're not just arbitrary rules laid out by a picky God so he would know who to strike with lightning.
If that was all the 10 commandments were, then you'd just have to look at your life and check them off a list of moral absolutes.
But when you see the law as part of a grand story of redemption, you see the 10 commandments not as an ending point of morality but as a starting point. You see that these are Laws about loving God completely and laws about loving our neighbor.
Imagine if each of us were to look at our lives and not ask, "Am I breaking any God rules?" But instead ask, "in what ways am I bringing fullness of life into this world and in what ways am I protecting fullness of life for others?"
Through his death and resurrection Jesus opened back up the door to Eden and through his life he modeled what New Creation looks like. Through the Holy Spirit he made it possible for us to live the same way.
Imagine what our community would look like if we really believed that. If we were committed to creating Eden everywhere we went.
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