January 7, 2025

Matthew Henry opened my eyes to something significant that happened when Jesus was crucified; the Law of Moses and the fence laws that were put in place to keep the people from even getting close to breaking the law were nailed to the cross with him. When you cross out a law or put a nail into it invalidates it, which is what Jesus did for us. We are more free than we ever imagined. We still have to follow the law of the land, but more importantly, we are to follow the ordinances that Jesus gave us, which, boiled down, amount to loving God and people and bringing others to know him. The ceremonial ordinances in which Jesus wants us to participate are communion and baptism. Are those things too much to ask when he wiped out all our sins? All the other requirements from the law are not required, like the new moon ceremonies, the food you are allowed to eat, and the sabbath requirements. We should still walk in an upright manner that is becoming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus, but because it is impossible to keep all the law, Jesus set us free from it. What a relief! Watch out for those churches trying to make you keep the Law of Moses; they have probably been infiltrated by governmental authority and are trying to control you. If you don’t understand Colossians 2 in the KJV, read it in the ESV, it makes these verses seem clearer.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, Colossians 2 16-18

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? Colossians 2:20-22