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Na kwa chapta wa m Weekaw tisha za Wa Bukul niligiaz na reshanya hiltuala mw parameters wa samu waka waka 4 lye kwa ishmile Isic waka when he was born in Sri Lanka where he says that the Abrahamic inheritance will come to Isaac so the Lord was using these two persons so to show those legal entitlement will only lead you to continue using slavery because you cannot ahh keep the law so perfectly to talk about the law so that you can claim legal entitlement and say yes I have he explain the leLord So if you are not supposed to follow the teaw Pe just that we simply go around living in sin because now we have got our ticket to heaven We got pot status why you are no longer following mantula but if we are not following the already refrain children law then what do we do Anu na m bemikitumistu wala ya se ... bwini, bwini, bwini HP, chena hrishukunibu ghiikuna ... bwini, bwini, bwini, hrishukunibu na suggestivna ... bwiniina tyumujinohìku kutisa, seria niha inc赤oshishuna Sawa naammen k studimuiton basketfutunibuаз, nga incleditia winiina s'ie w Rakunwu naise hrejo hicul y kux чер leg Nga yukare naise spunam knives anyu n alémue nalifite by Jesus and it no longer applies we don't even need to read the Old Testament anymore is what they say because they believe that the Old Testament has to do with the Mosaic law and therefore we have nothing left to learn from there but that of course is a very wrong attitude. It's quite an extreme step to take to completely give up the Old Testament because when we look at Timothy chapter 3 verse 16 there you have Paul explaining and saying the Old Testament is highly useful to us. It reproves us it corrects us, it teaches us and so we need the Old Testament because there are many lessons contained in the Old Testament which God uses to build us up so we do not give up the Old Testament we do not reject the Old Testament we continue to read it because 2 Timothy 3 16 which is in the New Testament clearly explains to us that we must continue to read the scriptures and in 2 Timothy 3 16 when Paul was referring to the scriptures he was obviously talking about the Old Testament because that was the only written scriptures which they had at that time. The letters and the gospels were still getting compiled into their final form at that point of time so when he was talking about scripture in 2 Timothy 3 16 he was very clearly referring to the Old Testament so we do not discard the Old Testament all that we do understand is that the mosaic law which is given in the Old Testament that has been fulfilled by Jesus he fulfilled it he completed it and then he introduced a new covenant so if we want to be followers of Jesus then we would obviously follow the new covenant which he has introduced we cannot go back to something that he has nullified and canceled that would make no sense at all now having understood all of that background let's begin Galatians chapter 5 if we can have someone read out for us up to verse 6 Galatians chapter 5 verses 1 to 6 please Galatians chapter 5 verse 1 to 6 stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has led us free and do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage and then I Paul said to you that if you become circumcised Christ will perfect you nothing and I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a devil to give the whole law you have become estranged from Christ you who attempt to be justified by law you have fallen from grace for we through the spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision or uncircumcision avails anything but faith walking through love yes thank you so now we might have felt as part of the modern church today that the first four chapters were very irrelevant for us because we are living in the current times where we all already know that we are not supposed to be part of the mosaic law and so it is all just head knowledge a lot of information which we might have found not very relevant but when we come to chapters 5 and 6 we really need to pay attention because this is talking about us how we should be living on a daily basis so these two chapters are very very important this is the opening statement that we see in chapter 5 verse 1 where it says it is for freedom that Christ has set us free stand firm then and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery back then in the time of the Galatian church what were they getting what were they being tempted to go back to the slavery of the mosaic law now for us today it may not be the slavery of the mosaic law but then there are other things things of the world which are pulling us away trying to draw us back into slavery and so we may not even be tempted to be enslaved to the mosaic law but then there are many other forms of slavery that are trying to draw us attract us trap us so we need to be very careful so here in verse 1 Galatians 5 verse 1 this is what Paul says why did Christ set us free why did he grant us salvation why did he redeem us he had one clear purpose in mind it is for freedom that Christ has set us free so we should be careful to continue walking with him and not go back into the yoke of slavery to sin so that is the way that we would apply this verse to ourselves continuing with the thought which Paul is trying to bring out here he goes on to say the mosaic law is of no use to you believers so he says if anyone is choosing to be circumcised he says in verse 2 Christ will be of no value to you at all if you want to be a follower of Christ and gain the benefits of the spiritual inheritance which Christ is granting you then you need to be under him if you choose to be under the law and you choose to be circumcised then the benefits of Christ inheritance will not come to you you can't say that you would like both it doesn't work that way is what he is telling these believers you can't say oh I'll take these few points from the mosaic law this thing about circumcision sounds really good I'll take that even the one about the law about the Sabbath that sounds really good so I think I'll hold on to that as well and these festivals about the new moons and the old feasts of the old covenant they are part of our culture so I think we'll hold on to even those so yes I would like to follow all of that and I think that will gain me credit and gain me salvation but yes I would like to hold on to Christ as well because after all he died for me Paul is saying if you choose to follow the law Christ will be of no value to you at all you can forget the spiritual inheritance which is being offered by Christ it will not even come to you because you have chosen to place yourself under the law he in fact repeats the same thing again in verse 4 he says you who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ you are now cut off from Christ if you continue with this attitude you have fallen away from grace because what Christ is offering comes through grace Isaac the son of the free woman he literally had to come into the kingdom by grace into the Abrahamic inheritance by grace he didn't earn it it was just given to him freely so if these believers choose to place themselves under the law just because some laws seemed very attractive or are part of their tradition then Paul says you know what it's so serious you're actually going to alienate yourself from Christ you'll fall away from grace and once you fall away from grace all that's left for you is judgment so please continue to stay under grace to not go back under the wrath and judgment of God so that's the very important point that he is making over here therefore in verse 5 he says through the spirit through the Holy Spirit we are eagerly awaiting the righteousness which Christ has promised us because he has declared that if we place our faith in him one day we are going to go to heaven and there we will be like Christ we will be part of the family this is a promise that we have been given in verse 6 in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love so a person if they say by becoming circumcised and you know impress God and get his approval no circumcision is of no value to you on the other hand if a person boasts and says you see I am uncircumcised I have chosen not to follow the law so I am superior to you believer you know who got circumcised when you were a kid that also is of no value so circumcision or non circumcision doesn't make anyone superior to the other believer actually allows you to gain salvation and be part of God's kingdom is this one thing faith expressing itself through love it's not just faith of any kind and variety that you choose to you know produce in your heart it's the faith which expresses itself through love it's a very specific kind of faith only people who have that kind of faith are part of this salvation experience which is promised in the bible if you have another variety of faith chances are that even though you've been attending church and tithing you are not part of the family of God it is only this correct kind of faith this genuine kind of faith which express itself through love that's the only kind of faith which can lead you to a salvation experience so it's very important to us what he means by this what exactly is this faith expressing itself through love what is this genuine faith which is supposed to be different from a fake kind of faith if a person let us say goes to a gospel meeting and the message which is preach is very powerful and they feel very emotional and they think oh my Jesus died for me what a wonderful thing you know that he did and you know they feel ashamed about their sins and they think to themselves oh I wish I had not been living such a sinful way I wish you know I can become better I wish I can make a commitment to Christ and they feel all emotional about it but while they are having that emotional experience if there is no repentance where they actually make a commitment and turn away from their past and say now onwards I have turned my back on my past lifestyle and now onwards I choose to follow Christ if that commitment has not been made then there's no genuine faith involved in that decision it was just an emotional feeling that was there and then a few days later when once the emotions come back to normal there's no commitment because the emotions have now dried up so when Jesus was on this earth and he was ministering when he went from place to place did he tell them you know get emotional about the kingdom people get emotional about the kingdom no he kept saying repent so repentance is at the core of this genuine faith because that is the kind of faith which expresses itself through love it's that faith which is saying Lord I love you for what you have done on the cross for me I don't even deserve it but you actually sacrificed your son so that I could have a new life and so out of that deep belief that conviction and out of that gratitude that person says no more no more sinful lifestyle I turn my back on those things and yes Lord I'm going to follow you and I freely accept the gift of forgiveness that you're giving me now that is a genuine commitment it's not just based on emotion alone but it's an actual step of action that has been taken where the person says I have turned my back on the past just the way Jesus said repent I have repented and now I'm looking forward looking ahead toward Jesus has for me so that would be genuine faith so James actually talks about that and I think we would need to look at that that will help us get a clearer picture there are things which I said in James chapter 2 the latter part of the chapter which makes us wonder who was correct was is Galatians correct or is James correct because they seem to contradict each other but actually there is no contradiction when we understand what is being said so I think it's important that we look at James chapter 2 versus 20 to 24 so if we could have someone read out for us please James chapter 2 versus 20 up to 24 ya I mean this is a classroom setting so you would have to participate in the class even if it's just to read out a few verses please if any one of you could volunteer James chapter 2 222 24 James chapter 2 there is 222 24 but without no over in my that stage without work is dead was not Abram our father just by work when he had offered son upon daughter yes now his work and by work was and the scriptures was we see it Abram believe growth and it was included unto you for and it was called friends of God you see then how that by work in my spirit not by faith yes now this passage if you just look at the surface level it looks like as if it's contradicting everything that Galatians was trying to tell us because here in James chapter 2 verse 21 James says was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did you know and then it goes on to say in verse 22 his faith was made complete by what he did and but verse 23 refers to that scripture where it talks about belief of Abraham not his works but rather what he believed in you know in verse 23 it says the scripture was fulfilled that says Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness so they are obviously over here in this verse 23 referring to Genesis chapter 15 verses 5 to 6 which we looked at last time where God takes Abraham under the night sky and he says look up look up at the stars you're going to have that many descendants too many to even count and Abraham who doesn't even have a child chooses to believe what the promise that God is making and so it says in Genesis chapter 15 verse 6 Abraham believed the Lord and the Lord credited it to him as righteousness and so in James chapter 2 verse 23 the same thing is being repeated and it says in James chapter 2 verse 23 the scripture was fulfilled that says Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness so James chapter 2 is talking about the Genesis 15 incident it's not in any way discounting what was done over there all that James chapter 2 is saying is that this man Abraham had genuine faith not the fake kind of faith because he had the genuine faith it showed up later on in his actions that day under the night sky when everything was ideal and he was enjoying the night breeze things were fine it was easy for him to say yes Lord I believe in you but it was genuine faith because later when there was no night breeze we didn't have peaceful surroundings when he was in the middle of battles when he was in the middle of faith struggles at that time because his faith was genuine it showed up in the actions that he acted out at that time later so if a person has genuine faith it will show up later in your actions therefore in James chapter 2 verse 22 it says you see his faith and his actions were working together and his faith was made complete by what he did his faith was made complete in the sense that it proved it showed it demonstrated to everyone that the faith that this man had put in God was a genuine faith because his actions clearly showed that and so in that sense the scripture which said that God credited his belief to him as righteousness that was fulfilled the scripture was able to show and demonstrate and prove that this man's faith was genuine because later when he had to when that faith got tested it stood the test he was able to hold on to God and we know what this is referring to it's talking about his experience where God says to him go and sacrifice your son so maybe we could read out Hebrews chapter 11 verses 17 to 19 Hebrews 11 17 to 19 please by faith Abraham when God tested him offered Isaac as a sacrifice he who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice this one and only son so God had said to him it is through Isaac that your half spring will be reckoned Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead and so in the manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death by faith Isaac blessed Jacob that goes on to the next portion which we are not touching upon thanks so yeah now see this Abraham that faith which he placed in God under the night sky back then that was a faith which expressed itself through love because from that point on he renewed his relationship with God he continued to walk with God he made sacrifices to express his commitment and so over the years through all the different experiences that he went through his relationship with this living God became deeper and deeper he started to get to know this God experientially when we first have our salvation experience a lot of it is just head knowledge whatever the preacher told us during the salvation message that's basically all we know but then when we start spending time with God when we start studying the scriptures and as we spend time in prayer and even as we fellowship with other believers who tell us things that we need to know getting to know this God experientially we practice what is being taught and then we discover that God actually comes through for us and so it's now no longer intellectual knowledge now it is experiential knowledge which you're personally experiencing with him on a daily basis and the bond is established between you and the Lord and so when Abraham was asked to go and sacrifice his son he's now been with the Lord long enough and this love relationship that he has with the Lord has reached a point where now he trusts God you see it's no longer just head knowledge of God he has experienced this God in different situations he's been through so much and now so he now through experience he trusts this God and so he tells himself under that night sky God promise me that I will have lots of descendants but now the same God is telling me go and sacrifice your son once I sacrifice my son he's going to be dead and there are going to be no descendants so because I know this God I know that he's a God of truth and a God of love and a God of faithfulness therefore I'll just go ahead and do what God is telling me to do I'll go ahead and kill my son that's quite a horrible thought to even think because you see you would have to take a knife and slit his throat or stab him I mean probably he would just slit his throat because that's the most merciful way you can kill your child so he actually gets ready to do that because you see this is the reasoning that is there in his mind Hebrew 1117 to 19 very clearly tells us what's going on inside Abraham's mind this is what Abraham is thinking in his mind at that point of time Abraham reasons that God could even raise the dead so he tells himself no problem I'll go ahead and kill my son because God is going to raise him from the dead because God made a promise and God will never lie God is faithful so it's okay I'll kill my son because I know for a fact that God will raise him from the dead because God promised me that I will have descendants from my own flesh not from the slave from my own flesh I will have a descendant I will have innumerable descendants like the stars of the sky so therefore he chooses to believe that he's going to actually kill his son and God will raise him from the dead that is the level of faith that he had so you see this was faith which was expressing itself through love he loves the Lord and trusts him so much by this time that he's willing to just do what God is asking even though that is the most painful thing that God could have been asking him so why have we gone through this in such great detail why have we talked about this in such great detail because it applies to us believers today there are going to be many times in our life where God is going to ask us for the most precious thing it's not a bad thing having a son is not a bad thing in the same way whatever it is that is dear to your heart it's not a bad thing but God asks you to give up that simply because he doesn't want us to get attached to the things or the people but attached to him because that is where actual satisfaction lies as long as you are very attached to a thing or a person there's no actual satisfaction because only God can fully satisfy so all he does is why he does this from time to time where he asks us to sacrifice the precious things it's just so that we get our focus off that thing which is so precious when we are born to him our attachment deepens with him rather than towards that particular thing or object and that helps us to stay in a stable way because suddenly when that thing is removed we will not fall because now our bond with the Lord has been established and strengthened even if that thing is shaken like that man who lost his entire family will say it is well with my soul I mean he stands there in the waters and he sings that song and he says it is well with my soul because you see his bond had now been formed with the Lord his family was not the center of his world the Lord was the center of his world so God does this from time to time and we will be able to act like Abraham and express our faith through love if we have developed that love relationship with him over the years it's not something that just happens it is something that we cultivate so this is how a genuine faith relationship with the Lord works on the other hand there is a fake kind of faith we see a good example of that in the same chapter over here in James chapter 2 where James talks about the fake kind of faith as well James chapter 2 verse 19 so if we can have someone read out for us James chapter 2 verse 19 you believe that there is one God you do well even the demons believe and tremble amen the demons have faith that God exists that God is real the demons believe this truth so clearly that it scares them, it terrifies them because they know that this God is real and one day judgment is going to be coming so Satan better win is what they are hoping because they know for a fact God is real and is all powerful they have seen him acting over the thousands of years that this world has existed it makes them shudder, it frightens them the reality of how real he is so they have faith but their faith has not led to a salvation experience because you see it is not a faith expressed through love that belief that they have in God has not caused them to love God or be loyal to him trust him or submit to him it is just an intellectual belief that they have so we believers are called to have a faith that expresses itself through love where you where you are grateful for what God has done for you and so you start reaching out to him, you start building your relationship with him and as you start doing that he starts putting his fruit of love patience kindness inside you and you start being loving towards other believers and by doing that you are now fulfilling the two commandments which Jesus requires as to fulfill you start loving the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind and you start loving the people around you the same way you love yourself so that starts happening so that is the genuine faith a faith which expresses itself so we were looking at this Galatians chapter 5 verse 6 is basically where Paul made this statement, he said in Jesus there is neither a circumcision or uncircumcision both of them have no value so you can't say that because you are uncircumcised you are superior to the Jewish believers who got circumcised when they were kids uncircumcision doesn't make you superior uncircumcision also doesn't make you superior the only way anyone can actually have a salvation experience and come into the family is through this faith which expresses itself through love now much later on in Galatians chapter 6 verse verses 15 and 16 Paul makes the same statement again and brings in a new idea so you know we may in fact run out of time by the time we reach Galatians chapter 6 so I really want to touch upon that right now okay so if you can just go to Galatians chapter 6 and read out those two verses so that you know we can complete this thought about how circumcision and uncircumcision don't count Galatians chapter 6 verses 15 and 16 if someone could read out please for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything but a new creation and as many as walk according to this rule peace and mercy be upon them and upon the Israel of God ya so he's already finished giving all the all the explanations which we have not yet gone through but this is him basically summing up the whole thing so here around the end of the letter this is what he again repeats he says so you see circumcision doesn't count for much uncircumcision also doesn't achieve anything much what counts is the new creation because if a person has that has placed their faith in God and it's a genuine faith which expresses itself through love if it is that kind of a genuine faith in that moment when they place that faith in Jesus Jesus makes them into a new creation through the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit you know births a new creation inside them so now they become a new creation literally and so this new creation lives in a particular way it walks in step with the spirit we will be looking at the details of all that a new creation does in Galatians chapter 5 and 6 so that is how a new creation starts behaving so it really doesn't matter whether you're circumcised or not circumcised what really counts is that you have you have this genuine faith which expresses itself through love and you are behaving every day like a new creation not like your old self which was crucified but rather you are conducting yourself like a new creation and then in verse 16 he says peace and mercy to all who follow this rule they have understood this truth that salvation involves faith which expresses itself through love and salvation involves you behaving more like a new creation day by day anyone who has understood this peace peace and mercy to them because you see they are the true Israel of God these judisers and all these other people who go on proclaiming and boasting that they are the Israelites that they are the people of God they are not the people of God actually it's these new creations who are the actual true Israel of God so you and I who are not even from Israel we have been born in other nations and we are basically what they used to call as gentiles that is who we are we are the true Israel of God we are the ones with the actual privileges which God promised to Abraham the inheritance is ours so he is bringing out the beauty of what we actually have in Christ and so he says please don't go back to the mosaic law the mosaic law can't give you any of those things Christ is of no value to you if you go back to the law in fact you will lose out on everything that Christ has promised please hold on to Christ because you can only gain this inheritance through Christ not by going back to the law so that was the point that he was making now let's move on to the next portion of our passage so we are going back to Galatians chapter 5 and if we can have someone read out for us verses 13 to 15 Galatians 5 13 to 15 beway at least you be consumed by one another amen yaa so here he says yes you have been set free from the law but you have not been set free from the law to go and live a sinful life you have been set free from the law so that now you can live in love it's a faith which has to be expressed through love that is what you have been set free for so this is not a license to go and sin this freedom which you have been given from the law it's not a license to go and sin rather you should now be serving one another humbly why because the entire law is fulfilled in keeping one single command loving your neighbor as yourself and of course you will only be able to love your neighbor as yourself if you are in the process of loving God with all your heart soul and mind so these two laws they go together so what is Paul saying finally is he saying keep the law or is he saying don't keep the law because over here he says if you serve one another humbly you will be fulfilling the law but all along we thought we were not supposed to be fulfilling the law so what exactly should we conclude as New Testament believers living in the modern church today should we follow the law should we not follow the law it says over here that if we keep this one law then we will be fulfilling the entire law so should we keep the law are we keeping the law all these questions arise so we need to understand and get it very very clear what our stance should be as believers today regarding the Old Testament law Jesus whatever he said regarding the Old Testament law that is what we should abide by because now we see we have become followers of Jesus so whatever he says that we accept that we believe that we do so this is how Jesus interpreted the Old Testament law for us who are going to be his followers this is what he said there are some laws which he just completely abolished that's the first category a whole bunch of mosaic laws which he just outright cancelled nullified not to be followed you don't even have to worry about them anymore one example ok maybe we could have someone read out for us Mark 7 versus 18 to 19 20 maybe Mark 7 18 to 20 Mark 7 18 to 20 if someone could read out please let me say to them are you thus without understanding also do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him because it does not enter his heart but his stomach and is eliminated thus purifying all foods and he said what comes out of a man that defiles a man alright so the term over there thus purifying all the food or something I mean that's the NKJV I don't have it here with me I have the NIV with me NIV tries to explain what that small little phrase meant so here in the NIV it says in saying this Jesus declared all foods clean by making the statement thus purifying all the foods so this is basically Jesus throwing light on the Old Testament command and saying yes you were given a whole bunch of food laws about what you should eat what you should not eat what you should regard as clean and what you should regard as unclean yes you were told all those things but have you noticed all those things are just externals it doesn't in any way help with your internal spiritual condition because a person can be very careful in eating the right foods they can be very careful about the ceremonial washing and the cleaning and all of that and have a whole bunch of hatred and greed and pride inside so Jesus says have you noticed even though the Old Testament law says this the things which actually are going inside your stomach the pork or the very Old Testament spiritually clean locust whether you are having the locust or the pork both of them go inside they go to the intestines and from there they come out so actually it's not doing anything bad but actually where is the dirt coming from in verse 20 Jesus says what comes out of a person is what defiles them and then he goes on to give a list of all the defiling things that are there in a person and he says all these evils come from inside and defile a person so that is what is actually dirty that is what you should be dealing with so what Jesus did was he took Old Testament laws like this and he explained to them he showed them that the Old Testament law was only able to go this far and was able to maybe make a point was maybe able to teach a lesson was maybe able to control the people to some extent but it couldn't go all the way so now Jesus takes many many Old Testament scriptures like this Old Testament laws belonging to the mosaic law 113 mosaic laws he picks up certain things like this and he explains them and shows them how the law was actually not adequate what he is saying is completing the picture and this is what is expected from a follower of Jesus now so in that way he abolished a whole bunch of Old Testament laws which are no longer applicable to his followers his followers are now called believers that's what we call ourselves but any follower of his would not need to follow these laws which have been outright abolished so now the second thing there are two laws which he goes on talking about very very important to him one is Leviticus 1918 and the other is Deutronomy 65 because those are the two commandments where it says love the Lord with all your heart soul and mind please love your neighbour as yourself Deutronomy 65 and Leviticus 1918 when it comes to these two laws Jesus is very particular about them we were doing John's Gospel most of you had not joined for that class but then when we were doing that there is a lot of emphasis that he lays on these two commandments he says you got to keep them because when you do that then you will abide in me if you don't keep these two commandments you will not even abide in me he takes these two Old Testament laws he redefines them explains to us how we should be applying them in the New Testament context again he use some examples he gives he says what is there in the 10 commandments it says you shall not murder but this is what I am saying regarding this particular Old Testament commandment it's not enough for you to just avoid taking a knife and stabbing someone it goes much beyond that you should not even be holding a grudge in your heart against a brother or sister because that also is equal to murder and then he goes on to say all this is happening in Matthew chapter 5 verses 21 to 30 okay Matthew 5 21 to 30 he says it was told long ago you shall not murder but I tell you and then he goes on to explain what he believes is the actual complete picture of what this commandment means so he goes on to say you shall not call someone a fool he says in verse 23 if you have come there to the temple to give some nice gift to the Lord and then you remember that you have something against another brother or sister or they have something against you put down that gift first go over there reconcile with that brother because that is what it's valuable to God then you can come back and give your gift that's not the important thing it's that living in love which is important because this is a faith which has to be expressed through love so he gives new clarity to these 10 commandments and all the other 603 commandments because there are totally 613 mosaic laws so in the same way I mean in verse Matthew chapter 5 verse 27 he takes another example he says you know it was told to you you shall not commit adultery but this is my definition of what adultery is and this is what I expect you to do and he goes on to explain further regarding that John chapter 7 verse 23 is another good example where he is talking about circumcision and he says according to the law of moses John 7 23 according to the law of moses a child can be circumcised and it will not be considered as work so if circumcision is not considered as work on the Sabbath day then don't you think that the healing of an entire man's whole body should also be considered as a good work and not as a work which comes under the law of moses the exact wording in John 7 23 is this now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of moses may not be broken why you angry with me for healing a man's whole body on the Sabbath because you see under the Old Testament that act of circumcision is supposed to purify you and bring you under into the kingdom of God and now what is Jesus doing is making a person completely holy well releasing his crucifixion power into that person so isn't this a greater act of deliverance than what that physical act of circumcision could do in the Old Testament so what Jesus is doing over here is taking that Sabbath law one of the 10 commandments is giving it a new interpretation is redefining this old commandment and saying you know what the Sabbath law let's look at it in this light the Sabbath law is talking about what the deliverance which I can give to people if you will you know set aside other things and focus on me so he's bringing a whole new meaning to this law of the Sabbath so you know before we get into the break if I can just take one minute are we going to keep the Old Testament law as believers today no but these things which Jesus has specifically told us to follow and the new interpretation that he has given to these Old Testament laws we have to follow because we are followers of Jesus we will look at a third category of Old Testament law which we will look at after we come back from the break so at 10 o'clock if we all can log back in place thank you