Those who know how to get there, do not need a map. The Law was given to us because we forgot how to get there. The Law was given as a result of sin, but the Law did not change God’s nature. The Law did not change what God wants His people to do, instead it provides a way for us to know what good looks like.

If the OT Law was like a big folded map, Jesus is like a GPS system. He finds us where we are and helps us to find the way, making as many redirections as needed.

But, quickly, my friend Frank, neo-nomist, looks to the good side of the law but ignores the law as a curse. The law, as Paul points out, is a consequence of sin; Duetoronomy comes after Genesis.

I think that we have to be careful to balance the Law God gives us to restrain our post fall sinfulness and the fact that the law was not enough and Christ came as the end (teleos in Gk). The end is not end as in finish but end as in “purpose”. Christ fulfills the law that it may no more be a curse but instead is a joy.

Which, maybe, is Franks point I guess. Maybe we agre after all.

No comparison. It’s the difference between living life looking at the fuzz buster and living life as a newlywed in love. Yep, grace changes everything.

Now, if we could just remember that a thousand times a day.