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It is thoroughly possible, plausible and even necessary to separate Christianity from Judaism without being considered an anti-Semite.
Jesus spent the majority of his ministry providing parameters for a New Covenant, which was followed by the Apostle Paul becoming downright blunt over the need to extract the message of Jesus from the Jewish tradition.
Yet most evangelicals and many mainline denominational churches continue to foster a sense of equivalency between the Old Testament and the New Testament simply because they know two important factors about their congregations:
- They don’t want to lose the ability to seek revenge with “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”
- They need Jesus to remain the “Lamb that was slain” instead of the Lion, roaring out his commands.
INFUSION OF JESUS
So actually, the teachings of Jesus, the personality of the Nazarene and the mindset of the Christ are often considered to be an intrusion to the organized church instead of welcomed as an infusion.
Simply put, Jesus did not come to contradict the Old Testament–but he certainly did arrive to countermand it. If you’re not familiar with that word, it is most often used in military circles to explain why some officer, usually of a higher rank, comes along to revoke or change the orders of the previous commander. It’s a nice way of saying, “We’re going to change things up.”
MEN OF OLD
Jesus cleverly referred to it as “fulfilling the law.” What an excellent, political word! He then turns around, and in fulfilling that Law, disassembles the instructions of Moses by referring to those who founded Oral Law and taught it as “men of old.”
If we want to become a Jesonian church, infusing the lifestyle of Jesus instead of viewing it as an intrusion, we must understand that, as Hebrews the First Chapter explains, God used to speak through Moses and the prophets, but not anymore. Now He speaks through Jesus.
So stop using Old Testament patriarchs to try to countermand Jesus.
Case in point: it is no longer the Kingdom of Israel–Jesus describes it as the Kingdom of God, which is located inside each and every believer. The new Holy Land is within your soul.
The challenge in this generation is to cease looking at our example, Jesus, as an intrusion, and begin to take his choices and use them as an infusion into our everyday existence.
It should keep us busy–because it’s very difficult to insist that Jesus was a Jewish prophet when he said things like:
“Before Abraham was, I am.”
“God can take stones and make children of Abraham.”
And “Your house is left to you desolate.”
Jesus was a new day.
Jesus was a new way.
And he came along proclaiming
“What you say? Go my way.”
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