Me: Ready for church?
Prodigal: Yes, it is that day of the week.
Me: Maybe I can share first.
This is from the book How Firm a Foundation: A Gift of Jewish Wisdom for Christians and Jews by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
“How do we know that the duty of saving life supersedes the Sabbath?” asks the Talmud. Rabbi Jonathan ben Joseph said, “It is written in the Scriptures “You shall keep the sabbath, because it is holy for you’ (Exodus 31:14, emphasis added). this implies that the sabbath is committed to you, not to the sabbath”. The similarity between these ideas and Jesus’ keen awareness of , and probably entrenchment in, the pharisaic tradition and the sanctity of man over the Shabbat.
Jesus really did understand the law, so maybe He really did come to overcome the law. So we do not have to live by the law today we just have to surrender to Jesus.
Galatians 1:12
For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
