PRESERVING OUR PAST FOR A GREATER TODAY AND TOMORROW

<p>Jesus’s teachings have shaken the foundation of His Jewish followers. Has He come to replace the Law and the Prophets?  No, Jesus moves to reassure them that He has not come to destroy but to fulfill. In Him all the teachings that God had given them will be complete in Him.</p> <p>What does that mean for us today?  Jesus came to transfer our vision for living from the Law to Himself, while He will preserve all that Moses and the Prophets have given the Jews and the Gentiles.  Jesus preserves the past in order to to the world the salvation of God for today and forever.</p> <p>Jesus goes on to teach them the deeper meaning of what it is to follow Him.  Freedom from the Law, but also a far more sacrificial life of denying self, taking up one’s cross, and to follow Him in His new commandments.</p>