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**Wednesday (6-10) **
2 Cor 3:4-11:
Brothers and Sisters: Such confidence we have through Christ toward God… Not that of ourselves we are qualified to take credit for anything as coming from us; rather, our qualification comes from God, who has indeed qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of Spirit; for the letter brings death, but the Spirit gives life. Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of its glory that was going to fade, how much more will the ministry of the Spirit be glorious? for if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, the ministry of righteousness will abound much more in glory. Indeed, what was endowed with glory has come to have no glory in this respect because of the glory that surpasses it. For if what was going to fade was glorious, how much more will what endures be glorious.
St Mt 5:17-19:
Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until Heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of Heaven. But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the kingdom of Heaven.”
*It sounds like the letter of the law (Commandments given to Moses) are not such a good thing… (…if one were to read this psg alone, out of context with the rest of the Sciptures…). Frankly, i love the letter of the law… i wish people would obey Jesus’ Commandments a whole lot better than they do… would make MY life a lot easier…
but i get the gist of the psg.
What i don’t get is why Jesus says that whoever breaks the least of the Commandmetns will be called least in the kingdom of Heaven…
I thought if you broke the Commandments, you were 86’d OUT of the kingdom…
… a ticket to fry and all that…
but maybe if you only break the LEAST… and not the greatest…??? *
2 Cor 3:4-11:
Brothers and Sisters: Such confidence we have through Christ toward God… Not that of ourselves we are qualified to take credit for anything as coming from us; rather, our qualification comes from God, who has indeed qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of Spirit; for the letter brings death, but the Spirit gives life. Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of its glory that was going to fade, how much more will the ministry of the Spirit be glorious? for if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, the ministry of righteousness will abound much more in glory. Indeed, what was endowed with glory has come to have no glory in this respect because of the glory that surpasses it. For if what was going to fade was glorious, how much more will what endures be glorious.
St Mt 5:17-19:
Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until Heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of Heaven. But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the kingdom of Heaven.”
*It sounds like the letter of the law (Commandments given to Moses) are not such a good thing… (…if one were to read this psg alone, out of context with the rest of the Sciptures…). Frankly, i love the letter of the law… i wish people would obey Jesus’ Commandments a whole lot better than they do… would make MY life a lot easier…
but i get the gist of the psg.
What i don’t get is why Jesus says that whoever breaks the least of the Commandmetns will be called least in the kingdom of Heaven…
I thought if you broke the Commandments, you were 86’d OUT of the kingdom…
… a ticket to fry and all that…but maybe if you only break the LEAST… and not the greatest…??? *