Let me break it down: <span class=" fbUnderline">Rom 3:19-31, 1 Cor 5:6-8, </span>.
The Law is like an X-ray it shows our brokenness. The Law can do an autopsy, it tells why we die. <span class=" fbUnderline">The Law cannot heal brokenness, nor can the Law reanimate people dead in sin.</span>
Unlike today's medical examinations and process of diagnosing problems where we pay the doctor, we don't have to pay a thing.
Praise God though for Christ. Our Passover Lamb. Christ paid all the debt for all the people, "for the joy set before him, He endured the cross!" <span class=" fbUnderline"><hebrews></hebrews></span>
<span class=" fbUnderline">Romans 6:1-14</span>
Christ does more than X-ray, he doesn't just set bones, he sets our souls! Christ does more than a medical examiner, he doesn't just identify our cause of death but he brings the dead to life!!
Not done yet!
While Jesus was having dinner at MAtthew's house, many tax collectors and 'sinners' came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?" On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy [to show love, unconditional, forgiving], not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
<span class=" fbUnderline">Matthew 9:2-13</span>
<span class=" fbUnderline">Romans 3:23</span> We’re all sick, we all fall short.
Still not done!
I’ll speak for myself. I don’t want someone to give me an X-ray and leave. I don’t want someone to give me an autopsy. And I don’t want to be a slave to the ways that go to death (<span class=" fbUnderline">Rom 5</span>). I don’t want the Law. I can’t live up to the Law. I want a doctor. I have a doctor. I have Jesus.
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