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Imagine if you will, King David meeting a modern Evangelical believer…
DAVID: Shalom! You there. You have the look of someone who loves the God of Israel.
EVAN: Oh, absolutely! Jesus is my Lord and Savior. Huge fan of yours too, by the way. “Man after God’s own heart” and all that.
DAVID: You flatter me. Tell me, from which tribe do you descend?
EVAN: Oh, I’m not Jewish. I’m from Kentucky.
DAVID: …Is that near Ephraim?
EVAN: No, it’s in America. I’m a Gentile. But I’ve been grafted in!
DAVID: Grafted in! Wonderful. So the nations are finally streaming to Zion as the prophets foretold. Tell me, how do you keep the Sabbath in this… Ken-tucky?
EVAN: Oh, we don’t do the Sabbath. We go to church on Sunday.
DAVID: blinks
DAVID: You… moved the day.
EVAN: Well, the law was nailed to the cross.
DAVID: The law was… I’m sorry, could you say that again? I had something crazy in my ear just now.
EVAN: The old covenant passed away! We’re under grace now.
DAVID: The covenant that the Almighty called eternal. That one passed away.
EVAN: Right! Paul says…
DAVID: Who is Paul?
EVAN: Oh, he’s a Pharisee who met Jesus on a road and then wrote most of the New Testament.
DAVID: A Pharisee. Overruled the Torah. And you trusted him.
EVAN: Well, he was inspired by the Holy Spirit.
DAVID: The same Spirit that inspired the Torah?
EVAN: …Yes?
DAVID: So the Spirit contradicted Himself.
EVAN: No! He fulfilled the law through Jesus. So we don’t have to keep it anymore.
DAVID: Let me see if I understand. Your God fulfilled His own commandments… and the conclusion you drew from this was to stop obeying them.
EVAN: When you put it that way it sounds…
DAVID: I wrote an entire psalm about how the law is perfect, how it revives the soul, how it is more desirable than gold. Psalm 19. You’ve read it, yes?
EVAN: Of course! I love that psalm!
DAVID: And then you thought, “Beautiful poem. Anyway, the law is dead.”
EVAN: It’s not that simple…
DAVID: I also wrote Psalm 119. All 176 verses. About the law. I wept over the law. I meditated on it day and night. I called it a lamp to my feet. You are telling me the lamp has been… unplugged?
EVAN: We have the Holy Spirit now as our guide!
DAVID: Guide to what?
EVAN: Righteousness!
DAVID: And how do you define righteousness?
EVAN: Living according to God’s will.
DAVID: And where is God’s will written down?
EVAN: …
DAVID: Take your time.
EVAN: The Bible?
DAVID: Which part?
EVAN: All of it?
DAVID: INCLUDING the law?
EVAN: …I think I need to sit down.
DAVID: The Almighty told Moses this covenant was for all generations. “All generations” in Hebrew is l’dor v’dor. Do you know what that does NOT mean?
EVAN: What?
DAVID: “Until Kentucky.“
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