"Then Jesus said to them, 'I will ask you one thing: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy?'" (Lk.6:9)
For religious people, the purpose of the Law is "to do evil" and "to destroy." For Jesus, the purpose of the Law is "to do good" and "to save life."
Rushdoony uses a great phrase in writing of the Law, which, if you have never heard it, I want to introduce to you. He refers to the Law as the "Law-Word." To religionists of the first century, Jesus was a breaker of The Law, because they refused to see the Law as the "Law-Word" of God. It was just a list of dos and don'ts to them. Religious people distort the Law because they refuse to see Personhood in The Law, the One Whom the Bible declares to be, "The Word of God," Jesus.
In the economy of the Blessed Trinity, the Law is the giver of Life, because in the Law is the revelation of Jesus Christ-- "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill." Jesus is not the destroyer. Jesus is The Savior. The Law is destruction and "death" only to those who refuse Jesus Christ and His reign in their lives.
Watch Jesus' Life in the Gospels and you see, "came to fulfill," at ever turn. Even in the "hard" things, we see the, "good," and, "save," of God.
Father, in Jesus' Name, always help me to see "good" and "save" in Your Law-Word. Amen.
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