The Meaning Of Life

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/deuteronomy/29.htm

Father, as we spend time in Your word, guide us, enlighten us, and show us the way. Amen.

“…you may enter into covenant with the Lord your God, and into His oath, which the Lord your God makes with you today, 13that He may establish you today as a people for Himself, and that He may be God to you, just as He has spoken to you, and just as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

It is quite obvious to me, not just from this passage but from many others, that the Hebrews (the children of Israel/Jacob), were God’s chosen people. Then why do we not follow God’s laws? Jesus was a Jew, and He followed God’s law, why don’t we. Even though we are not Hebrew or Jewish, we are “Christians” which mean to follow Christ, who was a Jew, so as Gentiles, should we be “spiritual Jews” and follow the laws of God? I know Jesus died on the cross, but that only abolished the ceremonial laws like the sacrifice of animals to atone for our sins…Jesus atoned for us. But Jesus said, “I’ve not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it.” If Jesus Christ followed the law, and we follow Jesus, why don’t we follow the law?

Pastors constantly teach, “those laws were just for the Jews and they don’t apply to us”. So Christians don’t follow Christ then? Maybe Christians follow Christian Slater instead, or Christian Dior. Is that it?

The Old Testament is still valid…God does not change. And the last time I checked, Christians follow the God of Abraham, so we should follow the laws that Abraham followed.

The laws applied to Jesus, and Jesus was a Jew.

If we are followers of Jesus, then we should follow the law as well?

And if we should follow the law as well, then this covenant, which applied to the Hebrews at the time, applies to us as well.

Be very wary. Follow the Bible, not the pastor, unless he teaches from the Bible. But he cannot teach from the Bible if he says God’s law is no longer valid.