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Excerpted from: Truth (Part 4)

Very interesting statements. The death of Jesus Christ does not do away with law, but with enmity. The enmity of the law is the penalties that come with the law. A law always has penalties. The enmity of the law can be considered those prejudicial things that we expressed in dogmas that also separated other peoples and nations, in this case from the Israelitish people. But because we both believe in Christ and therefore have Him in common, it begins to break down the enmities and prejudices that have kept us separated. Did you notice I said it was only the beginning?

Let me add one more thing here (this becomes important in just a few minutes). It is interesting at the end of verse 15, "so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace." It is very easy for us to be drawn into thinking that what He is doing is when He calls the unconverted person, or when He calls, let us say, the Gentile, and He brings them in contact with the Israelite, that the Gentile is going to be brought up to speed, and brought up to the same level as the Israelite. Get that out of your mind. That is not what He is saying here.

Do you know what He is saying? He is saying this: He is bringing the Israelite and the Gentile together and He melts them both down and puts them together into one. That is a wholly different picture altogether. Look at that. "[T]o create in Himself one new man from the two." From two, you make one. You melt them down and mix them together because neither one of them is any good.

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