Is Christianity Jewish? - [Luke 5:33-39]

All right, I'm not even going to recommend a book tonight. Let's just get right into it. If you have your Bibles Why don't you turn to Romans chapter 11? We won't be there for very long. But Romans chapter 11 as we continue our series in the parables and you say there's not a parable in Romans chapter 11.

I know that but that'll be our springboard. We're just picking a variety of parables on Sunday night and going through them. Verse by verse in the parable sections a lot in Luke and then this fall Lord willing will be in the book of Ruth.

By the way, does anybody know what the most important part about Ruth is? What is the key to Ruth and without it you don't understand the book of Ruth. Trust in God that's kind of like, you know what you say to your kids after Sunday school.

What'd you learn about in Sunday school God? What about God trust in God? Trusting in God will certainly trust in God's important. Doug Tinsman Redeemer is an excellent concept. I'm not sure if it's the most important, but we see that concept of Christ there.

Close that's probably a close number two. Yes Karen. Obedience, that's a good one. Now you're gonna have to show up in the fall to figure out what I'm talking about. We'll learn then. I won't tell you What until then.

No just kidding. The most important part about the book of Ruth is that out of her line the seed of David shall come. If you don't get that you don't get the book of Ruth that out of this Moabitess woman that God would use her so Jesus Christ Would come through the line of David, but we'll do that this fall.

By the way, if you're just visiting tonight welcome and Sunday nights. We kind of talk back a little bit and so if I ask you a question on a Sunday night literally you may answer it if I ask you a question on Sunday morning literally it is rhetorical.

So God just led me to say that did you have a did you have a piece about coming back tonight? Our visitors are thinking what is going on with this guy? We had a message this morning about how to analyze peace and feelings and being led and Circumstances and open doors and closed doors and so for those of you that do have questions in our own congregation.

Hang in there with me. Next week and even the week after before you send me the nasty grams or whatever might be the emails. Because we want to cover all the bases and today was kind of Shock value and then we'll reel it in a little bit more to talk about the issues of how we make real biblical decisions.

Grace Alone Versus Grace Plus Works

We'll look at Romans chapter 11 verse 6 and this is of course in the context of does God still have Faithful pact with Israel did he forget about Israel, but on a larger scale. Verse 6 says but if it is by grace it is no longer on the basis of works.

Otherwise grace is no longer grace. Whether applying to Israel or applying to anything else. Do you know if you take 99 billion parts of grace and add 0 .5 percent part of works? What do you get? You get works and so you can take all the grace that you want.

And if you add a little bit of works you nullify everything. Grace plus works equals works. Grace alone is grace alone and tonight. We're going to look at this topic of what happens when? Grace Gets mixed with works and you will see Jesus trying to make a very clear demarcation.

So that doesn't happen and so let's go to that passage Luke at chapter 5 as we see two things that don't mix. Like oil and water grace and works do not mix. Can you think of other things that don't mix by the way as you're turning there to Luke 5?

Fire and gasoline do mix and they they have come it's called combustion. What doesn't mix? That should not be mixed, but it can be mixed in the sense. What else doesn't mix I? Could only think of oil and water and so when you can't think of anything else as a pastor you ask the congregation for help grace and Works don't mix, but is there anything else so next time I preach this I'll have a better intro.

Well tonight, let's take a look at this passage in Luke chapter 5 and we will see the theme not only of grace. And works are mutually exclusive, but we will see that Christianity is not a Religion of addition it is a religion of instead of did you get that?

Christianity is not something that you add on to your life. It's like the Hindu who was preached the gospel. He had the gospel preached to me said that's great. I'll just accept Jesus and what he meant by that was I'll accept Jesus and not exclude anything else.

I can be a Hindu and love Jesus too. When Christ comes along and he demands it all and it's only an exclusive. It's an exclusive religion, and so you can't say I will add Jesus into my pantheon of gods.

It's Jesus or it's nothing so it's not addition. It's instead of Jesus instead of everything else and by the way, this is very hot in evangelical circles today that people don't want to Offend people.

It's offensive. I was just asked about nine days ago Pastor what do you think about Islam? And I had to tell them well, there's certainly some nice people in Islam. It's a monotheistic religion. But it's a works righteousness religion.

And if you follow it to the day you die you will be damned because you will have to pay for your own sin instead Of having Jesus pay for your sins. It's not very politically correct the kind of conversation stopped after that.

And the same kind of thing is going to happen here in Luke chapter 5 where these Pharisees come and try to get Jesus to have his Religion tucked nicely underneath their works righteous legalistic hypocrisy.

Luke chapter 5 starts off when Jesus is teaching the men how to fish and then he says you're going to be fishers of men. And verse 10 then he heals a leper then he heals a paralytic and now we move into verse 27 for a little bit of context and after that he went out.

Luke 5 27 I'm in the New American Standard tonight and Noticed a tax gatherer named Levi sitting in the tax office and he said to him follow me. You just see everything caught up in that repent believe he says follow me and he left everything behind and he had to he was a rotten tax gatherer and Began to follow him and now Levi does something that's so great.

He influences people for the Lord and introduces the Lord to his old friends before his old friends drop him like a hot potato. It's good you get saved. You might still start preaching early because you might lose friends when God saves you and leave.

I gave a big reception for him capital H Christ in his house. And there was a great crowd of tax gatherers and other people who were reclining at the table with them. The Pharisees and their scribes began grumbling at his disciples saying why do you eat and drink with such tax gatherers and sinners?

Now we're reading all this because remember every parable and its meaning can be found by its local what Context there's a situation or an occasion for the parable and that's what we're trying to figure out here.

The Pharisees and the scribes are grumbling. You guys are having big parties. You're having a festival. You're happy. You're joyful. Verse 31 and Jesus answered and said to them it is not those who are well who need a physician.

But those who are sick see they realize it. I've not come to call the righteous self-righteous. But sinners to repentance and they said to him the disciples of John often fast and offer prayers. The disciples of the Pharisees also do the same but yours eat and drink.

And that leads us to the parable that's going to come up soon. Now. Jesus doesn't give a direct answer right away. He's going to lead into it and we want to ask the question tonight. What does this parable mean?

What's going to happen in verse? In the verses to follow. What were they doing? They were fasting. I have a trick question for you. Maybe it's not so tricky. Tell me some Bible commands for us to fast today.

You don't even need to give me the reference. You can just quote the verse if you like. Where are the verses that it's where it tells us to fast today? Some of you are looking down some of you are smiling.

A couple are going. Mm-hmm. Well, let me ask you another question. Then. Why did people fast in the Old Testament times? Why would you fast. I remember Kim and I have for we first got saved and we said we're fasting every Tuesday every Tuesday.

We're gonna fast, you know religious fast and we'll pray more and stuff. Why would people fast in the Old Testament? To show grief. That's the answer. Thank you. Is your dad a pastor? That is awesome to show grief.

Let me just read a couple to you fasting. Did you know is always associated with times of trouble or testing? Always associated with times of trouble are testing. I Don't have time to give you a whole excursus of fasting but 2nd Samuel chapter 12 David was begging for his son's life.

He said to Nathan I've sinned against the Lord. Nathan replied The Lord has taken away your sin. You're not going to die. Verse 16 David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and went into his house and spent the nights lying on the ground fasting.

In Sadness trial trouble. King Jehovah's a fat was threatened by the Moabites and the Ammonites. Alarmed he resolved inquire of the Lord and he proclaimed a fast for all Judah. We're gonna get invaded by another country.

It's time to fast. Queen Esther and all the Jews in Susa for three full days they fasted while they wanted the Jews to be spared. Times of trouble times of testing and now we have two groups of fasters.

We've got the disciples of John the Baptist and the Pharisees are the disciples of the Pharisees. Now, why do you think John's John the Baptist disciples were fasting? Okay, he's in jail good his message was a Easy for me to say his message the Lord led me to say it that way.

Yeah, yeah, that's right his message was a message of repentance which was tied in to fasting. Excellent. I think of Matthew 11 18 for John came neither eating or drinking. How about the Pharisees? Why were they fasting?

It was a great show-off thing, wasn't it? Boy? I'm fasting and Standing there and oh, I'm fasting another day. Remember Luke 18 where the tax get the the Pharisee said I fast how many days a week? Twice a week.

Now there were certain fast in the Old Testament. But the only fast they really had to do was the day of atonement in Leviticus chapter 16. Which was once a year here. They're fasting twice a week. Super spiritual.

Reminds me of the story of I read this week a man bought a new radio. Brought it home placed it on the refrigerator plugged it in turn it to WSM in Nashville. Home of the grand old Opry pulled off all the knobs he had already tuned in all he ever wanted are expected to hear.

You listen to grand old Opry Brian. Okay Pharisees are fasting. John the Baptist disciples are fasting. Everybody's mourning and have a gloomy face. Remember Jesus is when you fast don't have that gloomy face on.

We're so pious and look at your folks Jesus your disciples then implicating Jesus by that. They're not fasting. They're having a feast with all these wicked people fasting versus feasting and. So Jesus gives one marriage analogy and two parables to answer them in a very strange way like only Jesus could do.

Look at the marriage analogy first. We have all these BBC weddings around here. We'll see if anybody breaks the mold, but I bet you they won't. Marissa Nelson got married last Saturday. And we had ourselves a good old-fashioned Fast that night the table decorations had a little bit of ashes and we just all wiped it on our faces.

Everybody's super gloomy. The best man got up and Tried to offer a toast of joy, but everybody was just. It just a stupid isn't it when somebody gets married? It is a party and if you were back in the Middle East.

It wasn't just a party for the reception night. It was a seven-day party. You are king and queen not for a day, but king and queen for a week. Can you imagine a reception the newly with the the newly engaged ones back here going?

Yeah, that's right. And Andrew says that you will you know, my bank account can't handle it for a week. Some people never got that time off in their entire life except when there was a wedding and it was a joy.

And that's exactly what Jesus is gonna say verse 34 of Luke 5. Jesus said to them you cannot make the attendance of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them. Can you? You wouldn't do that that goes against nature that goes against the festival and the rejoicing of marriage.

Think of Revelation 19 let us rejoice and be glad and give glory to him for the marriage of the Lamb has come and his bride Has made herself ready. You don't fast when the bridegroom is there would be insane it'd be improper.

Fasting is out of place. I Remember what John 3 says. John answered and said a man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. You yourselves bear witness with me that I said I am NOT the Christ, but I have been sent before him.

Listen carefully. He who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friends of the bridegroom who stand and hears him rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. And so this joy of mine has been made full.

See the veiled little analogy and description of Jesus the bridegroom. William Hendrickson said if it'd be true that God with us Emanuel spells joy for the disciples should not God within us the Holy Spirit awakened in every child of God.

Joy unspeakable and full of glory. The point is Jesus is here. Why would all my Jesus says I'm here. Why would all my disciples be fasting? I'm here. What does he say though the next verse? You see it.

What's he say, but the days are going to come when you will fast. When do you think that was going to be when the bridegroom is taken away from them they will fast in those days. When was that? Christ gets crucified.

They're gonna fast in those days when they're running from the from the law as it were and the Pharisees they'll fast in those days. Taken away snatched away just like Isaiah 53 8 by oppression and judgment.

He was taken away. Jesus knew what was around the bend for him. I Have trials and circumstances. The Christian life should be a life of joy, shouldn't it? It should be a life of joy everything about Christ's life oozes joy.

One preacher said if you have no joy in your religion. There's a leak in your Christianity somewhere. Everything in my life pretty much is falling apart that we own. It's the boat. That was broken. We got that fixed the riding lawnmower that was broken.

It got fixed. The van was broken and that's got fixed. My nose is broken and I still can't breathe out of it very well. Hopefully that was fixed. What else is broken. The computer is broken and that is close to be fixed.

The the inner tube that you take behind the boat. That had a leak in it and that had to be fixed. I mean just goes on and on and on. You asked me why I don't believe in evolution because the second law of thermodynamics is.

Everything goes downhill. There's a leak in your Christianity somewhere if you're not joyful. Nietzsche the German philosopher said I would believe in their salvation if they looked a little more like people who have been saved.

Now I was part of it too today, but this morning our first song that we sang praise him praise him. Sounded like a bunch of ducks that were getting strangled. I mean it was bad. Praise him praise him.

Jesus our blessed Redeemer. Yeah, you know you hit the person to the side of you praise him and you just. I'm just thinking this is like the drone. Here, it's a funeral procession or something. Couldn't believe it.

I listen to my own voice and thought it's probably they're all following my lead. I don't have to go to hell. I don't have to pay for my sins. Jesus is my Savior. He's my Lord and it's just this joyless life.

Reminds me the psalmist in Psalm 16. He says in your presence. There is fullness of what joy Jesus says these disciples of mine aren't going to fast. Yes, if there's an Old Testament command to fast for the Day of Atonement, that's fine.

But above and beyond they don't want to fast and they don't need to fast because I'm here. Why do you think there's no New Testament command for a Christian to fast? Why? The closest thing you can get to is Acts chapter 13 where the Elders needed to be chosen for a church and so they fasted.

But it doesn't say you have to do it. I don't think we should ever have to fast. There's not a command to fast until there's a time of sorrow. Somebody says well, there's a Family crisis or financial crisis or health crisis and you don't feel like eating and you want to fast great.

But I'm telling you could let's put it this way could we kick somebody out of the church for not fasting unrepentant fat and non fasting. No, there's no New Testament command to fast. Why. Because we have Christ he's not dead.

He's risen and I got convicted this week because everything about Christ oozes joy at his birth. The same regions that some shepherds staying out in the fields keeping watch over their flock by night an angel Lord suddenly stood before them.

Glory of the Lord shone around them and they were terribly frightened and the angel said to them do not be afraid behold I bring you good news of a great joy. Which shall be for all people? How about regarding Christ's Word.

John 15 these things. I have spoken to you that my joy May be in you and that your joy. He said to his audience may be full His ascension. Luke 24 he led them out as far as Bethany. He lifted up his hands and blessed them and it came about that while he was blessing them.

He parted from them and they returned to Jerusalem with great what? joy. Remember that song. They all know we are Christians by our love. We could probably put in there. They will know we are Christians by our joy.

Because only we as Christians can have joy. When the world's upside down you say well, I'm in a big trial. I don't know if I can have joy first. Peter 1 8 and though you have not seen him. You love him and though you do not see him now, but believe in him you greatly rejoice with joy.

Inexpressible and full of glory that's right by a passage of trials. Grandma Evie if she's rid. He's written it if she's read it once she's read it. What 500 times every time we go back to her house? She's got a little book out next to her Bible and she it says make it your choice to rejoice.

That's her favorite book. And can you imagine in the Christian life joy is a fruit of the Spirit, but joy is also command. Remember we saw that this morning. 1st Thessalonians chapter 5. Rejoice always.

You know it just doesn't make sense to sing that song. I've got the joy joy joy joy down in my heart where we just that look. All right. Let's get back to the passage here and get to the parable. You came here for a parable series.

Here's the parable. It's a short one. Back to Luke chapter 5 verse 36. He first gives the analogy of marriage and now he gives the parable by the way. What's a parable just in general anybody out loud?

Sunday school definition story that makes a point. Earthly story with the heavenly meaning. Excellent. Here comes the first one verse 36 called the first thing. The early one may be marriage. This could be mending if you want if you want to have them all M's.

And he was also telling them a parable. Remember the context what was going on with the fasting trying to say Jesus? I know you're coming here preaching your gospel, but we've we've got to add this other stuff that we we do.

What the Pharisees do? No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. What will happen. Don't read anymore. What will happen. How many people knit? You knit. Carl knits. My name is Carl arson, and I knit right on.

Okay, and so tell me a little bit about this. Would you would you get some old fabric? That's like 30 years old and then knit something new to it. Why wouldn't you do that? It'll rip even more and what is destroyed one or the other are both.

Both. I remember my grandmother used to darn my socks. You know it's kind of like the you know lots of Christians and even myself as a parent. I don't like my kids to say you know darn. Because that's kind of slang for another word, and I don't like him to say.

Oh my gosh. You know it was the old phrase. Heck is a place for people who don't believe in gosh or something like that. I Don't like that. I don't like the gosh and everything else is just slang for the other stuff, so where am I?

He says right here in the passage otherwise He will tear both see both if you add Grace as Jesus is coming to preach it and the traditions of the Pharisees. Not the Pharisees are not rest. Representing the Old Testament because there's even grace in the Old Testament.

But there are man-made traditions with Jesus's grace that he's preaching. He will both tear the new and the peace from the new will not match the old. Jesus says it's not addition my mice my Religion if you want to use that term.

I know we say no it's a relationship. But what he's preaching is not in addition. It's instead of. And that word tear there means rendereth we get the Greek schizosophism. It's not going to do you can't add it.

It's instead of listen what Ellison said so rotten was the spiritual fabric of the nation that the attempted patch of John was pulling apart. Leaving an even even greater rift with the Prophet sealed up in prison his grand patch job appeared to be coming apart at the seam.

John the Baptist comes and preaches repentance and says you want to abandon your Judaistic system. I'll go ahead and say that's fine. You're gonna be baptized not for salvation, but to say you renounce your old ways.

That patch job didn't work that well. Jesus said you're gonna ruin both. You take grace and traditions and laws and works both are ruined. Then he gives another one. This is the third illustration. But the second parable verse 37 and no one puts new wine into old wine skins.

How did they carry things around back in those days? Two liter bottles. What kinds of skins good? Okay, good, and the neck of the skin to pour happened to be what the neck of the animal. Good. Otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and look see both are ruined.

It will be spin to spill out and the skins will be ruined. Now dr. Block was very insightful when he was here. And he was trying to make the point that it's not the Old Testament is law and works and the New Testament is grace.

Matter of fact both systems have an operation of grace. There was a mosaic law. That's for sure, but it's not. For the law John 1 17 was given through Moses, but grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

It was for the law was given through Moses grace and truth were realized through Christ Jesus. Jesus is not saying here. The Jewish Old Testament system is wrong, and I'm here to patch it up. He was not saying the Jewish Old Testament system.

I'm going to replace. No. Jesus came to fulfill the Jewish Old Testament and he says to the Pharisees what you've done adding tradition and everything else you've Perverted the grace of the Old Testament and turned it into legalism.

I'm a and I'm here to destroy that Jesus isn't after the Old Testament. Not little not one little jot or tittle. Someone once counted them and said there could be six thousand jots and tittles in the Old Testament.

Not one jot or tittle would go unfulfilled so he's not. Saying there's anything wrong with the Old Testament, but he's saying your form of Judaism doesn't need reform. It needs to be obliterated verse 38, but new wine must be put into fresh wine skins.

You know all the fermentation process and everything else. I mean, it's just like taking. I Wish I had a better illustration, but taking a fork and popping it through an empty 2-liter bottle of Diet Pepsi or What would be a better way to do it.

I don't know but you shake those things up enough and drop them and you put a little crack in there the whole thing's gonna go. Verse 39 no one after drinking old wine wishes for new. He says the old's good enough.

In all these cases things don't mix things don't match. Fasting at a wedding. No. What's the second one? Here's old fabric and new fabric and here's now new wine that ferments and expands. And an old wine skin none of these things mix and Jesus answer when they ask him.

Why don't your disciples fast? He basically says I'm not going to answer your question. But what I will tell you what I'm preaching doesn't mix with what you're doing and here's the truth. So I said for the sermon title tonight is Christianity Jewish.

How would you answer that? In light of this passage and if I said to you as Christianity Jewish, what would you say? It's a fulfillment of Judaism. Okay good. What else? Everybody's looking down in their Bible.

Jesus Jewish Yes. Certainly stems from a Jewish Messiah. That's true. What about Judaism? How about this? It's Christianity. Does Christianity come from Judaism? Now I'm trying to play around a little bit.

I'm not talking about Old Testament Jewish. The Old Testament from a Jewish perspective. I'm talking about Judaism that comes along and says now you've got to do all these extra things. Maybe I could put it this way to explain it better.

Daryl Bach said This warns against syncretism between Christianity and any other religion. If syncretism were possible one would think that Judaism would be the best candidate. If Christianity cannot be mixed with Judaism its closest cousin.

Then certainly it cannot be mixed with anything else available in the world's cafeteria of religions to do so will destroy both. If you define Judaism as the Old Testament In the grace of law, I don't mean that I mean Judaism that the Pharisees represented and Judaism that's even preached today.

Now there's two thoughts that I want to talk about before we leave and they're both Politically incorrect so that should get your attention. First one is Messianic Judaism. How many people have heard of Messianic Judaism?

Does anybody? Can anybody give me a definition? It's very popular today. I'm not impinging or impugning anyone's motives that it's somehow bad people. But what is your take on Messianic Judaism? You've got reformed Jews and Orthodox Jews and conservative Jews and now you have fulfilled Jews Messianic Jews.

Lewis. Okay, and so certainly if somebody's in our congregation and they're Jewish and they want to celebrate a Passover or something Traditional or cultural you're not saying that's wrong. Are you? No, that's certainly fine.

But how about Jewish traditions mixed in with Christianity? What would you say about that? Okay, good. What would you think Lewis about and I'm not just putting you on the spot. But keeping kosher laws lighting candles on the Sabbath wearing Jewish yarmulkes.

Reading from the complete Jewish Bible. Requiring some of the Gentiles to be circumcised before they can be members. Okay, I think that's good. Would you go in light of that? Would you turn your Bibles to?

Galatians for a moment and I want to show you what Paul thought about his Judaism. That was. I Think that it can make it make my point here I think and I don't. I'm not saying everyone because I haven't met every Jewish rabbi and every Messianic synagogue.

But I'm scared about Messianic Judaism, and I don't like it and I don't purport to. And I don't and I don't Support it look at Galatians chapter 1 verse 13 and following. It's just something about that and we'll look at one other passage in Ephesians chapter 2.

But I think we're starting to add the old Cloth to the new cloth and I think there's trouble. I Think that it's very showy and there's very there's a lot of things that are appealing, but I. And there's a good new book about it, but I just think it's basically church growth within Jewish context but look at Galatians chapter 1 verse 13 and see how Paul referred to his Jewishness as something that was Pre salvation something that was in the past for you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism.

How I used to persecute the Church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. I was advancing in what? Judaism. Beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen being more extremely zealous from my ancestral tradition but when he Who had set me apart?

Even from my mother's womb and called me through his grace was pleased to reveal his son and me that I might preach among The Gentiles. I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood and we could go on but did you notice how he starts talking about it?

As past he says that Judaism used to be part of me. He's not saying I'm some kind of fulfilled Jew furthermore. The church is not made out of Christianized Jews are Christianized Gentiles. We're all considered what in Ephesians chapter 2 1 and what are we called?

Saints the church the body. Keep going. We haven't hit it yet. Sorry the bride good Children of God excellent so far. You're all right. Except what does Ephesians 2 say? Do sit on this side Gentile sit on that side.

Okay, let's find out see you ask enough questions and you say well I got to go find out Ephesians chapter 2 for the past 2 ,000 years we have Judaism that is Systematically rejected the deity of Christ and now we're going to call ourself Messianic Jews.

If you're Jewish and you're Messianic, that's fine. But I think you need to call yourself something else and I'm going to try to use Ephesians 2 to prove it. I'm not going to use it like out of context, but I'll just show you Ephesians 2 14 for he himself.

You ever see the he himself part that's very emphatic is our peace who made both groups into one. Which groups? Jews and goyim Gentiles and Broke down the barrier of the dividing wall. What was that? Think about the Old Testament temple area.

Was there dividing walls around? Can't go here. Can't go there. Matter of fact, there was a bunch of them. I found there was the court of the priests court of Israel court of women. They were all in the same level but five steps down.

There was a five stone five foot stone barricade that surrounded the temple another 14 steps that descended down to the court of the Gentiles. And did you know they found about a hundred years ago? What was on a plaque at that temple?

And here's what it says. No foreigner may enter within the barricade which surrounds the sanctuary and enclosure. Anyone who is caught doing so will have himself to blame for his ensuing death. Josephus talks about it now, too.

If you are a Gentile and you want to go over here past that but wall of dividing wall in that barrier. You're going to get killed. Well, what does he go on to say? This is interesting. I like to call that by the way I've been to checkpoint Charlie in Berlin years ago when the wall was still up and You know.

They go to checkpoint Charlie and they they had all the mirrors there and everything before you went into East Berlin to see if anybody was hiding underneath the the buses and everything and and Just go around Eastern Berlin and come back and you see people where they Places where people tried to crawl over the wall and they would get shot.

Anyway, I called that barrier wall not checkpoint Charlie now after that big intro. It's not even gonna be funny. I call it checkpoint eat suck. So you can only be a Jew to go there. You're gonna die.

He broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, this is Christ. That wall didn't get destroyed till 70 ad but spiritually that wall was done. No more Jew and Gentile by abolishing in his flesh by his death the enmity.

What is the enmity? What was the enemy that kept the two apart? How could you distinguish between a Jew and a Gentile back in Bible days? Okay circumcised, well how what else good what the law give me some ideas.