Ask Yourself....

I'm taking a course called Crossways. http://www.crossways.org/ It's a 2 year overview of the Bible. We just completed Exodus and Leviticus which deals quite a bit with the law-codes of the Jewish people. The law-codes are often misunderstood by people today. The law-codes can be categorized in 3 ways:

• The Ceremonial law which Jesus fulfilled.
• The Civil law which doesn't govern the children of God since Christ
• The Moral Law which is the 10 Commandments. The Moral Law appears in Jesus' teachings in expanded ways. The Moral Law is written in the hearts of men. Luther tells us that the Moral Law has 3 purposes -- to curb our sinful behavior, to act as mirror that shows us our sin, to guide our behavior.

There is a wonderful quote in the book that a person can ask themselves everytime they do something.

"If everyone were to do what I plan to do, or to live as I choose to live, what would happen to the human race? If the answer is that it would harm or destroy the human race, no person has a right to perform that action or pursue that lifestyle."

A Chinese proverb states, "When a butterfly flaps its wings in China, it affects the weather patterns around the planet."