Where we are Today

Here's a key to where we are in Christianity. God in the Old Testament was the Almighty, to be feared, obeyed and revered. He still forgave sins and provided a way for His people to live in forgiveness through the sacrifices at the Temple. Many other laws regarding diet, hygiene and crime and punishment were designed to help people live in health and maintain order in society.

Jesus came to reconcile us to God as the Father, the One who created us in his Divine Love to take care of the Earth and live as His family. Jesus brought us into intimacy with Him, by offering Himself as the ultimate, perfect sacrifice for sin and the curse of the law. 

Through that sacrifice, we have access to God's own life, by believing in faith that Jesus is the Saviour. He then sends us the Holy Spirit, the same guide that He followed when he was on Earth, to comfort us and "lead us into all truth".

So we don't need, acting independently as individuals, to go off in our own strength and try to follow the old law any more, because the one who wrote it and knows how to practice it now lives WITHIN us. We just need to learn to rest in the gifts of peace and righteousness He has given us, and follow the promptings of His Spirit. That's living in New Testament Grace.