I want to ask you to turn to two passages of scripture.

We'll begin in Matthew 5, and then we're going to go to Galatians 3.

We went to Galatians 3 last week, if you remember Galatians 3,

started out, O Texans and was written

directly to us so we're going to Matthew chapter five we're going to take a

passage from Jesus out of the sermon on the Mount. And we're in a series called

Amazing Grace and the title of this message might shock you a little bit, but the title of

this message is Amazing Law. Amazing Law. Now last week we talked about

our amazing new husband that we were married to the law, but now we're married to Jesus.

But I want to show you how amazing the law is and why God gave the law.

Why did he even give the law?

And if we've been released from the law,

as Roman 7 says, then how do we relate to the law?

And why did God give us the law?

So we're going to talk about this, but the law is amazing.

Now the law, according to Jewish tradition,

would be divided into two categories.

The moral laws of God and the ceremonial laws of God.

Gentiles then divide those two categories as well.

Under the ceremonial laws would be the ceremonial laws and then the dietary laws.

Ceremonial would include the feasts and the sacrifices and things like that and then the dietary, you know, the things that were clean or unclean to eat.

And then under the moral laws of God, Gentiles normally divide in two categories.

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