This is Amy Hall and Greg Kogel and welcome to the hashtag SDRask podcast.

Now, Greg.

Now, Amy.

We've got some questions about, well, I'll just get going.

I thought you're going to chastise me because I did something bad. No. You would have said,

now Gregory, like my mom. Okay, what do we got? All right. This first question comes from David Crockett.

Was Jesus imperatives? David Crockett? As in Davy? I guess so. David Crockett. Was Jesus imperatives... David Crockett? As in Davy? I guess so.

David Crockett.

Was Jesus imperatives in the Gospels only to be followed by the Jews and not for the present-day body of Christ?

Well, that kind of depends.

Because Jesus was living in an Old Testament economy and therefore he was faithful to the

details of that economy until the economy changed. And maybe one exception would have been the

kush root, which is the dietary laws, where he declares all laws clean.

And where on the one hand, you see in the sermon and the Mount, him clarifying the details of, say, some of the moral law, making it more extreme than what it appeared to many people.

It's not just what you do, but how you think about things and what you say to people that is involved in the moral equation.

But here he's talking about here's a law that really has nothing to do with anything deeply moral, dietary laws, because it's what comes out of a man that defiles him, not

what goes into him. So that's in a category by itself. Generally speaking, though, even

up to the end of his ministry, Jesus was telling the Jews to keep the law. In fact, you

can find it in Matthew 25, I think it's Matthew 25.

I'll just go there very quickly here. Matthew 25 where Jesus is speaking to the multitudes.

Now, this is after the Olivet discourse, after the sermon on the Mount, I'm sorry, after the sermon where he talks about his second coming.

But at Matthew 25, he's upbraiding the Jewish leadership.

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