#20 - The Forgotten Gospel: Law

Zootown Podcast

This week's episode is from The Forgotten Gospel, a teaching series by Pastor Scott Klaudt at Zootown Church. In this episode, Klaudt covers the theology behind The Law.
The Law needs to be understood in the context of the definition of sin, which was given in order to stop rivalry, blame, scapegoat, and violence. However the law actually only increased these things because it allowed humans to rank their behavior against each other and other nations. One of the main problems in understanding the law is that most people don’t see the break up of the Civil law, which helped Israel govern as a Nation, Ceremonial law, which is what the priests did in their religious requirements and the Moral Law which was given to all people everywhere and throughout time. The issue is it does seem they are all dependent on each other so this can be tricky unless you look to the New Testament where they broke down the laws to follow and especially Jesus “Love God Love People.”

The main point of the law was that it had to grow because they kept breaking it. They broke it because there was no love involved in keeping the law so law after law had to be added to try and close some loopholes but it never worked. God kept moving on to plan B knowing that eventually plan A would put in and to all of this….Jesus.