City Church Houston

In bringing us the Ten Commandments, God is not just bringing the law but bringing himself. When we reimagine the law the way it was originally designed it is not enslaving, but liberating. We flourish when we function within our design. The law also functions as a mirror. It drives deeper than the external ethics. It drives deep to the heart of the matter. The law isn’t there to be a consultant or a burden. It was there to show us Christianity is impossible. It is coming at the end of ourselves that we see following the law will never get us out of slavery. Christ brings himself to us and rescues us out of slavery and then brings us the law to show us how to flourish in obedience. When this goes backwards, when the law comes first, it messes everything up. What we could never done, Jesus has done it in our place. In this way, we can rejoice in the law.