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Did Jesus End the Authority of the Law of God at His Death?

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  If you have been in any church for any period of time you will more than likely hear something along these lines: Jesus did away with the Law at the cross. Jesus nailed the Law to the cross. We aren't under the Law anymore after Christ's death. These are just a few of the ones that I have heard throughout my 30 years as a Christian. And I used to believe it.  I just took what was said, a presupposed idea that had been fed to me without searching out for myself.  I was guilty of not searching the scriptures to prove that what I was being taught lined up with what God himself said.  I was taking the traditions of thought that had been passed down from generation to generation without question. This is most definitely not the biblical method that God had in mind. Paul tells us how proud he was of the Bereans because they searched the scriptures daily to insure that what they were being taught lined up with what the God's word. What word was that that they were searchi...

How Did You Get Here?

 Sometimes we find ourselves on a journey that we question the "whys" of everything.   Why do I believe what I believe? Why was I taught what I was taught? Why have I never studied this out for myself? I found myself on this journey almost 2 years ago. I was in a place where I was digging into the scriptures more on my own with an intense desire to learn as much as I could.  It all began as I started to study out the feast days that are mentioned in the scriptures. I have always been fascinated with the feast days as I have seen them observed by the Jewish community. What they meant in the timeline of biblical prophecy. The interest in them had been peaked, and I wanted to see how scripture laid them out as how they were to be observed.  Little did I know the path that was going to place me on, one that I am still walking even today.  I started in Exodus and worked my way through the mentions, the outlines, the rules for the feasts. I got to Leviticus 23, t...