{"id":8017,"date":"2019-06-15T21:40:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T01:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2019-06-15T21:42:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T01:42:03","slug":"the-goal-of-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8017","title":{"rendered":"The Goal of the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Myers-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Myers-4.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Myers-4-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Though many people assume that the primary message of the prophets was to call the people back to obedience of the law, the real message of the prophets was to call people back to the <em>goal&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;law,<\/em> which was love.  We see this by the fact that many of the prophets are quite critical of how the people ignore justice and righteousness in the land.  The prophets show that many of the people are quite observant when it comes to the law, but they neglect the greater goals of care for the poor, protection for the weak, and love for the outcast.  A quick reading of some key prophetic texts reveals that their true concern was not adherence to the law, but living according to love (cf. Isa 1:10-20; 61:8; Jer 14:12; Hos 6:6; Amos 4:4-5; 5:21-25; Mic 6:6-8).  Jesus, as the greatest prophet, reveals this same truth through His life, ministry, and teachings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; J. D. Myers, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/nothing_but_the_blood_of_jesus.html\">Nothing\u00c2\u00a0But\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0Blood\u00c2\u00a0of\u00c2\u00a0Jesus<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>p. 96-97<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, June 14, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though many people assume that the primary message of the prophets was to call the people back to obedience of the law, the real message of the prophets was to call people back to the goal&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;law, which was love. We see this by the fact that many of the prophets are quite critical of how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8020,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions\/8020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}