Second, as Richard Averbeck notes, the LORD’S laws express God’s expectations: “The law continues to demonstrate God’s expectations, though Christians live under the new covenant and have a different relationship to the Mosaic law (cf. Acts 15).… Although Jesus fulfilled the sacrificial requirements for salvation, that does not make the ceremonial law inapplicable. On the contrary, the ceremonial worship law is especially suited for defining the expectations of the Christian faith.… The issue then
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