rigmarole ‘ri-gə-mə-rōl · n. 1: confused or meaningless talk 2: a complex and sometimes ritualistic procedure (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary)
Yes, it’s a real word, I didn’t make it up last night. Is the law just a bunch of rigmarole? It most certainly is complex, intricate, and detailed, but is it confused and meaningless? I’m not asking if it leaves you confused, but is the law itself confused in what it says?
Hebrews like the law at times can be easily dismissed as a bunch of rigmarole. Let’s just go through one of the gospels, Ezra, or Philippians instead right? What does the law have to do with us?
You ever play video games with your dad or friend and not tell them what any of the buttons on the controller do? Ever buy a new board game and not read any of the rules, just try to figure out how the game works as you go? Sure reading the rules and explaining the controls isn’t fun, but it does lead to fun. It may be dry reading at times, but understanding the law deeply and intricately leads to deep joy in knowing and communing with Christ.
So pull out the rule book, the law, and have fun seeing how Jesus is the fulfillment of it all.
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It has been wonderful to see how Hebrews ties-up all of those Old Testament “types” that we have been studying. It’s exciting to see Christ revealed in the old law.
I’d like to expand on your “game – instructions” analogy. I hate reading instructions. But you’re right, it always enhances the game experience, regardless of how complicated or complex the instructions seem. Sometimes, it even helps to go back and re-read them even when you think you have the game rules down. You often discover a rule that you misunderstood before, or some rule that previously seemed obscure, but having played the game now makes perfect sense.
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Or you can misinterpret the one giving you the right instructions (because they read the rules) wrong and accuse them of making up the rules as they (we) go along. Remember any tiles of three that add up to 30.
Bethany told me how to make these replies..blame her Josh.
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