The beloved physician Luke wrote how Jesus said, “No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. And he said unto them, You are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presses into it”, and in chapter sixteen and verse seventeen of his book Luke wrote how Jesus told the Pharisees, “it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail” where we read:
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
The verse reads, “And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, ...” Luke began with the words, “and it is easier” or “and it is better for toil, more facile and with easy labor” “for heaven” which means “that the region above the sidereal heavens, the seat of order of things eternal and consummately perfect where God dwells and other heavenly beings” “and earth” or “and ground, country, territory and land enclosed with fixed boundaries” “to pass” which means “to perish and go away” than the following to occur. Luke shared how Jesus proclaimed it to be “more easy and facile” for “heaven and earth” to perish than his following statement to happen.
The verse goes on to say, “... than one tittle of the law to fail.” Luke continued with the words, “than one tittle” or “than for an apex, point, accent and diacritical point” “of the law” which means “belonging to the rule producing a state approved of God” “to fail” or “to be lost, fall from a state of righteousness or a state of prosperity”. Luke shared how Jesus said the “heaven and earth” would pass away before even an “accent mark” within the “law of God” is “lost or falls”.
When we think through Luke's words in this verse, we learn how the “law of God” is enduring and everlasting . “Heaven and earth” will be altered and changed someday, (“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away” (See Matthew 24:35; Mark 13:31 and Luke 21:33), but God's word lasts forever. God desires to have a personal relationship with every person through His Son Jesus, and those who are wise will understand His “law of salvation” to mankind is eternal, and they should yield their lives to Him. “Heaven and earth” shall certainly “pass away” some day, but the word of the Lord will exist throughout all eternity.
Next time Luke shares how Jesus told the Pharisees, “whosoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery” so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
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