Title: The Covenants, Grace and Law (Part 15) 

Subject: The Spirit of the Law
Summary: In this fifteenth installment of the Covenants, Grace and Law series, John Ritenbaugh asserts that things written in the Old Testament were written entirely for Christians. The operations of both the Old and New Covenants overlap. The differences focus on justification, access to God, and eternal life, but not doing away with the law (especially the Sabbath) which Protestant theologians would have us believe. Modern Christianity, like the mongrelized Samaritan religion, is a syncretized mixture of some biblical truth with unadulterated paganism. To worship God in spirit means to put heart and mind into applying God's law, with a circumcised heart (Philippians 3:3) realizing that the motivating principle behind every one of God's laws is the love of God shed abroad in our hearts through the power of God's Spirit. (Romans 5:1-5)

Keywords: Ancestry Assyrian Christmas Circumcision Communion External acts Flesh Foreskin of heart Foundation of world Gentile peoples God is spirit Going through motions History courses Human nature Human reason Immature kid Intermarriage Letter of law Lions Lord's Supper Love Manasseh Mongrel people Mount Gerizim Old Testament Parallels Samaritan/Modern Christianity Places of worship Predestinated Principle of circumcision Reverential awe Ritual Sabbath made for man Samaritan woman School analogy Spiritual circumcision Spiritual suicide Sunday keeping Syncretized religion Temple of the Lord Worship Worship in spirit and truth