Leviticus 18:6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.

So many times I hear my brothers and sisters in the Lord say “We are no longer under the law but under grace.” I agree but let me ask them and you this question; have you learned the lessons of the law in which God departed His desires for His people? These are still words of wisdom and direction that when married up with the truth of the gospel of grace gives a more complete understanding of God’s eternal plan. God was at work in the Old School just as He is in the New.

Do you see any connection between these instructions and the gospel of grace?

Think on this then, that God first speaks about the approach, the coming near, the attitude which He says do not do. The attitude in the approach was to expose weakness, to name a sinner’s sin. There are two New School lessons that immediately come to mind.

Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

John 15:10b ye shall abide in my love,

This is what not to do married with what to do. So much of the Old School was about what not to do without clear instruction about how to accomplish that end. The New School teaches us how to accomplish or complete the desires of our God towards His people.

Psalm 101:2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

Ephesians 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

The Old and the New are perfectly married in Christ Jesus.