“I believe women!  I believe the victim!”
“Affirmative consent… Rape shield laws…”

"My feelings are hurt!"

No, let’s remember the basis of the Courts: The Law of Moses.

Titus 2:3
   The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers

Typically, when the Bible refers to ‘The Law’, it refers to Mosaic Law, a set of laws (613 rules, such as the 10 Commandments, court laws, financial laws, etc.) given to Israel, outlined in the Bible’s first five books (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy).

And, The Law is flawless.
Psalm 19:7
   The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul

Christ upholds The Law:
Matthew 5:17-18
   Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
   For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Luke 16:17
   And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

Why don’t we follow this perfect Law in our everyday lives?
Because we can’t.  By committing even one sin, we fall short of The Law’s perfection and fall under The Law’s condemnation.

James 2:10
   For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Romans 3:10,23
   There is none righteous, no, not one…
   For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

In fact, even our good deeds are a shadow of perfection.

Isaiah 64:6
   …all our righteous acts are as filthy rags;

The only ‘fault’ with The Law is us.

Hebrews 8:7-8
   For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
   For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah

How can we possibly be righteous in God’s eyes?
Faith is counted as righteousness.

Romans 4:3        
   Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

Hebrews 10:38
   Now the just shall live by faith

Christ knew Peter would sin by denying him three times.  But Christ prayed that Peter’s faith would not fail.

Luke 22:32
   I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not

If you don’t have faith, you can get it by reading and hearing your Bible.

Romans 10:17
   So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Near the end of his life, the Apostle Paul knew he had won the fight, as he had kept his faith.

2 Timothy 4:7-8
   I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
   Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness

In fact, The Law cursed us, as we tried (and failed) to be made righteous according to the rules of The Law.

Galatians 3:10-11
   For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
   But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

Nehemiah 10:29
   They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;

What is The Law’s verdict regarding our failure to meet its perfect standards?

Execution.

Leviticus 24:16
   And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death

Exodus 31:15
   whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 20:9
   For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death

The good news is the execution took place 2,000 years ago.
By having faith in Christ, who was executed on our behalf, we are not under The Law, but under Grace.

Galatians 3:13
   Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree

Romans 7:4
   …ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

John 1:17
   For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Okay, we are to have faith through Christ… But what else do we do with our lives?
Do we observer the Jewish holidays, ten commandments, burn incense, destroy idols, what?
For that discussion, click here.

So, why do we have The Law?  We could never live up to its perfection.  Only Christ did.

Reasons for The Law:
1) God needed a people with righteous practices who could raise his Saviour Christ from childhood.  Sinless Christ couldn’t be in a community worshipping false gods.

Exodus 20:3
   Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Psalm 81:9
   There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

2) The Law keeps a Jewish people (which has been scattered around the world) together culturally, before their return to Israel.

Deuteronomy 4:27
   And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

Jeremiah 31:10
   He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

Isaiah 11:12
   …assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

3) The Law lets us recognize our sinful nature, and that we need forgiveness and grace from God.

Romans 7:7
   I had not known sin, but by the law

Romans 3:20
   …for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

4) The Law is an endless source of contemplation for those of God.

Psalm 1:2
   But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Psalm 119:97
   O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

5) The Law forms a basis for the law of Courts.  For example:

Not to kill the accused murderer before trial by peers
(Innocent until proven guilty):
Numbers 35:12
   that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

Appoint Judges and Officers:
Deuteronomy 16:18
   Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

Justice is blind (impartial):
Deuteronomy 16:19
   Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Importance of more than one witness:
Deuteronomy 19:15
   One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

Punishment for false witnesses:
Deuteronomy 19:16,19
   If a false witness rise up against any man to testify…
   Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.

Anybody who knows evidence must testify in court:
Leviticus 5:1
   And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

What does God think about our feelings – testimony from the heart?

Jeremiah 17:9
   The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Proverbs 28:26
   He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

Proverbs 12:15
   The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

Proverbs 14:12
   There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Matthew 15:19
   For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies

Isaiah 3:12
   ...women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

As our female led society prioritizes effeminate feelings and subjectivity in Court, give a thought to the search for truth and objectivity in Courts of Law in formerly Judeo-Christian nations – a search brought by perfection: The Law.

Part 2:

The Law is good if used properly.
1 Timothy 1:8
   But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

Romans 7:12
   Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Laws regarding stealing and compensation:
Exodus 22:1
   If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

Getting rid of infected clothing:
Leviticus 13:51-52
   And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
   He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.

Property rights:
Deuteronomy 19:14
   Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Proverbs 31:16
   She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

But so many became greedy (but within the law), and bought up real estate, lobbied governments to not build high rising buildings (to lower the real estate supply), and exponentially raised the rents charged to tenants.
The Law is good, but The Law is also death.
1 Corinthians 15:55-56
   O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
   The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

The Law rightfully puts us to death for our sin.
Leviticus 20:2
   Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

The Law energizes our accusatory nature.
Luke 6:7
   And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.

Mosaic Law or any law causes us to check, slow, and alter our activity, clinging to the external, self-censoring, and not acting as our true selves and cultivating our true self.
Romans 3:19
   Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Ezra 7:26
   And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

We might be concerned that we are deceptive by not completely answering people regarding ‘what we did on the weekend.’  With guilt, we might check our self-expressions by algorithmically adhering to The Law and making sure we robotically say all of our weekend activities.
Leviticus 19:11
   …neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

A common instantiation of legalism (the notion that adhering to a law, even Mosaic Law, will endear us to God) is covering up women with modest clothing.
But, with this everyday use of Law, we can see how Law brings death and the Devil’s world.
Deuteronomy 5:21
   Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.

We are not to desire/covet another man’s property, such as his wife.
She might have an attractive outfit on, perhaps a short skirt.
A man might look at her and desire/covet her, as he sees her beauty.
With Law, a reasonable solution is to lengthen that skirt or have looser clothing like a burka that covers and hides the attractive female curves.  Logical, reasonable, sensible.

But why stop there?  The neighbour also has a nice looking flowerbed.  We might covet that.  So, cover it up.
And that house that the neighbour has also looks good.  If we can’t cover it up, we should get rid of it.
What about that shiny car with performance tires?  That needs to be covered up, or gotten rid of.
In our zeal for Law, the end result is desolation and death.
Jeremiah 9:10-11
   For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
   And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

With Law, no more fun.  The party is over.
Isaiah 24:7-12
   The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
   The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
   They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
   The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
   There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
   In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

When you’re dead, you’re no longer breaking any law.
Jeremiah 8:2
   And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

In a word, how can we describe the new world, the new morality, ushered in by Satan?

Law.

Those who have been taken from Africa and are victims of slavery lawfully deserve compensation.  It’s the right thing to do.  And, if the victims are dead, then their descendants deserve compensation.
But what about those of European descent who had ancestors who were slaves?  And should Germany compensate Poland for the World War Two invasion?  Should the USA compensate Japan for the atomic bombing?  (Don’t worry, the machine’s computers are calculating.)

Just like your income tax forms getting more and more complex for more moral redistribution of wealth, the new morality will have many rules and laws to keep order and righteousness.
In the Devil’s new world, you will be tracked, medically evaluated, timed, tested – all for your good.
Your children will pass their exams; you will keep in your car lane, bike lane, or pedestrian sidewalk.  Your productivity at the workplace will improve according to good, righteous, lawful metrics.  Your appointed income will meet your needs and keep you from frivolous excess. 

Timewasting will not be tolerated, as we have international goals such as planetary exploration.  Pleasure time has been calculated and will be allocated to you to maximize your happiness.
Violators of law will be imprisoned.  (But what about those who were from fatherless homes, in poor circumstances, and got caught up in the system?  Do they deserve a lesser prison sentence?  Or aren’t we all equal under the law?  Hmmm….  The machine is calculating.)

With the algorithms of law, we become more and more robotic, more machine than man.  And we will have to merge with the machine.

Matthew 23:33
   Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

How can we escape this hell?
We have Law – but we have a broken heart for a broken Law.
Luke 18:9-14
   And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
   Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
   The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
   I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
   And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
   I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Only by adopting the humble, servant-like nature of Christ can we be adopted into the family of Christ.
Mark 3:31-35
   There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.
   And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
   And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?
   And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
   For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

Matthew 18:21-22
   Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
   Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

Only by looking at the cross and getting closer and closer in our quest, can we have Christ’s nature in us.
Then, we can be the people who will not ruin the party with Law.
With your Christ-like maturity, the art that is you doesn’t process any law like a machine, but brings it to life in you, as we are to be living epistles of God, for the ultimate party.
John 1:14-17
   And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
   John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
   And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
   For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

John 21:25
   And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

We intake (eat) of our daily bread.
Luke 11:3
   Give us day by day our daily bread.

John 6:51
   I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

We intake of the Word made flesh, Jesus, including communion.
Jeremiah 15:16
   Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

Jeremiah 31:33-34
   But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
   And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Jesus came not to condemn us, but to save us.  The Word (including The Law) condemns us, puts us to execution for our sin.  When we move closer and closer to Christ in our quest, we move from the Word (including The Law) just being words on the page to being living human examples of the Word made flesh (Christ revealed in us), so that we can fit into a harmonious, permanent world.
John 3:17
   For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

John 12:47-48
   And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
   He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

Now, we can be trusted with true riches at the party.
Luke 16:11-12
   If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
   And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?

True freedom – including from The Law and all law.
Romans 8:2-4
   For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
   For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
   That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Romans 7:6
   But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

With a broken heart for a broken Law, we can have a properly unlimited party – looking at beauty of hot women – and she can even remove the skirt.
Esther 1:3-11
   In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
   When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.
   And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;
   Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
   And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.
   And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.
   Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
   On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
   To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.

Part 3:

What will our world look like when we merge with the machine?

1 Thessalonians 5:1-3
   But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
   For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
   For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

You’ll be a good person and you’ll be with good people.  And all will be staying safe.  (Any protests will be peaceful.)
Unlike the bad people over there – we will be good.  We follow the latest recycling protocols.  We will follow the rules from our church denomination.  We actively reduce our carbon footprint.   And, we prioritise social justice – wealth redistribution – righting historical wrongs.
Fellowship will be defined by those who are properly ordering society and those who are causing problems.  If you rebel against societal progress with skepticism and demands to be an individual with freedom – your chaotic thinking could ruin law and order for everyone.  Rightfully, from the world’s view, you will be ostracized.

Mosaic Law (or a lot of other law) is great, as long as it used properly.
1 Timothy 1:8
   But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

Nehemiah 9:13-14
   Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
   And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant

But Mosaic Law or any law can be used to be of our evil nature, that of the Devil, the accuser.
Luke 11:54
   Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

Mark 3:2
   And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.

So many times in life, we see the scoundrelous prosecutor use legal loopholes to put an innocent man behind bars.
So many times in life, the nimble, resourceful accountant is able to ensure that the ultra-rich do not have to pay any taxes.
We all know that rules create a new arena in which the wicked can run rampant.  The likes of Bill Gates create a new world in which he donates the most and receives the most.  We can blame the machines as Bill Gates’ philanthropy benefits his own regime.

Perhaps you grew up wanting to be a successful day-trader (who buys low and sells high at the right time).
Perhaps you always wanted to be a real estate mogul who can pick the right location to direct funds, and sells just when the smart money leaves that area.
Perhaps you always wanted to be a plumber who could sell the world to your housing clients, charging a Rolls-Royce price, but only delivering Chrysler quality.
But that was the price that the market could bear!  Yes, you sold your product at the current, fair and measured amount.
Leviticus 19:35-36
   Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
   Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Proverbs 11:1
   A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

Yes, throughout your life, you worked hard, you delivered your quality service and product on time – sold at a fair price.  You paid your taxes.  You donated to charity.  You kissed your kids goodnight.  You’re a good person.
But you’re bound for hell.
What happened?  You merged with the machine.

How did you merge with the machine?  All of the above is optimized by merging with the machine.  By becoming more and more logical, algorithmic – whether it be clever legal arguments, or buying and selling at the right moment, or producing your widget aimed at the right demographic, or simply helping the right family with your housing supply marketing advert – you would always be more successful – more you than you (more ‘human’ than ‘human’) – if you aligned with the endless logic of the machine.
Just like a computer aiding you in Texas Hold’em Poker – by merging with the machine, you can win the day in a world of rules, morals, principles, guidance.  You can incorporate that which is written on a page and beat your similarly logical opponents.

The Bible is, well – words on the page.  And we can logically follow what the Bible tells us to do.
Isaiah 29:13
   Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men

If we were to follow the Bible in a machine-like logical manner, we are falling short of the mark, the definition of sin.
Romans 3:23
   For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

The challenge is to bring the words on the page to a new level.
1 Thessalonians 1:5
   For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

1 Corinthians 4:20
   For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

The challenge is to bring the words on the page to a new human level.
Matthew 5:20-22
   For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
   Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
   But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

Matthew 5:27-28
   Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
   But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Luke 6:27-34
   But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
   Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
   And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.
   Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.
   And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
   For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
   And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.
   And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.

God had to send a person to consolidate that which was written.
Proper Christians bring that which is word on the page to a new level – not algorithmic winning – but living epistles.
When the Apostle Paul left Athens, he determined to know nothing but Christ (which was difficult for Paul who was a learned Pharisee).
1 Corinthians 2:1-2
   And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
   For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

When Paul arrived at this port city of Corinth, fornication abounded.
1 Corinthians 5:1
   It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

Previously Paul had been an accuser with The Law.
Under the New Covenant, Paul’s instantiation of The Law was on the hearts of men – living epistles of The Law.
2 Corinthians 3:2-6
   Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
   Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart.
   And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
   Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
   Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

As we move through life, we are to build ourselves up in faith – oriented towards Christ.
Jude 1:20-21
   But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
   Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Colossians 2:6-7
   As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
   Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

1 Thessalonians 5:11
   Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

We are constructing ourselves to be God’s building – Christ being the cornerstone.
1 Corinthians 3:9
   For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

Ephesians 2:20-22
   And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
   In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
   In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

But what do we use to build ourselves?  The Law.
Matthew 5:17-19
   Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
   For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
   Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Romans 3:31
   Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

But what is this Law?  The Law is a broken Law.
When Moses returned to his people with the tablets of the ten commandments, his people had already broke the first and second commandments by worshipping a false god.
In anger, Moses broke the tablets.
Deuteronomy 5:7-8
   Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
   Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth

Moses also ground the false god (calf) into powder, and made the people drink of it.
Exodus 32:19-20
   And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
   And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

Why would we drink this broken down material, this powder?
Because we were formed from dust – broken down material.
Genesis 2:7
   And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Dust is who we are.
Numbers 23:10
   Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel?

Sinners like us and the Devil eat dust.
Genesis 3:14
   And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life

But, unlike the Devil, we choose to be sheep or goats.  Thusly, a woman who either was sinful or not drank of the dust and endured the consequences – good or bad.
Numbers 5:16-22
   And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD:
   And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
   And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
   And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
   But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
   Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
   And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

Hopefully we go upward.
Ecclesiastes 3:20-21
   All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
   Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

With communion, we eat bits of the broken Law – the Word transgressed.
The Word made flesh for us (and broken for us):
1 Corinthians 11:24
   And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

And this is how we live – our lifestyle.
John 6:56-57
   He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
   As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

This Lord’s Supper, Communion – is a Passover.
Luke 22:15
   And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer

By intaking of the broken Law, we have a pass-over from The Law – rendering us not guilty from the sentence of death (a death sentence normally given by The Law).

When we build ourselves using The Law – a Law which is broken and ground up like the dust we are – we humbly orient ourselves towards Christ and prioritise love.
Romans 13:8-10
   Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
   For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
   Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Matthew 22:36-40
   Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
   Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
   This is the first and great commandment.
   And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
   On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Galatians 5:14
   For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Matthew 12:11-12
   And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
   How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

With a continuing acknowledgement and intake (communion with fellowship) of how we have fallen short by relying on our own efforts, we humbly are not accusers with The Law, but we meekly serve others.
Philippians 2:3-4
   Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
   Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

In the book of Philemon, Paul becomes a great example of how we build ourselves and each other up using the broken Law – oriented towards Christ and love.
In Philemon, Paul writes to the man Philemon.
Philemon 1:1
   Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer

Paul appeals for Onesimus, who was a slave owned by Philemon.
(Onesimus somehow in the past wronged Philemon.)
Philemon 1:10-11
   I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
   Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

Under The Law, which Paul knew well, Paul could have ensured that the Onesimus/Philemon dispute be resolved Lawfully.
If perhaps Onesimus owed Philemon money, or perhaps one wounded the other – this could be resolved under Mosaic Law.
Exodus 21:23-25
   And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
   Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
   Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Exodus 22:9
   For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.

But Paul, looking towards Christ, and prioritising love, utilizes The Law, a broken Law (with the fractured relationship between Onesimus and Philemon) and Paul acts not as a traditional Law-oriented Pharisee.
Paul wants to retain Onesimus himself, but Paul judges that Philemon should have Onesimus back.

Paul wants Philemon to receive his slave Onesimus, not as a slave, but as a brother.
Philemon 1:13-17
   Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
   But without your consent would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
   For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;
   Not now as a slave, but above a slave, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
   If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.

And, Paul, oriented towards Christ, puts himself in Christ’s position, that is, willing to give up everything for his fellow man.
Rather than The Law using an ‘eye for an eye’ to resolve the Onesimus/Philemon relationship, Paul takes printed word of The Law to a new, human level (through Christ-like self sacrifice) – a love that could never be understood by the efficiency of the machine.
Matthew 5:38-42
   Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
   But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
   And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
   And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him two.
   Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

Philemon 1:18-21
   If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;
   I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
   Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
   Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

Paul’s epistle to Philemon is his only epistle in which he did not explicitly mention the death and resurrection of Jesus.  Paul doesn’t need to mention it because Paul is acting it out.
Paul was not a machine inputting lines from The Law or lines from the Bible and algorithmically spitting out a return.  Paul was not an animal acting on instinct in response to Biblical lines.  Paul became truly human.  Paul became a living epistle with the broken Law on his heart – a man of love pursuing our ultimate example: Christ.
Matthew 11:29
   …learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

We are to build ourselves and each other.
Luke 6:47-48
   Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
   He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

Edify, that is, build.
Ephesians 4:16
   From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

In contrast, you might look at life and say, yes, we have some great building up of societies – but most of it is kind of crap.  Things are falling apart really.
Yes, we have the extremes of blessed abundance and triumphs of creation.  But we also have desolation, starvation, perversion, and endless pain.

Why?  So we can have true freedom.

We live in a world of freedom where all is possible – from glorious castles and celebration with fellow man in feasts – to stark poverty, war, torture, children’s eyes being eaten by insects.
With true liberty, we can freely navigate all without restrictions – a world of endless possibilities: positive, negative, all colours, all flavours.

We live in a world of collapse, invigoration, crying vagrants, poisoned rivers, elated victors, shell-shocked youth, mothballed ideas, etc., etc.
On one extreme, we have those paraplegic from birth, and on the other extreme, we have athletic, vibrant men of valour.

And we see both can see both worlds where 1) the sacrifice of the prophets and apostles held up societies, and 2) where the Devil triumphed to steal, kill and destroy (where no man of God intervened).
Revelation 18:19-20
   And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
   Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.

Similarly the extremes of justice and mercy:
Psalm 89:14
   Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

And the Apostle Paul could come with the rod of justice or in merciful love and meekness.
1 Corinthians 4:21
   What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

Why?  Because Paul had true freedom for anything: the extremes of mercy/justice, love/hate, slaughter/passover.
1 Corinthians 10:23
   All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

So when you learn of the starving people of North Korea, or human trafficking in Libya, or the vast prison system in the USA – and you contrast this with the jubilance of our freest celebrations – you, by seeing history – know that all extremes are possible.

Gloriously, you can now use bits of that broken Law to raise the starving people of North Korea upwards.  Just like the Apostle Paul who committed to giving up all to reconcile Onesimus to Philemon – you can be like those fasting and praying Christians who brought down the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain of the Soviet Union.
You can break the back of human trafficking and countries’ prison systems, if you are like Derek Prince, and you pray and fast to bring the turning point in World War II in the person of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.

But how do we resolve this:
Psalm 58:10
   The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

With this?
Matthew 5:7
   Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Extremes.

How do we resolve this:
Psalm 137:9
   Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

With this?
2 Samuel 22:26
   With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.

Extremes.

That’s your job.  With your God given true freedom via the extremes of life – it’s your job to build yourself and society with the broken bits of the perfect Law.
John 5:30
   I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

1 Corinthians 2:15-16
   But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
   For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Colossians 3:16
   Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

With the ups and downs of life – and all extremes, God’s people can understand and bring to this world the proper and true lovingkindness of the Lord.
Psalm 107:39-43
   Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
   He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
   Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
   The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
   Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.