Bryce Crawford

Here's the law, 613 laws, 10 commandments.

There you go.

This is the law.

That's one step closer because if you follow the law, you're walking in righteousness according to the Old Testament law, right?

Now, righteousness can be summed up in love God, love people, as Jesus says in the New Testament.

But here, the law.

And then actively on Mount Sinai, after he delivers the commandments, he goes, hey, one step further, I want to get closer to you.

I want you to build this Ark of the Covenant.

And I want to actually house my presence inside of this box.

So now he says, yes, my Holy Spirit rests on one particular prophet.

But I want to put my presence in this thing called the Ark of the Covenant.

You can take it from city to city.

There's a certain people group that has to carry it.

And when it comes to the tabernacle and things like that, there's only certain people that come over it.

But here's the thing.

I'm going to put my presence in a box.

God became a friend physically, in a physical body, so that you and I can know what it's like to experience relationship with him.

He walked among us.

He lived a sinless life.

He experienced suffering, all these things.