Dear Fellow Believers,

This broadcast kicks complete ass and takes no hostages. (Sorry, but it does.) The purpose of the Law of Moses is laid out so clearly that only someone truly locked up in stubbornness could come away from this still thinking that God wants us to do the Ten Commandments.

At around the 7:29 mark, I make a shocking prediction that has come true. I made this prediction on this show, which was recorded on July 13, 1999. And the prediction was that if lawmakers were successful in putting the Ten Commandments into schools, that there would be an outbreak of school shootings. I said, "Watch for it."

Being a solution-oriented guy, I then recommended posting Romans 8:1 in school buildings. Naturally, no one has taken my advice.

I'm sorry to keep talking about myself (not really), but I took this show hostage and never let go. I then compared our Lord pretending to "walk on" to the next town as He conversed with the two men on the road to Emmaus on the day of His resurrection—I compared this to God pretending to be a raging, implacable Deity with the Law of Moses, but that this was not His ultimate intention; He ultimately did it to prepare the way for grace. The analogy is so simple and clean (and devastating) that even Joel Osteen's dog can understand it—not Joel Osteen; just his dog.

Thanks again to Rodney Paris for making this broadcast available to a new generation of viewers and listeners. And thanks to all of YOU in the body of Christ who have supported this work for over thirty years. We are doing this together.

 Grace and peace from the peninsula,

 —Martin