Worship note [w3]:

     “Order” that rules, is not really order; it is the result of freedom put in tangible terms. The more tangible something is, the greater it is limited. The law then, on a superficial basis, has a notable limiting quality. If we primarily resort to “laws” only, we resort to the tangible. If we primarily resort to what is tangible, we sin, because the tangible apart from pure mystery is inadequate. “Rules” alone never bring about salvation. “Laws” alone will never bring about healing. We must resort to God. But who is God? Nobody really understands who He is. The fundamental prerequisite for becoming a Christian then, from the natural perspective, is “stupidity.”  Yet it is only by this “stupidity” or, resorting to the unknown, that anyone has any possibility to heal. Doctors, for example, prescribe medicine appearing to us as if they understand its substance and how it will heal us, but in reality they have no clue. Neither do any of us have a clue as to who God really is or how He works. In the unknown lies our salvation. This is why I prefer to dwell on unteachable things. You cannot really teach someone to be free, because freedom is indefinable - what I mean is there is no one definition for the concept of freedom; a thing of infinite meaning. Love is another unfathomable concept, it is immeasurable. If we cannot adequately define such concepts, and yet if we continue to dwell in them, we do well, because the faith upon which our salvation works is partly because of something intangible, the intangible being a type of wholesome mystery. If we feel that we have a kind of arrogant proof for God, then we rob Him of His simpler and more substantial evidence and glorious mystery. It is our faith that saves us. Or from the natural perspective, we rest our assurance through the way that is so “weak” that it is “foolishness.” Jesus, the Son of God and exalted Christ, is equal to God. From the natural perspective we can only conclude that Jesus’ doctrine is the doctrine of “fools,” and the entire gospel of Christ is based on “foolishness” because, for one thing, who ever heard of a virgin giving birth to the Savior of the world? He is believed to be born of a virgin and He is believed to be the mysterious savior of humankind with the role of reconciling them back to a mysterious God, who is understood to be His true Father. But as odd as it might seem, naturally speaking, we somehow must believe that it is our only real solution in life to resort such mystery. It was humans’ avoidance of such mystery and resorting to something that was strictly tangible and apart from God, that cause them to fall in the first place - the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

      There are many so-called “fruits.” Apart from God they are all excessively tangible. Food alone is excessively tangible and words alone are likewise. Jesus said, “man shall not live by bread alone...” (Matthew 4:4). “Rules” apart from a positive mystery are excessively tangible. They are powerless apart from freedom. “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Corinthians 3:17). Each law that is made is the slave to some freedom. Where freedom reigns, laws that are excessively tangible are gone. Freedom (that is from the Lord) is purely mysterious. Order does not control freedom. The freedom I am talking about rules order.