But if that's what it takes to praise You Jesus...

So...basically this is a freewrite...(well aren't all blogs freewrites)

But meaning to say, I don't really have that much to say about this topic. I am simply recording this down because mainly it is something like a 'click' a 'realization'...if you will...(hahahaha I sound like an intellectual)

It is like the same as when I realized that every person is selfish. I used to think like, "but how about some non-christians who do good?" and I came to the realization that non-christians aren't EVER doing anything "good." Most (all haha) of the time they are doing it for themselves, for their own glory. I have to question WHY they do those things, if not for God...then for themselves? If not for themselves...then for their friends...BUT why for their friends? because their friends make them happy...because their friends do something for THEM...so basically its for themselves...

Anyways that's not the point of this post...

I was really confused today with the laws of the Old Testament.
Basically there's three:

Judicial(Civil), Ceremonial, and Moral.

I am sorry that I don't have time to discuss this in further depth as to why they are fulfilled by Jesus and the extent of their fulfillment...

I was really confused because like we don't acknowledge civil and ceremonial laws because Jesus fully fulfilled them not because He abolished it, but because He fulfilled it. Get it?
We don't fill the cup anymore, why? not because Jesus destroyed it, but because he filled it already. Is that a good analogy? Please correct me if there is a better analogy. The basis that Jesus did not come to abolish but to fulfill is found in

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Matthew 5:17-20

Christ Came to Fulfill the Law

¹⁷"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. ¹⁸For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. ¹⁹ Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. ²⁰For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
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I think I got the analogy...

So pretend God wanted a drink and in order to go to heaven you need to give Him your drink. Now the cup symbolizes the law. We cannot keep the law, or we cannot fill the cup in order to obtain salvation because there are holes, caused by our sin. Every good deed we do just ends up leaking out, like instantly. Within one second it is empty again. So Jesus comes along and offers to fill the cup. When we accept, He doesn't destroy the cup saying, "God isn't thirsty anymore we don't need to give Him the drink anymore. We don't need the law anymore." Otherwise God is still thirsty. So instead, He fills the cup. He fills it so much to overflowing (grace abounds, my cup overfloweth Psalm 23:5) that the rate at which water exits the cup is so much less than the rate at which water enters the cup. Rate in > Rate out...dv/dt is now positive. Now you have a full cup that you can give to God. So when you go to God, He can drink and let you into heaven.
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But yea, to paraphrase, in other words? we don't keep the civil and ceremonial laws, but we keep moral laws. So I was confused what this means "we keep" such and such laws. What does this mean? Because we do not need to keep laws to obtain salvation.

We no longer have to obey civil and ceremonial laws yes? but then that means, we have to obey moral laws? Hold up..."we HAVE to obey moral laws?" "HAVE TO"

This is what was confusing for me because we don't have to obey moral laws either. Yes I know that doesn't sound right. But it's true isn't it? We are saved by faith and not by works. We don't have to obey...hmm it does sound weird. We don't have to obey God..what? So does that mean we can continue sinning? May it never be...

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Romans 6:1-4 (NIV)
¹What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? ²By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? ³Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
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Well anyways the main point of the post...
When we say we observe/acknowledge/keep the moral law. Matt put it as the analogy that these are the laws that we look at to become more like Christ.

We don't observe them for salvation but for sanctification

This whole post can be summed up with the last sentence...or the second to last. HAHA

Matt Chung's analogy:
Oh God loved me so much and Jesus loved me so much to die for my sins. I am so grateful. How do I become more like Christ? Moral laws okay!

This analogy makes sense, since we don't observe the civil and ceremonial laws to become more like Christ. Right? Except they do have some moral law behind them. We still observe moral law.
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It was just confusing because it seems like there are two ideas are on different planes. Different modes. Comparison of different fruit. It gets confusing. And to clarify things we should set up some definitions.

Speaking of definitions, what does it mean "to become more like Christ." I mean we don't want to become like God right, because that is the first sin. Trying to become like God. But trying to become more like Christ as in. To bear the fruits...

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Galatians 5:22-23 (NIV)

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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Wait what does the last part mean? "Against such things there is no law"
Ahhhh man...There is not law against such things?
Inputs? I'm just going to publish this now since I've postponed posting it too long XD