Watch this Show For the Holidays: The Chosen

Hi friends,

Happy holidays! Today, I wanted to share some insight I’ve gained from watching a TV show on Peacock, The Chosen, a historical drama based on the life of Jesus and his everyday interactions with the people who knew Him best.

I’m always leery of watching biblical dramas—often they aren’t biblically true—but this show has been different for me! I am rocked by how much Jesus, the first twelve disciples and others were humanized. Let’s dig in!

As someone who enjoys learning, one thing that I’ve come to love about Jesus is His style of teaching. It includes great analogies and parables to study and apply in my every day life.

Ultimately though, this show clarified why His arrival was imperative during that era.

In the centuries prior, #Hebrewculture and religion was based on the Law of Moses, whose precepts became a weapon within the nation of Israel to boast, condemn and persecute instead of remain within God’s intention to guide, inform, and establish fellowship with Him.

If you read the #OldTestament, you’ll learn about the history of Israel, leading all the way up to the prophecies of the Messiah. We see in the show how much the Israelites were looking forward to this coming, longing to be freed from the Law that kingdoms and society weaponized against one another other.

Some thought the Messiah would be a military leader, king, or judge that would defeat the kingdom of Rome, or any other major enemy of the Israelites.

But no one expected the prophecies to be fulfilled in the way that they did.

Matthew 5:17-18 NIV says,

“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. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.”

The image is a constant visual of the critical work Jesus did and is still doing today.

God’s commands are God’s commands; though you and I sin, therefore fall short of His Law, we don’t just do away with it because we aren’t able to fulfill it perfectly. Christ has fulfilled the Law for us, therefore we repent when we’ve fallen short and devote a way of living that’s outlined by God’s Law and strengthened through Christ’s teachings.

"Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." (John 1:16-17 NIV)

I hope this helps someone.

Thanks for reading❤️