Our emulation of Jesus Christ is not in merely copying what he did, for this would be foolishness. For Jesus lived in the period of the old covenant, with all of its cleanliness laws, it's food laws and it's separation laws. Jesus lived as a faithful old covenant Jew. We, on the other hand, live in the new covenant. We are not forbidden pork, nor mixing our fabrics. We are permitted to eat dinner with gentiles. We are permitted to shave the sides of our heads, if we wish.
So what does it mean to emulate Jesus Christ? We are to do so by practicing his summation of the law, which is, to love God and to love neighbor. If we do this, we are fulfilling every aspect of the law, in total.
We should love those people in our circle of influence. We are to love where we live.
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