Think not that I have come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I have not come to destroy but to fulfill.
“When you really are no longer spiritually a minor, you will cease to need some of the outer observances that formally seemed indispensable; but your resulting life will be purer, truer, freer, and less selfish than it was before …” —Emmet Fox
As we live only with the awareness of ourselves as physical beings with a large brain capacity and a spirit stuck somewhere beneath our personality-based identity, we will operate under laws that govern this self-definition. We will continue to look at people like Jesus as great miracle workers given special dispensation and powers transcending those of even the above average human. We will view his statements to the contrary with passing curiosity: “Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father” (John 14:12).
You and I are spiritual beings inhabiting a physical body going through a material experience. Do the same laws that govern our physical bodies govern also our spiritual nature? Of course not. The limitations imposed on the body are unknown to the spirit. On which set of laws do we base our daily thought and action?
We are not here to break material laws but to awaken to our spiritual identity that fulfills these laws and allows us to live above their restrictive parameters.