The letter of the Law kills whereas the redemptive grace and mercy of Jesus Christ heals, cleanses and restores life. At the cross we are given the key.
Jesus is the Key of Knowledge.
Only through Him can we become children of the Living God, the Body of Christ.
Jesus charged the lawyers with doing the opposite of what they claimed their calling to be. Rather than bringing people nearer to God, they had removed the possibility of their entering into that knowledge, and had prevented others from understanding as well.
Luke 11:52 (NKJV)
52 “Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.”
Matthew 23:13 (NKJV)
13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
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