![]() But before we start in forcing the law of Moses again, let’s make sure we understand what Jesus meant. ![]() It’s an important question to answer, and very few Christians have taken the time to address it. So why don't Christians obey every letter of the Law if Jesus said it all applies “until heaven and earth pass away”? If you weren’t aware, the Law of Moses has some serious instructions. And we would have to throw out our clothes that mix linen and cotton and kill our rebellious children. We would need to go back to the Sabbath rest on Saturday. If “heaven and earth” haven't passed away, we would have a backlog of Jubilee years to celebrate, “cities of refuge” to resurrect (which is a law requiring certain cities to protect sinners from people trying to vengefully hurt them), and bleeding lambs to burn on an altar. If we were still waiting for some cataclysmic event to happen before we were set free from obedience to the Mosaic Law, what would that practically mean for Christians today? It would have huge implications. Surely that would mean all 613 commandments in the Pentateuch must be followed until some cataclysmic events take place. How can you not want to move your feet when you hear it?Can Christians excuse themselves from obeying the Law of Moses? Jesus plainly said, “Until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law” (Matthew 5:18). What's so deep is not some sort of physical measurement here, which would make no sense in relation to a male, but how deeply funk artistry has been able to penetrate down through the layers of civilization to renew that primitive rhythm of life, sex, and dance. It recalls that wonderfully bittersweet song from the musical HAIR "Frank Mills" where the persona bewails the absence of her (one night) lover: "If you see him, tell him. The plaintive "If you see him, please remind him." at the end pulls the focus back from the artist onto the "lady who waits" herself. The boyfriend represents not only this particular musician, but every funk artist, the music itself, drugs, and yes, sex. This refrain reflects the theme of the whole piece, the boyfriend is the genius coming and going, the girlfriend is static, delirious when he's around, lonely when he's not. I really love the way the normal rhythm of the phrase "gen-i-us of love" is completely distorted, making "genius" trisyllabic followed by the two beats "of love", creating an asymmetrical 3/2 metric as the flow of syllables come to an abrupt stop. The stacatto scratching of the name "Bohannan" and the other riffs thrown in make it an homage to the "evolution of funk", as someone briliiantly stated, in the same vein as "Groove is in the Heart" and presumably out of the same musical milieu. With references to the rough underbelly of a musician's life, the female voices are just so incredibly upbeat and delightful, emitting a giddiness at the level of Japanese high-school girl. ![]() Once it gets in your brain it will never leave, it will just set up a little home there and always be there to cheer you up. This song so rocks!! One of the reasons I love it so much is that it's more than catchy, it's infectious. Who needs to think when your feet just go With a hippie-the-hip and a hippie-the-hop Who needs to think when your feet just go? What you gonna do when you get out of jail?įeels like I'm dreaming, but I'm not sleepingĬlinton's musicians such as Bootsy Collins
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