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(Exodus 24: 3-8). The terms of this covenant was more formally established with the formula I (God) am your God and you (Israel) are my people (Jer 31: 33). The Christian life too is a covenanted life lived in the blood of the covenant (Mt 26:28, Mk 14:24) of Jesus Christ yet the phenomenon of the members of the people of God making gods of their liking, the golden calves and dancing around them throughout their whole life is actual for us too. 4. The Exodus experience progresses through the desert experience. In the desert the people murmur against Moses, in reality against God himself but God feeds Israel with manna and quail (Ex 16:1-35) and water for drinking (Ex 17:1-7) all showing how much God cares for his people. The same symbols of food and drink in the sacrament of Eucharist and of water in Baptism are operative in the covenant of the people of God today. For leading the God human relationship, God makes use of human mediums and even the created beings. Hence, the importance of sacraments. If the human mediums lead the people to God, to Gods love the sacrament keep men in Gods love. 5. For Israel Moses was not only the liberator but also the law giver not in the sense of the author of the law as perhaps Manu in the Indian thought, but only the mediator of the law of which God himself is the author. The divine origin of the Jewish law was guaranteed by pre facing many of the provisions of the Jewish law by the phrase Nahum Yahweh meaning thus says the Lord. The bulk of the Jewish law is spread out in the first five books of the Old Testament, which together is known in Hebrew as Torah Law elements of which are found spread out in many of the OT books. The social commandments within the Ten Commandments (4-10) serves as the basic norm for every human being, hence inherent in the deepest level of human behaviour and thus become part of the natural law itself. For a Jew mans obligations towards God consists in fulfilling the ritualistic and purificatory laws. Our church too is governed by laws known as Canon Law. The legitimate laws, ecclesiastical as well as civil are Gods voice for his people and obeying them is following Gods will for his people. Jesus placed the essence of law in the inner attitude of love of God and of ones neighbour this is the radical revolution that Jesus brought about in the practice of religion.