All The Jots and Tittles
It's all right here, says Jesus. Everything about the law that you need to know is contained in this short bit of teaching. When he said that not one bit of the Law (the Torah) would pass away, this is what he meant:

Mark 12:29-31: "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

Ah yes. Let's not be so simple, is our response. Jesus can't have meant it to be that simple. Look, why would God give all those 613 commandments in the Torah if He didn't mean for us to follow them all?

And that's usually the Christian response. We people of grace and forgiveness and sermon after sermon about being saved by faith while we were still deeper in sin than Ted Haggard or any other preacher ever thought he'd be. We come up with all the rules and directions and legislation to enforce morality and fight for the public display of the Ten Commandments.

What about grace don't we understand?

Perhaps the concept of such incredibly forgiving love is beyond our ability. Perhaps we know that you and I can't possibly begin to live that way which may just keep us out of the kingdom. So God must not be able to do it either.

Which just isn't true. And God doesn't need our interpretations of what "love" means. We've already seen that by the very same one who said it above. What about Jesus' love do we fail to understand?

So, one more time, here it is in all it's power and glory:

• 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'
• 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

• There is no commandment greater than these."