So, how exactly did Jesus fulfill the law? Was it because Jesus kept the law perfectly? If the law is fulfilled by Jesus how do we now keep the law? By loving our neighbor? Discuss.
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GALATIANS.3: =
The Law Brings a Curse
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed
is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.” 11 But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God
is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.” 12 Yet the law is not of faith, but “the man who does them shall live by them.”
13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed
is everyone who hangs on a tree”), 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
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ROMANS.7: =
Law Cannot Save from Sin
13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that
it is good. 17 But now,
it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but
how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will
to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not
to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not
to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
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1JOHN.4: = 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son
to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
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The Law or Moses Law shows us to be born inherently sinful/evil/satanic and deserving to be sent to hell by God when we die - the consequence of Adam's Original Sin(ROMANS.5:12, LEV.17:11, HEB.9:22, MATT.5:27-30).
... As for the Jews, no amount of keeping the Law will save them from hell, ie not committing idolatry, murder, adultery, rape, stealing, lying/cheating, etc will not justify them for being saved from hell or salvation = hence, Law vs Grace(= justified by faith in Christ, and not by the keeping of the Law).
IOW, the Law could not save people from hell, only Christ could. That was how Jesus Christ fulfilled the Law, ie He fulfilled what the Law could not fulfill, by being the required sacrificial Lamb of God who was crucified on the Cross, in order to wash away our inborn and outborn sins and to clean and prepare us for the kingdom of heaven.
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P S - At most, the Law can only fulfill a good and long life on earth for good and law-abiding Jews or even Gentiles.(cf; MATT.19:23, ROM.2:10)