one is abolished, one is fulfilled... there is an immediate product that they share.... what is it?
one is abolished, one is fulfilled... there is an immediate product that they share.... what is it?
Some scholars say, "Where Israel failed, Jesus, the Israel of God, succeeded." The first son fails, the younger son is chosen. A very common Jewish theme. David instead of Eliab, Christ instead of Adam:one is abolished, one is fulfilled... there is an immediate product that they share.... what is it?
How did Jesus fulfill the Law? Does it necessarily remove the law, every jot, every tittle of it?Their immediate product? An ending.
To abolish the law would be to throw it out 'before' it is consummated.
To end it properly gives it an end with purpose.
Forgive me...
How did Jesus fulfill the Law? Does it necessarily remove the law, every jot, every tittle of it?
He did. As he said, it is finished.
For instance, the law would say no movement on a Sabbath.
Christ laid in the grave and fulfilled it.
Forgive me...
I don't have a view on this, so I'm really exploring.
Has heaven and earth passed away?
Matthew 5:18
"For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Their immediate product? An ending.
To abolish the law would be to throw it out 'before' it is consummated.
To end it properly gives it an end with purpose.
Forgive me...
Their immediate product? An ending.
To abolish the law would be to throw it out 'before' it is consummated.
To end it properly gives it an end with purpose.
Forgive me...
Yes.
The Law was a covenant, and it had a "final payment" to be made.
To "abolish" the covenant would be to abrogate it without making the final payment.
To fulfill the covenant would be to make the final payment.
How can we share in His work if it is "finished":"It is finished." ~ Jesus Christ on the cross.
If we read this in the original text, we see this as another one of those phrases that belongs to the 1st century and doesn't translate the way we might expect for modern ears.
Sort of like... "lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one."
We are actually asking to be led "away from temptation", but that's not what we hear in translation.
We are left with a beginning of a statement that ends a different way. Give it some thought as a literary device.
Forgive me...
How can we share in His work if it is "finished":
Colossians 1:24
24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions.
Philippians 3:7-11
7But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, 9and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, 10that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; 11in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
You know... in the East we never use that 'payment' analogy. When we speak of the gift, we say it was offered to the Father out of Christ's willing love. We speak of the abolishment of death in a way that shows cooperation and not conflict resolution. We see a love 'offering' of self. Something planned and hidden from the beginning in fore--knowledge.
Do you think that 'payment idea' sets up an idea of an angry Father?
Forgive me...
No. Why would it?
Remember that the concept of "covenant" is not limited to a God-man covenant. Men made covenants between each other all the time. Society was based on honest covenant making and faithful covenant keeping. Good friends made covenants and good covenants made good friends. When a covenant was successfully fulfilled, that laid a good foundation of faith for future covenants.
How can we share in His work if it is "finished":.
My pastor offered up a "thought" (Ummm...maybe it was more than that, an assertion, a prophecy? He was going ballistic in his Pentecostal blowout...).This is from HIS perspective, not ours. We have much to do.
Christ's resurrection marks the completion of all that "will be done" towards mans salvation. He announces that the eternal plan is completed. The rest is up to us.
God is giving us the rest of time to do so.
In simplicity? Raise up Christians!
Forgive me...