- Jesus Christ came to fulfill the law.
OK BFA we'll hypothetically say that Christ
fulfilling the law means he was removing the law. Let's see what that looks like in text..
Think not that I am come to
destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to
"remove it".
That sounds kind of bogus don't you think? Obviously the word "fulfill" used in Matthew 5:17 has the following definition,
Definition of FULFILL
transitive verb
1
archaic : to make full : fill <her subtle, warm, and golden breath
fulfills him with beatitude Alfred Tennyson>
2
a : to put into effect : execute
Go and read Matthew 28:36-40..
If we love God with all our heart, soul, and strength, will we take his name in vain? Will we continue to serve other gods?
If we love our neighbor as ourselves, shall we rob them? kill them? Shall I lay with my neighbor's wife?
- Not on jot or tittle of the law could have passed (i.e. passover, animal sacrifices) unless Jesus Christ has already fulfilled it.
Christ's death ended the sacrifices and ordinances, as type met antitype. Again, you are mistakenly mixing the ceremonial law with His Holy and Eternal Moral Law. The Ten Commandments could
not pass away, as Jesus said in Matthew 5:18
- The letters engraved on stones are a ministry of death when compared to the ministry of the Spirit which brings life.
The letters on stone written with the finger of God are our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. They show us our need of repentance and godly sorrow for sin.
- The new covenant is not like the old; it's built on new and better promises.
The new covenant removed the sacrificial system because as previously stated, type met anti type. The new covenant also amplified the moral law with new spiritual applications that magnify our understanding of the letter.
For example,
Matthew 5:27-28
27Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
- The law was added as a schoolmaster 430 years after Abraham and only until the Seed came.
Adam disobeyed God and came under the penalty of sin thousands of years before Abraham. The law has always existed. God wrote the law on stone for His people Israel, both the literal nation of Israel and the Spiritual Israel of today. All of us who worship God in Spirit and in
TRUTH.
- We are no longer under a schoolmaster.
The author of Galatians also wrote Romans.
Romans 6
1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7For he that is dead is freed from sin.
12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
- Hagar, the slave woman, represented the covenant that was from Sinai.
Correct, the old covenant. Not the Ten Commandments.
The Old Covenant --
Not the Ten Commandments Is this a biblical position? It is just as important to understand what the Old Covenant was not, as to know what it was. Right now, let us look at three absolute proofs that the covenant which disappeared was not the Ten Commandments. Then we will determine by comparing scripture with scripture just what the Old Covenant was.
First of all, we notice that the Old Covenant had some poor promises in it. The New Covenant, we are told, "was established upon better promises." Verse 6. Tell me, has anyone ever been able to point out any poor promises in the Ten Commandments? Never. On the contrary, Paul declares that they were very good. "Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth." Ephesians 6:1-3.
This declaration alone is sufficient to show that the writer of Hebrews was not charging the moral law with any weak promises. The Old Covenant, whatever else it might be, could never be the Ten Commandments.
The second thing wrong with the Old Covenant was that it was faulty. The Bible says, "For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second." Hebrews 8:7. Let me ask you a question: Has any man ever been able to find a fault or a flaw in the handwriting of God? The psalmist declared, "The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul." Psalm 19:7. Paul wrote, "Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good." Romans 7:12.
Does that sound like something weak and imperfect? No law could be perfect and faulty at the same time. It becomes more and more apparent that the Old Covenant could not have been the Ten Commandments.
Finally, though, we read the most dramatic thing about the Old Covenant - it was to be abolished! "In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." Hebrews 8:13. Now we can ask a serious question that should settle every doubt on this matter. Did the great moral law of Ten Commandments vanish away? Anyone who has read the New Testament must answer, Absolutely not. Paul affirms the exact opposite about the law. He asked, "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." Romans 3:31.
Does the Bible contradict itself? Can something vanish away and be established at the same time? Did the same writer say opposite things about the same law? Just to be certain that Paul was not saying that the Old Covenant was the law, let us insert the words "Old Covenant" instead of the word "law" into Romans 3:31. "Do we than make void the Old Covenant through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the Old Covenant."
That doesn't sound right at all, does it? We know that the Old Covenant had vanished away and could never be spoken of in this way. Very clearly, then, we can see that the covenant which came to an end could not have been the Ten Commandments.
You can read the entire book here
Why-the-Old-Covenant-Failed
- The command has already been given to get rid of the slave woman.
See Above.
- We have been released from the law that includes "thou shalt not covet," having died to that by which we were bound.
So that means we are free to sin? Or are we free
FROM sin?? Did Christ die so that his people could continue in the very sins he came to save them from??
Jude 1:24-25
24Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, 25To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Just sharing my point of view. I don't ask that you share it.
I can't share your point of view, it's not what the Bible teaches.
Be Blessed,
SotL
