Yahshua said:
(CLV) Lk 16:17
Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass by than for one serif of the law to fall.
After Yahshua ascended, James, Yahshua's brother, ordered Paul to make temple sacrifices to prove that he was obedient to the Torah.
(CLV) Ac 21:23
This, then, which we are saying to you, do. With us are four men having a vow on them.
(CLV) Ac 21:24
Taking these along, be
purified together with them, and bear their expenses, that they should be shaving their heads, and all will know that what they have been instructed concerning you is nothing, but you also are observing the elements and you yourself are maintaining the law.
Purify G48
ἁγνίζω hagnízō, hag-nid'-zo; from G53; to make clean, i.e. (figuratively) sanctify (
ceremonially or morally):—purify (self).
I.
ceremonially
A. to make pure, purify, cleanse
II. morally
G48 - hagnizō - Strong's Greek Lexicon (KJV)
Hi HARK,
We may not agree on this, but for me the answer is yes. All the ceremonial laws, including the Sabbath - the first in the list of Leviticus 23, were all fulfilled in Christ. Not by Christ, but
in Him. They represented Him.
As for the vows, Paul said he would do anything to save his fellow Jews and Gentiles.
1 Corinthians 9:
19
For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more; 20 and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews;
to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law; 21 to those
who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those
who are without law; 22 to the weak I became]as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all
men, that I might by all means save some. 23 Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with
you.
Matthew 5:
17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy
but to fulfill. 18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law
till all is fulfilled.
Christ makes the law stronger, and deeper. Yet we find in Acts and beyond that Christ provides His Spirit to be in us to keep the righteous requirements of the law, and takes away our desire to sin.
Matthew 5:
21 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’ 22
But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment.
27 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28
But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
33 “Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord.’ 34
But I say to you, do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne; 35 nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. 36 Nor shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black. 37 But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.
Galatians 4:
21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had
two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he
who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, 24 which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from
Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar— 25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— 26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written:
“Rejoice, O barren,
You who do not bear!
Break forth and shout,
You who are not in labor!
For the desolate has many more children
Than she who has a husband.”
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac
was, are children of promise. 29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him
who was born according to the Spirit, even so
it is now. 30 Nevertheless what does the Scripture say?
“Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.” 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.
2 Corinthians 3:
7 But if the
ministry of death,
written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which
glory was passing away, 8 how will the
ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation
had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. 10 For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. 11 For if what is passing away
was glorious, what remains
is much more glorious.
Romans 8:1-9
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3
For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those
who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded
is death, but to be spiritually minded
is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind
is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
