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Over the last several months we have been studying “The Life of Christ” with the hope of drawing closer to our Lord and Savior through understanding his time here on earth.
Today we pickup our study in Matthew 5:17-20.
Jesus knew that many of the Jewish leadership would be concerned that he was disregarding the Law and the Prophets.
The Law and the Prophets simply means “Old Testament.”
After all Jesus would get in many arguments over the Law and the Prophets in areas like “the Sabbath” and “the washing of hands” with the Pharisees and the other Jewish leadership.
Jesus knew that what he was about to preach and teach on was going to make others seem like he had a negative view of the Law of Moses.
So, he states plainly that this isn’t going to be the case.
In fact, he would be striving to “fulfill it” not “destroy it.”
The word destroy here means to “utterly overthrow” while the word fulfill means to “bring to completion.”
Jesus didn’t come to “utterly overthrow” the Law of Moses but to “bring it to completion.”
There are roughly 330 prophecies about Christ and what he was expected to fulfill, found in the Old Testament.
We read in Deuteronomy 18:15-19 and Isaiah 53:5-6 that Messiah would “be from God, be God, and be God’s sacrifice” for us all.
We see in Daniel 2:44 that he would establish an everlasting kingdom and in Jeremiah 31:31ff we see that the Messiah would bring about a “new covenant.”
So then we must ask ourselves “did Jesus fulfill the Law and the Prophets?”
Because if he didn’t do so then he failed his purpose in coming to earth as we just read in Matthew 5:17.
Thankfully, for you and I, Jesus did fulfill what he set out to fulfill.
How do we know?
Because there has been a change in priesthood.
Look at what the Hebrew writer wrote in Hebrews 6:20.
Jesus, become our High Priest, required a change in priesthood (Hebrews 7) and that is what we see because “every child of God now” not just Levites are priest.
Also we know Jesus fulfilled his purpose because there is a new covenant and a new law.
Thanks be to God that Jesus did in fact fulfill the Law and the Prophets because without such we all would still be in our sins and have no hope in eternity (1 Corinthians 15:12-20).
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