Fulfillment of the Law: Jesus' Transformative Teachings
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“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” [00:32:04]
“The Law can tell us what to do, but the Law does not have the energy to enable us to do it. You remember how Paul puts this in Roman 8:3-4, ‘What the law could not do God did through his Son sending Him in the likeness of the flesh of sin and to be a sacrifice for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.’” [00:51:32]
“Paul was adamant that rather than destroy the Law, the gospel gives us the power to fulfill the Law and makes the Law our delight, and he learned that from the teaching of the Lord Jesus because this is what Jesus is saying here, and I want you to notice several things that He has to say about the relationship between the Christian and the Law.” [00:59:28]
“Where the Law is despised or ignored, or where people say we can jettison the Law because we are New Testament Christians, then you say, ‘Wait a minute here, how you think about the Law and its ongoing role in the Christian life is actually a litmus test of how you think about Me and how you think about Christian discipleship.’” [00:21:24]
“Does that mean that we must fulfill the Law in ways that they don’t? And that is exactly what Jesus means. But you see what He wants to say is, ‘The path the Pharisees have chosen will never lead to the fulfillment or the fullness of the Law in their lives. But the path of the gospel will always produce that fill-full-ment.’” [00:50:03]
“Jesus wants to emphasize, no Christians do not dispense with the role of the Law, but they understand that the filling full of the Law in our lives takes place not out of our own strength but only because the kingdom of God has broken in and given us new affections and empowered us in new ways.” [00:11:00]
“Jesus has said this astonishing thing, ‘Unless your righteousness is greater than the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees, you will have no part in the kingdom.’ And of course his hearers are asking the question, ‘How can that possibly be the case? You know, we have always looked to these Pharisees and their intimidating obedience to God’s Law, and we thought I can never get up that high, and now He is telling us we are going to get up higher.’” [00:13:07]
“Jesus enables us to fulfill the Law of God at a much deeper level than the scribes and the Pharisees, and because He enables us to keep the Law of God at that much deeper level. You remember the promise of Jeremiah, ‘God will come by His Spirit, and He will write the Law right down into your hearts, and so obedience will arise from your heart.’” [00:22:24]
“Jesus fulfills not only the moral dimension of the Law in our place but Jesus is the one who fulfills all these Old Testament pictures that the people were given that pointed them to how their sins would eventually be forgiven through one great sacrifice made by a high priest after the order of Melchizedek, not a high priest after the order of Aaron.” [00:16:51]
“One can put it this way, being an Old Testament Jew worked only in one country in the world, did it not? Why? Because the sacrifices were in Jerusalem, the feasts were in Jerusalem. If you were an Old Testament Jew somewhere else, you had to come back to this one country, this one nation, but no longer.” [00:18:30]
“Now of course, there are many things that our societies can learn from the different ways in which God’s Law was applied to civic life in terms of justice as the Westminster Confession says, in terms of the general equity of the Law, but you see what Jesus is saying? He is saying, ‘I not only filled the Law full in your life, but I filled the Law full because I am the one to whom the Law was pointing.’” [00:19:54]
“Jesus shows us how the Law of God operates in the life of the Christian believer, and that is actually what the rest of Matthew chapter 5 is taken up with. Jesus has said this astonishing thing, ‘Unless your righteousness is greater than the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees, you will have no part in the kingdom.’” [00:21:47]
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“The Law can tell us what to do, but the Law does not have the energy to enable us to do it. You remember how Paul puts this in Roman 8:3-4, ‘What the law could not do God did through his Son sending Him in the likeness of the flesh of sin and to be a sacrifice for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.’” [00:51:32]
“Paul was adamant that rather than destroy the Law, the gospel gives us the power to fulfill the Law and makes the Law our delight, and he learned that from the teaching of the Lord Jesus because this is what Jesus is saying here, and I want you to notice several things that He has to say about the relationship between the Christian and the Law.” [00:59:28]
“Where the Law is despised or ignored, or where people say we can jettison the Law because we are New Testament Christians, then you say, ‘Wait a minute here, how you think about the Law and its ongoing role in the Christian life is actually a litmus test of how you think about Me and how you think about Christian discipleship.’” [00:21:24]
“Does that mean that we must fulfill the Law in ways that they don’t? And that is exactly what Jesus means. But you see what He wants to say is, ‘The path the Pharisees have chosen will never lead to the fulfillment or the fullness of the Law in their lives. But the path of the gospel will always produce that fill-full-ment.’” [00:50:03]
“Jesus wants to emphasize, no Christians do not dispense with the role of the Law, but they understand that the filling full of the Law in our lives takes place not out of our own strength but only because the kingdom of God has broken in and given us new affections and empowered us in new ways.” [00:11:00]
“Jesus has said this astonishing thing, ‘Unless your righteousness is greater than the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees, you will have no part in the kingdom.’ And of course his hearers are asking the question, ‘How can that possibly be the case? You know, we have always looked to these Pharisees and their intimidating obedience to God’s Law, and we thought I can never get up that high, and now He is telling us we are going to get up higher.’” [00:13:07]
“Jesus enables us to fulfill the Law of God at a much deeper level than the scribes and the Pharisees, and because He enables us to keep the Law of God at that much deeper level. You remember the promise of Jeremiah, ‘God will come by His Spirit, and He will write the Law right down into your hearts, and so obedience will arise from your heart.’” [00:22:24]
“Jesus fulfills not only the moral dimension of the Law in our place but Jesus is the one who fulfills all these Old Testament pictures that the people were given that pointed them to how their sins would eventually be forgiven through one great sacrifice made by a high priest after the order of Melchizedek, not a high priest after the order of Aaron.” [00:16:51]
“One can put it this way, being an Old Testament Jew worked only in one country in the world, did it not? Why? Because the sacrifices were in Jerusalem, the feasts were in Jerusalem. If you were an Old Testament Jew somewhere else, you had to come back to this one country, this one nation, but no longer.” [00:18:30]
“Now of course, there are many things that our societies can learn from the different ways in which God’s Law was applied to civic life in terms of justice as the Westminster Confession says, in terms of the general equity of the Law, but you see what Jesus is saying? He is saying, ‘I not only filled the Law full in your life, but I filled the Law full because I am the one to whom the Law was pointing.’” [00:19:54]
“Jesus shows us how the Law of God operates in the life of the Christian believer, and that is actually what the rest of Matthew chapter 5 is taken up with. Jesus has said this astonishing thing, ‘Unless your righteousness is greater than the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees, you will have no part in the kingdom.’” [00:21:47]
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