Romans 8:4, “That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
The word ‘fulfilled’ is passive voice and subjunctive mood or the mood of possibility. Fulfilled can mean the following: to make complete in every particular, to cause to abound, to furnish or supply liberally, to flood, to diffuse throughout, to pervade, to take possession of and so to ultimately to control.
The root of ‘fulfilled’ is to satiate, or fill a boat with fish, or to be filled with emotion and wholly possessed.
In Christ, I am His righteousness by revelation and grace. His righteousness IN ME satiates my being. It fills and diffuses into me making me a new, righteous, holy creation. The knowledge of fulfillment of the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in me completely and every way in Christ by revelation and grace. I partake of Him and am in Him.
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