From time to time, I enter a conversation with another believing brother. I say that the law of Moses has been abolished in Christ. The response is , but Jesus fulfilled the law. I respond He fulfilled it for the Jew and abolished for the Gentile. Romans say Christ is the end of the law, Rom. 10:4. Romans 8 says that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us1. If I fulfill paying off a debt then why should I continue paying it? It is fulfilled. Dictionary.com says fulfilled is defined as “to bring to an end; finish or complete, as a period of time.”2
I have a few questions:
- If Christ is the end of the law and has fulfilled it then am I by God’s grace and Spirit to follow in His footsteps as Testator (Heb. 9:16-17) and fulfill it again?
- Was Christ the only one who could fulfill the law (Rev. 5:2)?
He fulfilled the law without having sin in His own life to become our atonement. In doing so, He then abolished the requirements of the law in His flesh. He told the Jews He did not come to destroy the law but fulfill it, but Paul a Hebrew of Hebrews says He abolished the requirements it in His flesh.3 4 Jesus was talking to Jews who tried to obey the law. I think He was saying, “My brothers, you don’t have to fulfill it anymore. That is why I have come. To fulfill something you were never intended to fulfill or ever will fulfill. That was and is not its purpose.” Once again, my humble opinion. In the abolishment of the enmity, commandments and ordinances He created one new man out of two, Eph. 2:15.
Paul was saved and was even calling the Jews mutilators of the flesh. These mutilators were keeping the law of Moses through circumcision. I believe we as believers partake of His fulfillment one revelation at a time even though it is already fulfilled in us.
God says, “I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts”, Jer. 31:33. How? By grace and revelation of everything His Only Son accomplished. Paul even says, “To reveal His Son in me…”, Gal. 1:16. To me, this is more in line with sound doctrine. I am no longer called to keep the law. Chapter and verse heretic.
Galatians 3:10, “But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God’s Book of the Law.”
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