HOW DID JESUS FULFILL THE LAW?

The Law of Moses came with blessings for keeping it and curses for not keeping it.

Deuteronomy 28:1, 2 - And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:  And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 28:15 - But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

“For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all”  (James 2:10)

That puts us out of the race.  We can never reach that point of keeping the whole law.  So, we remain guilty.

Fortunately, our Lord Jesus Christ came and said  “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.” – Matthew 5:17

There are 2 ways by which the Law can be fulfilled:

a.      By keeping it and receiving the blessing.

b.     By not keeping it and suffers the punishment.

Jesus fulfilled the law by living the perfect law-abiding life that we could never live and died the law-satisfying death that we deserved to die.

Man could not keep the whole law and he was destined to be punished by death.  But then, our Lord Jesus Christ stepped in and took the punishment of death.  It was as if, we kept the law and received the blessing.  We were made righteous instantaneously.

“He who knew no sin became sin for us that you may become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus” (2 Corinthians 5:21). 

HOW COULD MAN BE MADE RIGHTEOUS 

WHO HAS DONE NO RIGHT THING?

IN THE SAME WAY THAT JESUS CHRIST 

WHO KNEW NO SIN WAS MADE SIN.

Can we simply believe that we are made the righteousness of God and behave like it?

It is more important to know what to do;

than to know what not to do.