Christ said “lo the volume of the book. It is written of me. I have come to do the will oh God”. He takes away the first to establish the second. Because the law and the prophets only explained in a linear fashion the ubiquitous things of God, meaning that everything the law represented from the Passover to David taking the articles into Jerusalem, were elements and concepts of timeless invisible truths of God. Paul called them “shadows of things to come” “having a likeness but not the essence” being images in contrast.
Christ came to fulfill the law by expiring the law. Christ came and didn’t do the law because it was something that had to be done because He is the law. All the law and prophets are a reflection of his personage, a portrait, His biography. So when Christ came to fulfill them, He took all the articles that were represented concepts of God broken down only for our understanding, these broken down concepts of himself He gathered and fulfilled in himself. In this way “all things are in Christ”. And then taking the Law unto himself, “gathering all things together in Christ. He took the thing that condemned us to the cross and there He took it out of the way and nailed the old Covenant law to the cross. He condemned sin in the flesh with all its articles feasts, practices, priests, prophets, and yes the city itself till “not one stone was left upon another. He put it all out of business. “All the law and the prophets were till John” The old way of doing business is over. Why? The law was given to kill. Why? To show that righteousness is not humanly possible. How many righteous people did law produce? “None, no not one” (Romans 3.10)
In Colossians 2 Paul explains it this way; 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. (Being the old covenant law) And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
The old Covenant law was the gospel of death that was added till faith comes, for us to live unto God and not a physical person or place but spirit and truth. The law in this way is antagonistic to the righteousness of faith. For those who try to do the law, reject the gift of righteousness. They reject Gods Son. Law was added till faith came and when the fullness of time came God sent His Son to redeem those under the old Covenant law. He came expiring and collecting artifacts of the things that were a shadow of things to come, fulfilled them, completed them and publicly nailed them to the cross.
The thing that killed us He took to Himself. “On Him was laid the iniquity of us all and by His stripes we are healed “. Including the condemnation and death of that law.
And since “God has already given us everything that pertains to life and godliness,” there is not one thing saved for a second coming Jesus. All things are new in Christ.
Paul said it like this “Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.” We stand on it as our foundation we walk on. And John said it like this “But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.” And “ Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, in order for Him to destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. And of those born among women there is non greater than John the Baptist. But he who is least in the Kingdom are greater than these”. We are greater than the prophets receiving the accumulative of what they tried to convey. We are greater being born of God and not counted of the carnal seed of man. As Christ said about John and the like “I do not receive the testimony of man”. That testimony failed miserably. How many righteous? None. No not one.
So we who are this cannot sin because all the law, its accusations and condemnations were taken to the cross and nailed there now as powerless instruments. With the expiration of those things Satan has nothing to say and in this way the accuser of the brethren is cast down. He becomes a toothless roadkill for us who receive this. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
Hebrews 2.14 Christ partook of flesh and blood, to through death destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil. Something a 2nd coming Jesus does not do .
Even David spoke of the blessedness of the man in whom the Lord imputes no sin. Because the law is an accounting method for measuring sin and storing up judgement . But we are free from the law. Why? It is nailed to the cross with Christs dead body. That which slays us has been slain at the cross. It is an expired document. A relic. Archives of things past. Even before that it only produced death and therefor its purpose of killing, has been neutralized and rendered ineffective and useless. “Do we then make void the law? No we establish it”. It is our starting point. Our foundation. We stand on them. It was gifted to us in Christ. He paid the price and received our prize. In this way God gave His Son. His Son is His gift to us who are this kind of righteousness. The righteousness of faith. What must we do to do the works of God? Keep all His commandments? Yah. By faith in the invisible “while we look not to the things that are seen”.
“On Him was laid the inequity of us all”. For those who could not let go of the law? They bore their own sin. All the blood shed from righteous Abel to Zachariah was required of that generation for despising the gift saying “all these things I have done from my youth. So all the sin, ills and killing was reset in the time when the Word became flesh and dwelled among us .
Like we have said in previous posts. The law has no relevance to us. Even as Paul said that “we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully, 9 knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners . And “love is the fulfillment of the law. And of James who spoke of the royal law saying “you shall love your neighbor as yourself. For those who love? Of such there is no law
Love is the fulfillment of the law because love is the cheif attribute of the Father. The laws are a break down of Him but applied without love they become killers. But we die no more.
1John 5.18 We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself,[e] and the wicked one does not touch him.
19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.
20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.