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Mount is that—because His preaching was so different from that of the

Pharisees and Sadducees—some people believed His intention was to

subvert the authority of God’s Word and substitute His own in its place.

But His real intention was to demonstrate that many of the things the

Pharisees and Sadducees had taught all along were contrary to the original teachings of the Torah of Moses, the first five books of the Bible.

Jesus refuted the erroneous ideas people had formed regarding Him

with three emphatic declarations about the law. Let’s look at them.

“I did not come to destroy but to fulfill”

Jesus explains His view of the law very quickly after giving the beatitudes:

“Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets.

I did not come to destroy but to fulfill”

(Matthew 5:17).

So immediately we see that Jesus had no intention of destroying

the law. He even tells us not to even

think

such a thing. Far from being

antagonistic to the Old Testament Scriptures, He said He had come to

fulfill

“the Law and the Prophets” and proceeded to confirm their authority. “The Law and the Prophets” was a term commonly used for the Old

Testament Scriptures (compare Matthew 7:12).

“The Law” referred to the first five books of the Bible, the books of

Moses in which God’s laws were written down. “The Prophets” referred

not only to the writings of the biblical prophets, but also to the historical

books of what came to be known as the Old Testament.

We have discussed in earlier chapters how Jesus fulfilled “the Prophets.” But what did Jesus mean when He spoke of fulfilling the law?

Regrettably, the meaning of “fulfilling the law” has been twisted by

many who claim the name of Jesus but don’t really understand what He

taught. They say that since Jesus said He would fulfill the law, we no longer need to keep it and the law has no further obligation on His

followers.

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