Jesus Fulfilled the Law
ficial system “can never, by the same
sacrifices that are continually offered year after
year, make perfect those who
approach.
Otherwise, would they not have ceased
being
offered, since the worshipers,
cleansed once
for all, would no longer have any
consciousness of sin?
“But in these sacrifices there is a
reminder
of sin year after year. For it is
impossible for
the blood of bulls and goats to take
away
sins. Consequently, when Christ came
into
the world, he said, ‘Sacrifices and
offerings
you have not desired, but a body you
have
prepared for me
...
“It is by God’s will that we have
been
sanctified through the offering of
the body
of Jesus Christ once for all
...
when Christ
had offered for all time a single
sacrifice
for sins, ‘he sat down at the right
hand
of God,’...
For by a single offering he has
perfected for all time those who are
sanctified”
What this is telling us is that Jesus
fulfilled everything prescribed in
the offerings for sin in the law of sacrifices. Jesus
upheld the entire law by becoming the
sacrifice for sin.
If Christ had not presented Himself
as an
offering for sin, the sacrifices that
foreshadowed the “single offering for sins” would
have been an unfulfilled prophecy or
pledge,
because they all pointed to Him.
Jesus said He came not to destroy the
Law or the Prophets, but to fulfill
them.
He did so on several different levels
and in
several different ways. He showed the
full
spiritual intent of the law, living
it perfectly
as an example for us. The prophets
had
previously announced His person, His
mission and many details of His birth, life, death
and resurrection—which He fulfilled.
The
sacrifices of the law foreshadowed
His sacrificial death for the sins of all mankind—
which He alone could fulfill.
What Jesus was saying is that the Old
Testament in all its parts and
elements—
moral and prophetic—referred to Him
-
self and was accomplished by Him. He
fulfilled all aspects of what the Law
and
Prophets required, substantiating
them
and making good what they demanded
and
announced.
the law required perfect obedience
and
pronounced a death sentence on any
who broke it. Paul tells us that “the
wages
of sin is death
...” (Romans 6:23).
Consider, for a moment the penalty
that
each of us brought on ourselves by
sin. It isn’t
purgatory or hell, or some other
place or state
of being or consciousness (request or
down
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load our free booklet Heaven and
Hell: What
Does the Bible Really Teach?
). It is
death
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