Jesus

 I did not come to destroy but to fulfill: 

Jesus wanted to make it clear that He had authority apart from the Law of Moses, but not in contradiction to it. Jesus added nothing to the law except one thing that no man had ever added to the law: perfect obedience. This is certainly one way Jesus came to fulfill the law.

i. Even though He often challenged man’s interpretations of the law (especially Sabbath regulations), Jesus never broke the law of God.

ii. “A greater than the Old Testament, than Moses and the prophets, is here. But the Greater is full of reverence for the institutions and sacred books of His people. He is not come to disannul either the law or the prophets.” (Bruce)

iii. “Jesus fulfills the Law and the Prophets and they point to him, and he is their fulfillment.” (Carson)

·      Jesus fulfilled the doctrinal teachings of the Law and the Prophets in that He brought full revelation.

·      Jesus fulfilled the predictive prophecy of the Law and the Prophets in that He is the Promised One, showing the reality behind the shadows.

·      Jesus fulfilled the moral and legal demands of the Law and the Prophets in that He fully obeyed them and He reinterpreted them in their truth.

·      Jesus fulfilled the penalty of the Law and the Prophets for us by His death on the cross, taking the penalty we deserved.

To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood and made us a kingdom, priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever .

Amen.

...Its about who we really are ?

John Newton, who wrote 'Amazing grace how sweet the sound', has another hymn in which he says,

"What think you of Christ? is the test,
To try both your state and your scheme;
You cannot be right in the rest,
Unless you think rightly of him."

If asked what of Jesus I think,
Though still my best thoughts are but poor,
I say, He's my meat and my drink,
My life, and my strength, and my store."

Take Jesus away and you take all away, said John Newton, my meat, my drink, my life, my strength, my store, all are gone, but with Christ I have everything; without him I have nothing. On one occasion William Gadsby announced this text, "It pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell." He paused, looked at the congregation and he said, "Then everything else is emptiness." Everything apart from Christ lacks that eternal weight of glory.