The law tool 4 – unfulfilled?
Where is Jesus?
How does this understanding change you?
Is your fulfillment Love?
According to Webster’s to fulfill means-“to make full,” “to put into effect: Execute” “to meet the requirements of” “to bring to an end” “to measure up to: Satisfy” “to convert into reality”
Question how are you fulfilled in a spiritual sense?
“The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.” Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.” – Luke 10:37
What is it that “meets the requirements” for you in a spiritual sense?
What is it that causes God Almighty to look at you and know that you “measure up?”
What is it that “bring(s) to an end” your hurt and need in your spiritual life?
What “convert(s) into reality” your righteousness before an All Holy God?
The answer to each and every one of these questions can be summed up in Love.
Christ and accepting Him makes a person full. We have been saved by Grace and the Love of God caused Him who was without sin to become the sacrifice for our sin. But more than that His sacrifice “fulfilled the law” and He in us “fulfills the law.” When we accept Him He comes in and lives inside us!
How important is this?
It’s night and day! If you still think that you have to follow the law after accepting Him as Lord and Savior then you are not fully fulfilled by Love. Am I saying live anyway you want to and don’t care about anyone but yourself? NO! What I am saying is if Love truly fulfills you, you will truly Love.
If you are still telling people how to live instead of Loving them no matter how they live then are you truly about Jesus?
What does it mean to have the law fulfilled?
Matthew 7:12- “…whatever you want others to do for you, do so for them, for this is the law and the prophets.”
Matthew 22:40- “On these two commandments depend the whole law and the prophets.”
Luke 10:25-37- The story of the Good Samaritan.
Romans 8:3,4- ” For what the law could not do….God did: sending His own Son…in order that the law might be fulfilled.”
Romans 13: 8-10- “…he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. For this [list of commandments] is summed up in this saying, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ …love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.”
Galatians 5:14- “For the whole law is summed up in one word, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 6:2- “Bear one another’s burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ.”
James 2:8- “If you are fulfilling the royal law, according to scriptures, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Matthew 5:17- “I did not come to abolish [the law of the prophets], but to fulfill.”
