What did Jesus say of His attitude toward the law?
Answer
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." Matt.
5: 17.
NOTE-The word "fulfil" as here used is taken by many to mean that Christ brought the law to an
end. But the meaning of the word varies according to its usage, as is evident from the definition in the
Concise Oxford Dictionary: "Fulfil. Bring to consummation, carry out, (prophecy, promise) satisfy (desire,
prayer) perform, execute, do, (command, law) ; answer (purpose) comply with (conditions) bring to an end,
finish, complete, (period, work)."
In the sermon on the mount, so far from abolishing the law, Christ set forth its eternal,
unchangeable character, and the deep spirituality of its requirements, entering as they do into the thoughts
and intents of the heart.
At the beginning of His ministry, what example did Jesus set for the benefit of His followers?
By what did Peter, on the day of Pentecost, say that Christ had been approved by God?
Through Christ, what has been opened to the house of David?
How was the little horn to treat God's people?
Of what sin were the Amorites specially guilty?
Still bent on persecution, how does Satan manifest his enmity against the remnant church?
What great change will then take place in their bodies?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle