"I have come not to abolish the law or the prophets but to fulfill them," Matthew 5:17.
So. Jesus says he came to fulfill the law and the prophets. What law? The one of the covenant God made with Israel through Moses when God released them from Egyptian slavery. The one they broke. That law. That's what Jesus came to fulfill. And he did. Completely. He did not abolish it arbitrarily. No. Rather: Christ ended the law by fulfilling it. Jesus was its culmination and our righteousness. Jesus came in the flesh and did the law, he did God's will. Having fulfilled it, it's over. It's done. It is finished. So by his sacrifice, Jesus took out the earlier covenant to establish the new covenant. And by this new will, we are made holy through Jesus's offering.
We meet with a brother or sister today in a new covenant with God. And together we give praise for God's grace lavished on us in Christ.
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