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The Purpose and Fulfillment of the Law: A New Way of Living

Explore the purpose of the law, its contrast with the new covenant, and how to walk in fulfillment of the law through love and the guidance of the Spirit. Learn how the law points us to our need for God's grace and how faith in Jesus brings righteousness.

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The Purpose and Fulfillment of the Law: A New Way of Living

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  1. 1 Corinthians 10:11 These things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age. • 2 Timothy 2:15 "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately (KJV – rightly dividing) the word of truth."

  2. The Law The Believers Promised Land

  3. I. The Law Given at Sinai • Exodus 20

  4. Galatians 3:1-3,10-12,19-25 • Trying to become perfect by human effort • A promise given to Abraham – an inheritance • The law was given along side of it • Why? • To show people their sins • A guardian (tutor) to lead us to Christ • Temporary, until the coming of Jesus • Now that the way of faith has come, we no longer need the law as our guardian

  5. Matthew 5:17 ""Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill." • People are made right with God by their faith in the finished work of Christ, not by keeping the law

  6. Romans 3:19-31 • The purpose of the law • To show that everyone is guilty before God • To show us how sinful we are • No one can ever be right with God be keeping the law • We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus – that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood • Jews or Gentiles – only by faith • Only when we have faith do we truly fulfill the law

  7. Romans 7:4-13 • Because of our sinful nature, the law aroused evil desires • Now we serve God, not in the old way of obeying the law, but in a new way of living in the Spirit • The law showed me my sin

  8. Romans 8:1-4 • The power of the Spirit has freed you from the power of sin and death • What the law of Moses could not do, God did by sending Jesus as a sacrifice for our sins • Do this and live, the law commands but gave me neither feet nor hands A better word, the gospel brings It bids me fly and gives me wings

  9. Purpose of the Law as given to Israel • To regulate conduct • To define what sin was • To show the inherent tendency to do evil • To awaken the sense of need for God’s grace

  10. II. The New Contrasted to the Old • You have not come to Sinai, but Zion (Hebrews 12) • You have come to Jesus, the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people.

  11. 2 Corinthians 3:6-18 • A new covenant, not of written laws, but of the Spirit

  12. The New • Of the Spirit • Brings life • Came with surpassing glory • Made us right with God • Remains forever • The old • Written laws • Led to death • Came with fading glory • Brought condemnation • Replaced with the new way

  13. III. Walking in the Fulfillment of the Law • It looks different than walking as under the law • It is a walk with the Spirit rather than a suppression of the flesh • It is with the law written on our minds and on our hearts • Conscience prompted by the indwelling Spirit of God

  14. Matthew 22:36 - 40 36“Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?” 37Jesus replied, “‘You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’  38This is the first and greatest commandment.  39A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’  40The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”

  15. Under the law – commands of behavior – “thou shall not…” • Fulfillment of the Law – Love • Romans 13:8-10 • Love one another • Love – the fulfillment of the law • All the commands summed up on love your neighbor as yourself

  16. Love the Lord your God

  17. And your neighbor as yourself

  18. Love – a much higher law than “thou shall not…”

  19. Love Defined - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience, it looks for a way of being constructive. It is not possessive: it is neither anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance. Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage. It is not touchy. It does not compile statistics of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when Truth prevails. Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen.

  20. Under the Law - Dietary laws • Eat no unclean thing • Fulfillment of the Law – food freedoms • Mark 7:14-19 • Food doesn’t defile you • He declared every kind of food acceptable in God’s eyes

  21. Acts 10:9-20 – Peter’s vision • Never eaten anything our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean • Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean • Vs. 34 – I see very clearly God shows no favoritism

  22. 1 Timothy 4:3 - 5 3They will say it is wrong to be married and wrong to eat certain foods. But God created those foods to be eaten with thanks by faithful people who know the truth.  4Since everything God created is good, we should not reject any of it but receive it with thanks.  5For we know it is made acceptable by the word of God and prayer. 

  23. Under the Law – Seventh Day Sabbath rest • Fulfillment of the Law - Sabbath rest – more than a seventh day of observing rest from work as commanded in the law, but a lifestyle of faith and resting from our works to be made right with God.

  24. Luke 6 – doing what is “unlawful” • Disciples picking grain on the Sabbath • David and men eating consecrated bread • Jesus healing on the Sabbath • The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath

  25. Hebrews 4:9 - 11 9So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God.  10For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world.  11So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.

  26. IV. Conclusion • A far better covenant – Hebrews 8:6-13 • Complete forgiveness of the sins of the repentant • Makes us children of God • Gives us a new heart and nature so we can spontaneously love and obey God • Brings us into intimate personal relationship with Jesus and Father God • Provides a greater experience with the indwelling, infilling Holy Spirit

  27. Reflection Time • Entrance into the Believers Promised Land is by way of the New Covenant, whereby we are made right with God by grace through faith, not of works. Have you made entrance into the promised land, or are you trying to be okay with God by your behavior? • How would you complete this statement? “When I die, I believe I will go to heaven because…”

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