When did Jesus fulfill the law?

Answer 1

Jesus both "kept: the law and "fulfilled" prophecy. It's a twist on words but not meant to confuse. As a matter of fact, there may even be a verse or two that indicate Christ "fulfilled" the law. I tend to see it more like Jesus having "kept" the law and "fulfilled" prophecy. Christ came to serve as a sacrifice to bring salvation to all men and women. Mankind is guilty of sin and has not kept God's law. Jesus "kept" the law for us. And when we believe in Jesus we are credited as having kept the law through Christ's obedience. Jesus "fulfilled" prophecy. Throughout the Old Testament there are many, many prophesies regarding the coming Messiah. If anyone was to be this Messiah, He had to fulfill all of these prophecies. Simply put, Christ "fulfilled" the prophesies foretold throughout scripture. Christ had to be without sin in order to qualify as a sacrifice without blemish. To accomplish this He had to keep the Law in all its fulness. When one believes in Christ he/she is given the righteousness of Christ. In so doing, believers are counted as having kept the law through Christ.

Answer 2

Isaiah 53 tells us that Jesus "hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him." When humanity saw Jesus, they didn't see anything extraordinary in Him. It also says, "He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him. He was despised and we esteemed him not." Jesus was perfect, and and everyone hated him. It continues on to say, "Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes, we are healed." Jesus carried on him the griefs, sins, sorrows, and cares of us all when he died on the cross to redeem us. The rest of the chapter contains other prophecies, which were also fulfilled. Verse 7 says, "He was opressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." When Jesus was tried, he said nothing to his accusers. He was brought before the cross, and he did not defend himself, for he had to fulfill the scriptures. Continue to read and draw parrallels to the Messiah's death and you will understand. Furthermore, there are over 100 different prophecies concerning Jesus' birth, death, and resurrection.

Answer 3

A:The Ten Commandments, from Exodus chapter 20 (NKJV):

1. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.

It would seem from the gospels that Jesus not so much fulfilled the Ten Commandments, but ignored them when it was convenient to do so, or in other cases that the Christian Church has ignored them in creating images of Jesus.

Some say that Jesus is also God, which either fulfils the first commandment, or breaks it. And if Jesus is indeed God, then the Christian Church has strayed grievously by making images of Jesus, against the second commandment.

The fourth commandment says to do no work on the Sabbath Day, nor to allow others to do so, yet Jesus broke this commandment and encouraged his disciples to do so.

The fifth commandment says to honour your father and your mother. Yet, when Mary and the brothers of Jesus came for him in Mark chapter 3, Jesus dishonoured them. He ignored his mother and said to the crowd, "Who is my mother, or my brethren?" He pointed to those around him, saying "Behold my mother and my brethren." A more pointed snub would be hard to imagine.

Answer:

To be mankind's sacrifice for sin, Jesus had to be perfect - being without sin as the unblemished Lamb or the whole exercise/event is worthless. Jesus brought the true spiritual meaning to the then letter of the law and criticized the religious leaders of the day for the excessive burdens they placed upon the Law of God for the people. Jesus was asked what must be done to inherit eternal life. His answer: "If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments"

Jesus is the 2nd divine being of the now Godhead. He is Lord of the Sabbath as He created it and gave it to man. Nowhere is it permissible to do harm or a wrong on the Sabbath. King David showed this to be true too when he broke open the grain silos to feed his army on the Sabbath. Remember, the Sabbath rest is to remember God and His beautiful Creation but if one is hungry and needs food, they are to eat and be full, not starve and get sick or die. How foolish is that?

Jesus' entire worldly life was in complete honor of His Heavenly Father. His mother knew this when He was 12 and lost in the Temple. When found He replied to his mother and step-father, 'did you not know I must be doing My Father's work.' But He wept at Joseph's death and ordered John to care for His mother from the Cross. Two of His brothers became leaders in the Church and each wrote a book in the NT. His Father's word was the priority but He still loved all - especially His immediate family though when He asked who is my mother or my brethren, He was speaking of those who would begin to follow His teachings and become disciples. For all who become followers will become his brothers and sisters as the Scripture says. Spinning the context of His words does not give light to anyone but will lead some into darkness.