The Fulfillment of the Law
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Jesus transforms us
Jesus offers us way more than sin management. He promises that he can transform us, inside out, to be authentically, naturally good people. We can live the eternal kind of life now, in this life. Up there can come down here in our hearts. That's what Jesus is on about in the passage we read. He says, `Don't think I've come to get rid of the law, the law is good. It's just not enough.` He says, `I've come to fulfill it, to complete it, to help it accomplish what it is meant to accomplish, which is the transformation of us.` Then he goes through a series of examples where he says, `You have heard it said , but I tell you ,` and he contrasts the difference between simply obeying a rule, and being a transformed person. Most of the examples he uses involve our two favorite sins, sex, and violence. He says, `You have heard it said, `Do not kill anybody, ' but I say to you, if you even get mad at someone and call them a name, then you're not living the eternal kind of life.` Maybe you've obeyed the rule outwardly, but inside you still have all this gunk. You have heard it said, `Do not commit adultery, ' but I say, even if you harbor a lustful fantasy that is a prison, that is a hell that you'll be in, it will drive you crazy, and it demeans the other person because you are just taking one part of them and not all of them. And you're not living the abundant life; you're not having the joy you could otherwise have, because you are consumed with anger, or lust, or pride, or whatever it is.`



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The Fulfillment of the Law

"Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill. For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished. Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Matthew 5:17-20
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