Jesus came to fulfill the Mosaic law and the Ten commandments. No man can fulfill the needs and demands of the law and only God can since He is the author of the laws. Jesus come to bring about that which Bible pointed in the Old Testament, and that is what Jesus has done.
Jesus Himself fulfilled the law in several ways:
- by keeping it perfectly
- by fulfilling the Old Testament messianic types and prophecies and
- by providing the way of salvation that adheres to all the righteous requirements of the Law.
How Jesus fulfilled the ten Commandments?
Jesus came on earth to fulfill and abolish the law as well as save man from slavery brought by the laws. His entire life on earth was to fulfill the law (the Ten Commandments and the Mosaic Law) and He accomplished this.
Let us look at each command separately.
Jesus was and He is God ‘I AM’. In the Holy Trinity there is no lesser God or three gods but the three are one. He had no other God but instead He was God.
Jesus is the perfect exact image of the invisible God. He is the exact image of the father. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature (Col 1:15). Jesus is the firstborn of every creature.
Heb 1:3: Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. If man wants to know and see how God looks like, let her/him look at Jesus.
The name Jesus is a powerful name and not to be taken in vain. Jesus fulfilled this law since He was God and always safe-guarding the name and crushing the destroyer of the name; Satan.
Jesus is the Head of the Church, the father of the church. He gave birth to the church on the cross when He was pierced on his side giving out blood and water. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence (Col 1:18).
He is our Sabbath Rest, the Lord of the Sabbath; Sabbath is Jesus. And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath (Mk 2:27-28).
Jesus was always doing the will of His father (God) even if it goes against the will of the biological parents. As I have stated, this command does not talk in any way of obeying our biological parents.
John 4:34, 5:30: Jesus said unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
Jesus is the creator and giver of life. We see in His ministry on earth how He gave life back to many. He is the creator and the word is life. Giving the word is giving life. He also gives eternal life. John 10:10: The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Adultery is first worshiping other gods and Jesus was and is God. Jesus created a bride from blood and water from his side. Jesus demonstrated his un-adulterous undying love to the church, his bride, even giving his life for her.
Jesus is the Great Provider. He does not take, but gives. The son of man had no place to lay His head and constantly gave all He had to those lost and wondering.
Jesus is the truth. He was false-fully accused but opened his mouth not to lie. Jesus is the Truth, and the Truth sets us free. He commands us to love your neighbor as yourself
He owned the entire world and heaven yet he did not covet instead he was giving and giving. He was content in His life, with no worldly wealth to compete and be envious of his neighbor but instead He gave his life for mans salvation.
Jesus had no sin. Sin comes from disobeying the law. The law is the knowledge of sin. This fact truly demonstrates to us that Jesus fully fulfilled the ten commandments.
The Law, bears witness to the grace of God, pointing ahead to its fulfillment, and climaxing in the gospel of Jesus Christ. The gospel does not abolish the Law, but fulfills it, by allowing it to be seen in its proper light. Jesus is the only complete fulfillment of the law and no man can fulfill the law.
All glory to Jesus Christ, Amen.
