Many people live striving to fulfill the demands of the law but they find themselves terribly breaking the same law they keep. No man fulfills the demands of the law, with every man born with Adam’s sin. Jesus Christ is the only complete law fulfillment.
The law claims complete obedience without one spot or speck, failure, or flaw, and Christ has brought in such righteousness as that, and gives it to his people. Jesus sinned not and this is what the law requires.
The law demands righteousness and only this righteousness is found in Jesus Christ. He was born with no sin; a Adam from heaven, born only from the seed of woman not man’s seed to fulfill the prophecy ‘And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel’ (Gen 3:15). The bible declaring that Jesus had no sin, it means He was pure and righteous.
It is impossible for any of us to be saved without righteousness and this is what the law demands. The God of heaven and earth by immutable necessity demands righteousness of all his creatures. Now, Christ has come to give to us the righteousness which the law demands, but which it never bestows.
The law asks and demands righteousness (sinless) which it cannot produce. Jesus Christ having no sin thus righteous asks for righteousness which He produces and provides. The righteousness which God asks from us is the righteousness of faith through His son which is also referred as ‘God’s righteousness’ (Roman 10:3) and those who have faith and believe in Him are righteous unto righteousness and ‘shall not be ashamed’.
What an amazing righteousness it is as broad and deep and long and high as the law itself. The commandment is exceeding broad, but the righteousness of Christ is as broad as the commandment, and goes to the end of it.
The law demands that the righteousness should be without omission of duty and without commission of sin, and the righteousness which Christ has brought is just such a one that for its sake the great God accepts his people and counts them to be without spot or wrinkle or any such thing (justified).
The law will not be content without spiritual obedience, mere outward compliance will not satisfy. But our Lord’s obedience was as deep as it was broad, for his zeal to do the will of him that sent him consumed him.
Only the righteous are and will be saved, and only Jesus Christ makes us righteous, and we are saved. He is righteous who believes on Him, even as Abraham believed God and it was accounted unto him for righteousness. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus (Rom 8:1).
Jesus cleared the guilty and the penalty which the law demands in Calvary. As He cried loudly ‘It is finished’. He meant that He is through with paying the penalty once and for all. Heb 9:12: Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
He is the end of the law in the sense that He is the termination of it. He has terminated it in two senses.
- Christians are not under the law (the old covenant)
- He has cleared the curse of the law to the born again. Gal 3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree
Why live striving and trying to fulfill the law which you will never, and it will never make you righteous, instead of letting the one who is righteous live in you and you will be righteous too?
