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Law Fulfillment Lunacy!

Are we adequately equipped to teach God's word? Or rather are we repeating things from the bible making outlandish statements because we have an agenda given to us by some religious group? What we mean here is, when a person take a word, or a verse out of context to the rest of the scriptures and uses it to build a legal case to disproves an establish foundation truth of Jesus Christ, those doing so, are either badly mislead or evil, in using God's written word for personal gain to have power over others.

2 Corinthians 4:2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

And here is one of the biggest error in common sense judgment that a person can make when they refused to understand the simplest of word usages in human language, which is, in the word
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“fulfillment/fulfill” twisting it into an entirely different meaning!

No one in their right mind would miss uses the word fulfillment to mean the exact opposite of what its very meaning is in daily life without having some agenda or evil motive to hid the truth confusing people into believing the lie!

Contractual fulfillment is the fabric of human civilization it's found in every country in the world and on every page of mankind's history. So why would a person twisted the word fulfill into a completely opposite meaning of what Christ stated when speaking truth, a truth he spoke some two thousand's years ago when he making the point about the law, and why he was born under it and sent to fulfill it?

Matt.5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

No government, no business, or home ownership, nor civilization could exist on earth today if they used the word fulfillment/fulfill in the exact opposite as most Christian's uses it when it comes to the completion of God's law. Hence, such lunacy would make contract law impossible to execute because no one could every pay off their contract by law!

This blindness is so widely spread among Christian's and accepted they self-inflict themselves into twisting all the scriptures to upon the law as not being fulfilled making it almost impossible to removed such error from the Christian's minds.

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We must understand what Christ stated as a foundation truth for his coming to our earth? In fact, the sole reason God sent him was to fulfill the law of Moses, Without that divine appointment and commission it makes Christ God given purpose meaningless to those twisting the word fulfillment into an entirely different meaning; into not being fulfilled at all, but rather made into an endless continuum of everlasting contract with God that never satisfied or completed!

Luke 14:28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

The definition of legal fulfillment of a contract:

{A business contract creates certain obligations that are to be fulfilled by the parties who entered into the agreement. Legally, one party's failure to fulfill any of its contractual obligations is known as a "breach" of the contract. :to put into effect : EXECUTE
He fulfilled his pledge to cut taxes.}

The definition of Fulfilling:

B: to meet the requirements of (a business order)Their order for more TVs was promptly fulfilled.

C: to measure up to : SATISFY She hasn't yet fulfilled the requirements needed to graduate.

D: to bring to an end she came to install herself and fulfill her time at the house— Willa Cather

Romans 10:4 For Christ is the fulfillment{or, completion, or end} of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

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Would we go to a foot doctor to have a tumor removed from our brain? Why would we go to those with no understanding of contractual law for a false definition of the word fulfill? Sadly, that is exactly what so many Christian's are have done and are doing. Moreover, if Christ did not fulfill the law legally as God requirement for him, then none of us are Christian's, nor does the rest of God's word in the Greek scripture make any sense!

So we are faced with a syllogism instead of the truth of Christ?

Syllogism meaning: an instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn (whether validly or not) from two given or assumed propositions (premises), each of which shares a term with the conclusion, and shares a common or middle term not present in the conclusion (e.g., all dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; therefore all dogs have four legs).

Matt.5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Christian's are in a law syllogism to equate the word destroy with the word fulfilled. Agreed, both are in the same statement but it does not change the meaning of fulfilled into not being completed! In other words, fulfillment then comes to mean destroy which is anything but the truth of how Christ used it, not even why he stated it! Thus, it takes a syllogism to come up with such an absurd meaning that the law must stand forever or the prophet will be destroy.

Who would say; “I am destroying my contract so I don't have to fulfill it”, and expect any court of law to up hold such a crazy thought and make it a legal ruling! Or to say; “if I destroy the contract to my home I must destroy my home”. No, fulfilling one, has nothing to do with destroying the other just because they are used in the same statement. “I want to destroy the home which is still under contract so I can become debt free and satisfy the courts!”
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(The prophets will be destroyed if Christ fulfills the law, what officiating reasoning).

No again, very bad judgment that is intentional fraud to get out of a legal obligation. Yes, the prophets were under the contract of the law, fulfilling it only glorifies their work of being prophets in God's household; Moses was put in charge of building! Moses household under the law was paid off, fulfilled by Christ blood, pretty simple, if not, then Christ died in vain!

Hebrews 3:5 Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

Hebrews 3:6 but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

No one with an adult mind could imagine such a thing but a foolish person living in a fantastical world of make believe!, but that is exactly what so many Christians' are doing and teaching.

Which is, because the Christ did not destroy the law, but came to fulfill it, it can't be completed by anyone, it must go on as long as there are heavens above our earth. They are saying that Christ is not the fulfillment of the law. Furthermore, its OK to live under it and teach it for Christian's, missing the whole organic truth that Christian's are birthed into Christ and that is where the word Christian came from, hence, Christian's have never been under the law it was complete before the first Christian's was birthed into Christ creating Christianity!

Such thinking is an misguided nobility towards a phony syllogism. Christian's are putting their faith in keeping a law that proved we are sinners and in a law that could not perfect us from sin, that is, remove our sins once for all times!
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Hebrews 7:19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Now stop and pay attention isn't that why God sent us Christ in the first place, if the laws righteousness was enough already? Then why did God sent us Christ righteousness which is not part of the law at all? (the righteousness of the laws animal blood, did you know that?)

Many have indeed been blinded into ignorance, into blatant factual legal error by changing the meaning of fulfill so the law cannot be complete. Think of that it is God's own contract He sent his Son to pay it off by the blood of Christ!

Romans 3:22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction.

Romans 10:3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Romans 9:31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

Righteousness

Because something is righteous does not mean it cannot be ended. What is righteousness? Well, for most people its a profound mystical word that imputes that it is everlasting, divine, and spiritual, but is it?

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The truth is, it simply means to be right with God. In other words, what are God's standards of right and wrong? Not ours standards of right and wrong, eventhough, we can love God's standards of right and wrong it does not mean we ourselves are right, and/or righteous. Nor that we can live up to them!

In other words, righteousness does not rub off on too us by reading or keeping the law or thinking about it constantly. Righteousness according to our bibles is a gift given us by God, Because he must paid the price for our unrighteousness act that ends in death, for the wages of sin are death!

Original Signification.
The original implications of the root "ẓadaḳ" are involved in doubt. To be "hard," "even," and "straight" (said of roads, for instance) has been suggested as the primitive physical idea. More acceptable is the explanation that the root-notion conveyed is that a thing, man, or even God, is what it, or he, should be, that is, "normal," "fit." That conception may, without much difficulty, be recovered from some of the applications of the terms in the Bible. Weights and measures are called "ẓedeḳ" ("just" or "right"; Deut. xxv. 15; Lev. xix. 36; Job xxxi. 6; Ezek. xlv. 10). Paths are "ẓedeḳ," that is, as they should be, easy to travel (Ps. xxiii. 3). So with offerings, when brought in the proper manner and at the right time (Deut. xxxiii. 19; Ps. iv. 6 [A. V. 5], li. 21 [A. V. 19]). When a king or judge is as he should be he is "just" (Lev. xix. 15; Deut. i. 16; Prov. xxxi. 9). When speech is as it should be it is "truthful"

(comp. Ps. lii.). The outcome of the battle being favorable, it is called "ẓedaḳah" (= "victory"; Judges v. 11). To justify oneself, or another, is also expressed by the root, as it really means to prove oneself, or another, to be innocent of a charge, or in the right (that is, as one should be; Job ix. 15, 20; xi. 2; xiii. 18; Isa. xliii. 9; Ps. cxliii. 2). In many of the passages in which the root has this physical implication an ethical element may be discovered. "Right" weights may be also "righteous" weights. The battle may be looked upon as a sort of divine ordeal, and hence the issue may be said to be "righteous" (= "ẓedaḳah"; see Schwally, "Der Heilige Krieg im Alten Israel," p. 8). In the Song of Deborah—one of the oldest literary compositions—this implication is not absent from the word, employed in the plural in connection with Yhwh (Judges v. 11). So in its earliest use, among Hebrews, the term "righteousness" seems to have had a moral intention.

Haggai 2:12 'If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food,
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will it become holy?'" The priests answered, "No."

Our touching something that is righteous physical or mentally, or even upholding some thing that is righteous cannot make us righteous. Righteousness must be a legal act from God in redeeming us. from our sins by the blood of his Son Christ Jesus that is what gives us the righteousness of Christ. Now pay close attention here, we did not say it gives us the righteousness of Law the two were very much different.

Hebrews 9:19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.

Hebrews 9:22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

The two righteousness were not the same there is a righteousness of the law which was satisfied by God allowing animal blood for a person to be pardon of their sins so they could be right under the laws righteousness which God had given to Moses. But that righteousness was not an everlastingly righteousness as what Christian's are in Christ, (the law righteousness was a mundane shadow from this earth in inferior blood of animals not eternal come down to us from above). The righteousness of Christ which are now the new heavens and soon to be new earth are from Christ righteousness, that is, his blood and not the blood of animals.

Hebrews 9:12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

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Hebrews 13:20 Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

That is, the blood God is dealing with right now, but is the blood of Christ for the old contract of the law, or a new contract of the law of love? That thinking is normal, but its not real, once again
no Christian's is in Christ got there by the blood of animals, or because of the law; the only way to keep the law was through animal blood, not Christ blood. Christ blood completed the Law once for all times opening a new living way into God in Spirit and truth, not by laws of Moses!

1 Peter 1:19 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

Christ completed all obligations to Moses law, it was finished set aside gone forever.

To keep thinking we are paying a bill that has been completed for us is a real lack of appreciation for God's gift of life to us in the Son of God.

Galatians 2:21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

Galatians 4:4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law.

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Galatians 4:5 that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

Hebrews 10:29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

We may will be inclined towards righteousness, but it does not mean we have our hearts and minds sprinkled in the blood of Christ redeeming us from our old flesh so we can be born new into Christ our righteousness.

Philippians 3:9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

Thus, can an non-living material object be right/righteous with God to be used for a purpose for a time and then be set aside? The bible is full of things God stated at the time were right (made right by animal blood under the law) such as the tent of meeting; did it get set aside for the temple of God? Yes it did! Does it mean the tent of meetings must be rebuilt for us to be completed in Christ as Christian's?

Are not Christians right with God right now by faith in Christ? Did Christ state any where to put faith in the law, well? If not why not? Must we go back and kill animals again, and again to be in good standing in Christ before God?

Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God.
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Romans 5:1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Must Christians' rebuilt the temple of David/Solomon to be right with God today? Are Christian's the temple of God right now without any blood of animal being poured out? Are they made right in Christ our temple by his blood?

This is the Sad and circular logic of so many because they don't understand legal issues of the law, the law of Moses, or any law for that matter; these are not studied in law, so they assume things from feelings which trick their minds into believing unethical illegal acts against God's purposes and the law itself when reading Christ did not come to destroy the law, or the prophets.

Luke 24:44 He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."

Well, obliviously not, he did not, because if we believe our scriptures Christ is the finished work of God and the completion of all the prophets before him, and the law, the law they all lived under. Those are not human words, but God's words which say's all those things before Christ in Israel were mundane shadows of the
living reality Christian's find in Christ under a new contract, the new covenant with God. It being opened into existence by righteous blood for all eternity written into our hearts that have the eternal life of Christ indwelling us by Christ perfect and Superior blood.

Jeremiah 32:40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

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2 Corinthians 3:3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

2 Corinthians 4:6 seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness,"{Genesis 1:3} who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

It is the blood of Christ not animal blood that transfer us into the kingdom of the Son love to teaches us the law of love that is Christ law, not the old law. Have you ever noted when Christ spoke of the law he never said this is my law, he state this is your law, would you like to know why?

Colossians 1:13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

Well, again put on a legal hat and let us start think legally not emotionally or we will never understand the law. Law are created not for people who don't break them, but for people who do break them. If a person is right with God they have no law over them (the law declares them righteous, not under its judgment for sinners). A righteous person is declared righteous by God, thus, they cannot be under a law made for sinner that is created to punish sinners who are unrighteous.

1Tim.1:7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
1:8 But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,
1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

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1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

Christ never sinned he is the one righteous person God put on this earth without sin; the law was never created for Christ because he never sin, there is no purpose in imputing evil to Christ by our thinking like sinner just in case lets make a bunch of laws so when he does sin we punish him that my friend is imputing evil just like the world does! That is not God or love, love does not impute evil. God did not input evil to Adam that is why he was not given a law book created for evil people; Adam was created sinless, hence, he was right before God and/or righteous and needed no laws for sin! Adam needed no blood to make him righteous atoning for sin for he was sinless.

None for us should take that one verse out of context to everything else that is written in God word, which is, the main theme of the entire Greek writings by the apostles of Christ in trying to proving beyond a shadow of a doubt we are still under the law instead of the truth that Christ was the fulfillment of the law for Christian's. Moreover, it is vital to lets one know if they go back to the law they are cursed by it, by its righteous standards a standard that could only keep by the constant shedding of inferior blood of animals. Enslaving themselves to a law that prove they could not keep it. Nor are Christian's allowed to teach it as being enforced upon the body of Christ. (the body of Christ didn't come into existence until Christ completed/fulfilled the law!)

Galatians 2:16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

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Galatians 2:18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

Galatians 2:19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

Galatians 2:21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

Galatians 3:2 I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Galatians 3:5 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."{Deuteronomy 27:26}

Galatians 3:11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."{Habakkuk 2:4}

Galatians 3:12 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."{Leviticus 18:5}

Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"{Deuteronomy 21:23}

And if they did so they would be standing away from the Christ (Christ righteousness); standing away from all that Christ had done for them in giving them his life freely so they could be set free from the law.
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That standing away from Christ is the real apostasy that most Christian's have no idea exist or what it actually means to be an apostate from Christ, it is not in standing away from the law or a Christian organization!

Heavens and Earth Will not Pass Away

Matt.5:18 For verily I say to you, Till heaven and earth shall pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Once again the human logic runs to the extreme in deciphering Christ words here. Did Christ say fulfilling the law meant the removal of the heavens and earth , and/or did he say the heavens and earth can never be removed no more so then the law can be removed unless it fulfilled both are equal in staying power?

That is, the law must be completed by perfect blood that no human on earth from Adam could do because of sin. The fulfillment must be completed by a perfect man, the last Adam, not some what, and/or half way, or partly by using animal blood, it must wholly be fulfilled to the perfect degree of God righteous standards, and it must await God's time table to be completed. Thus God's standards created the existing heavens and earth, so why would his standards any less for his law, than the physical creation?

No one under the heavens on earth could fulfill the law because all have sinned and fall short of God's glory. It would be impossible for people born into sin to fix the problem, thus, how could the remove the law for sin, come out from enslavement to sin?

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Why talk about the fulfillment of the law if it was not the issue at the time?

It was God's prophet that spoke about its fulfillment throughout their writings pointing to a new and better covenant with God for God's people where all them would be taught by God, not by the law any longer? (in teaching the law each one did not reveal the truth from heaven) There is absolutely no uses in doing so and it makes no sense to create an issue of completing the law not unless Christ was sent for that very purpose spoken through the prophets of God. Christ was being opposed by the teachers of the law!

Was Christ a contentious trouble maker steering up evil among his brothers the Jews by speaking of a law fulfillment something a Jew could hardly believe would ever end?

Well, hardly! Once again those saying Christ words prove the law cannot be removed or be completed because heavens and earth can't be removed are believing a critical error that Christian's entire faith stand on, if the law is not fulfilled then it is as profound lie, just as big of lie that Satan told Eve, it is the corruption of Christ and his righteousness is saving us from God's judgment by the law. Christ removed us from by his life blood in a new creation, a new heaven, and earth where his own righteousness dwells; he did not reform the old law. Or perfect something that could perfect by removing sin in us, it was completed by his giving us his perfect life to create a perfect covenant that would perfect all things into the oneness of Christ then he would present the oneness without sin, or its law to his Fathers glory!

1Cor.15:20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

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15:21 For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man. 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's, at his coming.
15:24 Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power. 15:25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 5:26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death. 15:27 For, "He put all things in subjection under his feet."{Psalm 8:6} But when he says, "All things are put in subjection," it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.
15:28 When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

That testimony is the perfect witness that calls out from heaven when God set Christ in the heavens as the ruler of all things
of God, two thousand years ago by resurrecting him from death recreating Christ into the incorruptible Spirit person; Yes the living force behind the everlasting convent of with God. A far superior power that none of God people obtain to by the shadow of the law; something far higher than the law did for fleshly Israel.

Col. 2:6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him, 2:7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving. 2:8 Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ. 2:9 For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, 2:10 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power; 2:11 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

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2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. 2:13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 2:14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; 2:15 having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, 2:17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's. 2:18 Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 2:19 and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth. 2:20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, 2:21 "Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch" 2:22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men? 2:23 Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

Can a Sinner Keep The Law, why then blood?

Matt.5:19 Whoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whoever shall do, and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Did John the Baptist teach against the law? Well, if Christ words are true here, that is, the way the majority of Christian's apply them, then John the Baptist must of taught against the law by Christ own words!
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Luke 7:28 "For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he."

In fact, none before John the Baptist ascended into heaven before Christ so all of them must of not keep the law? Now there is a perfect example of not putting the whole truth into contexts. Which ends up in an extreme that we must work to build a case around to hang our agenda upon in denying the truth of Christ.

Can a sinner keep the law?

Let us not argue over this, let's be honest here? No sinner could keep the law, because like it or not there was not one righteousness person on earth who has not sinned. If a person sinned then they were not righteous. A righteous found in their own life force, the blood, was not enough they must seek God's righteousness and God must redeem that person by precious blood a gift of life, that is, a righteous blood only God can created without sin!

Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

John the Baptist had not received that precious blood of Christ and neither had any of the prophets before him had, or for that matter any person before Christ came and died they had not received Christ blood. Why, because the contract of the old covenant hadn't yet been fulfilled by Christ blood it could not be completed until Christ came, when Christ completed the law and set it aside for the perfect one ( a new covenant then we could be born in the law of Christ) in Christ, that is, what the new contract is about not in the old law, but a new covenant in Christ,

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not an old one enforced by false logic of human wisdom that could not be kept by sinner in the first place. There is not one righteous man, no not one, so righteousness was not in man, what made man righteous in the law it was the blood of animals!

Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

The old law was on a time table just as all the prophets spoke of prior to Christ coming to complete what God had started in his law given to Moses.

Please let us remember there were faithful people of God before the law was given to Moses. Subsequently, they were in no better or worst shape than all those under the law, why? Because the law perfected nothing, Christ is the one that perfects all things into the oneness of God by his precious priceless gift of his life given to us freely by love.

Matthew 15:18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. 15:19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

James. 3:7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.
3:8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 3:9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God. 3:10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing.

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James. 3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

What a strong warning to a honest hearted person that has come to realize that keeping the law by going to the temple having blood spell for their sins, knowing that they could not bring the evils of their hearts under control by laws, because sin was ever present in them like all mankind under sin have the same lust within their hearts. Such honesty should cause one to have faith in God's power and not of themselves through works of law!

Romans. 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."{Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21} 7:8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. 7:9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 7:10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death; 7:11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. 7:12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. 7:13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful. 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. 7:15 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. 7:16 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good. 7:17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good. 7:19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.
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7:20 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. 7:21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present. 7:22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man, 7:23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. 7:24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death? 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

Jesus also told them in the same talk that if they couldn't keep the law, and they taught others not to keep it they would be least in the kingdom! Least because their own righteousness wasn't enough it wasn't possible through an outward appearance of keeping the law to satisfy laws justice as they were all living, and had been taught. That is, there were living by an outwardly appearance of righteousness, but it wasn't enough.

Christ later in this same chapter proves they were not keeping the real law of the heart, it was their hearts that God was actually looking at. Here is Christ words about the real truth of us:

Matt. 5:21 "You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;'{Exodus 20:13} and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.' 5:22 But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause{NU omits "without a cause".} shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, 'Raca{"Raca" is an Aramaic insult, related to the word for "empty" and conveying the idea of empty-headedness.}!' shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.{or, Hell} 5:23 "If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, 5:24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
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Matt. 5:27 "You have heard that it was said, {TR adds "to the ancients,"} 'You shall not commit adultery;'{Exodus 20:14}
5:28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
5:29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.{or, Hell} 5:30 If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.{or, Hell}

In other words, did God law complete it's purpose? Without a doubt under a perfect court of law; can anyone of us stand in the law and declare to God we are not a sinner, and thus, we have keep his law!

Well, God say if we think that, or teach that, we are a liar, and God law has shut our mouth up in judgment that we cannot get out of not unless God forgives us our debt by the blood of Christ Jesus!

Nor can we have that gift undeserved if we are teaching the law which is a milestone that completes nothing it only exposes our sins hanging them upon others necks Christ called the little ones looking for complete forgiveness in him.

Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Matthew 18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge

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millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

There are but two yokes at Christ time, one was the law, a yoke that condemned all of us into death, and the yoke of Christ that removes the yoke of the law into eternal life and refreshment with Christ. The question is? Which one are we placing upon our students?

Galatians 5:1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.