Till All Be Fulfilled

Till All Be Fulfilled

For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.

Matthew 5:18

Christ is building a case for Himself as the Redeemer. As He does so, He establishes and maintains the validity of the Law of God in all that it requires of humanity. As He builds His case He speaks eloquently of the Law as permanent. He spoke, in the text we considered yesterday, about the fact that He had ‘not come to destroy’ the Law, ‘but to fulfill.’ Our text for today presents us with Christ’s statement that the Law would remain unchanged ‘till all be fulfilled.’ Christ is here, and in the next few verses, putting the hopes of His audience for success in keeping the Law farther and farther out of reach. He would continue to do so in a more definitive way later by saying that arrogance, unforgiveness, hatred, and lust, all internalized sins, were equal to murder, adultery and other outward sins. He is, in a de facto way, making it utterly impossible for His hearers to have any hope of succeeding. To what purpose does He do this? Paul answers this question in Galatians 3:24, ‘Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.’ The more we understand the rigid, unflinching, unswerving requirements of the Law, the more we will understand the need for Our Redeemer. The Law is permanent in all that it requires. Christ is superlative in all that He fulfills.

Our most Gracious and Holy Savior,
we rejoice to see the Law in Your Hands.
We praise You,
that You fulfill all that we could never fulfill ourselves.

Tomm Tice
where the Bush is Burning