Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. Matthew 5:17
The new covenant given to us by Jesus is remembered each time we take communion or the Lord's table, and each time we read in the New Testament of the Bible. In keeping with our Lord's mission of salvation, He explains in our verse for today that He came to fulfill the old covenant. We know the old covenant from the Old Testament books of law and the prophets. In the sayings of Jesus, He gave to us a couple of chances to obey that fulfillment by what is known as the Golden Rule (Matt 7:12), and by the two greatest commandments (22:36-40). It does not require some dispensation of insight from above to know this, Jesus states it at the end of both scriptures. While we do like to search the scriptures to solve a mystery, we also like it simple, and Jesus simply states how to fulfill the older while living in the new covenant.
Praise God for the simple!
Bucky
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