What is The Law and The Prophets?

When Jesus said He came to "fulfill the Law and the Prophets," He was referring to the entirety of the old Testament scripture.

Saying “The Law and The Prophets” together is another way of saying “The Old Testament”. In the time of Jesus it was not called “The Old Testament” by anyone as The New Testament has not been written, it was called “The Law and The Prophets”.

Why did Christ abolish the Law in his flesh?

Christ abolished the Law in His flesh to create one new man in Himself, reconciling us to God and making peace, by providing a way for man to fulfill the righteousness of the Law without being under the Law. If Those in Christ are not under the Law, then they cannot transgress it.

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Ephesians 2:15: "Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace."

Romans 4:14-15: "For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect, because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression."

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We are no longer under the law

According to Christ and the Apostles, we died to the law and are no longer under it. We are under grace, for grace is the opposite of law.

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Galatians 5:18: "But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law."

Romans 6:14: "For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”

Romans 7:4-6: "Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ… now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter."

Romans 10:4: "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth."

Colossians 2:14: “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross."

Galatians 3:24-25: "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster."

Hebrews 8:13: "In that He says, 'A new covenant,' He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.”

2 Corinthians 3:7-9: "But if the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance... For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory."

Matthew 5:17: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. **For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."

Galatians 3:19: "Why then serve the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made."

Galatians 2:19-21: "For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me

Galatians 5:1-4: "Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.

Hebrews 10:9-10: "Then He said, ‘Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.’ He takes away the first that He may establish the second. By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."

Galatians 4:4-5: "But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons."

Galatians 4:9-11: "But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? You observe days and months and seasons and years. I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain."

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