02/21/2021 – Day 280 – Hebrews 5 – 7/ 3 of ?// 7: 18, 19 “Bible contradiction?”
Here is the footnote to 7: 18-19 : “Skeptics claim that this passage and in Ephesians 2: 13-15 abolish the Law, in contradiction to Matthew 5:17: “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
The skeptic has no understanding of the reason Christ suffered and died. He came to fulfill the Law so that that those who trust in Him could be justified (declared not guilty and made clean in the sight of God).
Think of thwo brothers who each have large court fines. They have no money and are about to be sentenced to prison. Their kingly fathers loves them and pays their fines. He satisfies the demands of the Law by fulfilling the courts requirements. Both men are then free to go. However, one of them refuses to accept the payment. He is therefore still under the law’s penalty and is thrown in prison even though the father satisfied the law’s demand through his payment.
Jesus didn’t come to do away with the moral Law. It is eternal and will be the standard of judgment on Judgment Day (see Ezekiel 44:24 comment) He came to satisfy its demands for thso who trust Him- making provision for our forgiveness by paying our fine in his life’s blood.
Christians (both Jew and Gentile) are no longer under the wrath of the Law, because they trust in Jesus Christ. However, those who are outside of Christ (refusing his blood payment) are still under its wrath (see John 3:36).”
Soli Deo Gloria!