{"id":1224,"date":"2021-08-02T07:26:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T12:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2021-08-02T07:26:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T12:26:30","slug":"jesus-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/02\/jesus-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cThink not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.<\/strong>\u201d
Matthew 5:17 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

When Jesus came, He did not take away the importance of the\nOld Testament Law and Prophets; instead, He fulfilled them. This means He\ncompleted them, or made them completely perfect. \u201cThink not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not\ncome to destroy, but to fulfill<\/strong>\u201d (Matthew 5:17). Fulfill<\/em><\/strong> means \u201cto fill out;\ncomplete or made them perfect; to accomplish an end.\u201d Jesus came to complete\n(fulfill) the promise God made to Adam and Eve (and all of mankind) in the\ngarden after they sinned. It was in the garden that God first promised that One\nwould come and deliver man from his sin. When Jesus came, He did not take away\nthe importance of the Old Testament Law and Prophets, for He accomplished what\nGod required of Him. This reveals to us the importance of the Old Testament Law\nand Prophets in that Jesus fulfilled the words spoken and preached therein. In\naccomplishing all of the requirements found in the Old Testament, Jesus was the\nonly one qualified, to be the perfect sacrifice to appease the wrath of a just\nand righteous God. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus completed everything He came to accomplish. After His\nresurrection, Jesus revealed Himself to His disciples. \u201c44. And he said unto\nthem, These are<\/em> the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with\nyou, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses,\nand in<\/em> the prophets, and in<\/em> the psalms, concerning me. 45.\nThen opened he their understanding, that they might understand the\nscriptures, 46. And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it\nbehoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47. And\nthat repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all\nnations, beginning at <\/strong>Jerusalem<\/strong>. <\/strong>48. And ye are witnesses of these things<\/strong>\u201d\n(Luke 24:44-48).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is very important to read God\u2019s Word and be in a good\nBible study where you can learn more about Jesus. One important goal each\nChristian should have is to know and understand more about the Old Testament\n(and the New Testament). The more you learn about the Bible, the more you begin\nto understand that it is so much more than just a collection of stories about\npeople who lived long ago. In reading and studying the Old Testament in the\nBible, you can search and find out why the people who lived in those times\nwanted to obey God. It helps you understand how they knew God would one day\nsend Jesus. You can see what happened to His people when they obeyed God\u2019s\nWord, and even what happened when they forgot God\u2019s Word. As you read the New\nTestament, you begin to recognize when people began to understand that Jesus\nwas the One who was to come (the One that was told of in the Old Testament).\nThese events will be an encouragement to you that God is with those who love\nHim, those who seek to please Him, and that He takes care of His people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the New Testament, we can read that there was a great plot\nto kill Paul because He lived as a Christian, preaching Jesus to the lost\n(those who did not believe in Jesus). Paul, the apostle, used this in his\ndefense before Festus: \u201cBut this I\nconfess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the\nGod of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the\nprophets<\/strong>\u201d (Acts 24:14).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He believed all things written in the Law and Prophets\nthat told of Jesus.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Jesus came, He did not take away the importance of the Old Testament Law and Prophets; instead, He fulfilled them. This means He completed them, or made them completely perfect. \u201cThink not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill\u201d (Matthew 5:17). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[383,736,80,33,73,403],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-with-verse-and-blog","tag-believe","tag-fulfill","tag-jesus","tag-law","tag-old-testament","tag-prophets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}