Full Meaning!


“Don’t suppose that I came to do away with the Law and the Prophets. I did not come to do away with them, but to give them their full meaning.
Heaven and earth may disappear. But I promise you that not even a period of comma will ever disappear from the Law. Everything in it must happen.”

Matthew 5:17-18

When we label the Bible as “Old” and “New” Testaments we inject them with meaning that comes from our dictionary, not from scripture itself.

Jesus spoke of this issue when He said “don’t suppose that I came to do away with the Law and the Prophets.”

As a child I viewed the Old Testament time as “God’s rough draft.” He tried the Garden of Eden and that didn’t work out too well. It seems He planted one too many trees in Eden. It all went downhill from there and with the exception of Noah and his family, God wiped out the entire earth. Later God confused languages and scattered the people around the earth after they started building the Tower of Babel.

Finally, Jesus came and paid the price for our sins and brought all who would believe in Him back to God.

But the Old Testament was not God’s failed attempt. His purpose and plan were fully formed even before Adam and Eve took the fatal bite of fruit!

The New Testament was not God’s second attempt to bring man into fellowship with Him. The New Testament is the culmination of God’s purpose with man on this earth.

If a man took all of his money out of one bank and walked across the street to open a new account would he say: “I’m opening a new bank account so I will not be putting any of my “old money” in the new account. That money was in the old account and so I will just throw it away.”

Only a fool would say such a thing.

The treasure of the Old Testament is given its full meaning in the Glory of the New Testament. Jesus gave the Law and the Prophets their full meaning!