by John S Foster

Created on: February 12, 2010   Last Updated: February 13, 2010

Romans 13:10 Love does no wrong to one's neighbor [it never hurts anybody]. Therefore love meets all the requirements and is the fulfilling of the Law.

To answer the question, how did Jesus fulfill the law? We would have to understand the entirety of the Bible. For the Bible from the Old Testament to the New Testament we are told of this very subject.

Let us look past at what occurred in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve lost communion with God and were thrust into a sinful world and the growth of human life and all that is involved, and look first at the story of the Jewish people and Moses, where the Law was first given.

This story gives a lot of symbolism and truth for us today in what God was going to do, did do, and is still doing for the world at large. Consider John 3:16, a familiar verse to most people, but with little understanding, and it is really the basis of how Jesus fulfilled the Law. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. Bottom line is God loves us. Now that is a huge statement.

How often are we taught that God is an angry God and that His wrath will come upon you and all the negative connotations of misunderstanding zealots?

When the opposite is actually true. We live in the greatest of Gods’ dispensation of times. A time of Gods’ Grace and Mercy.

Also John 3:16 tells us that He so loved the world. That’s everybody. No matter what status we hold, no matter what color we are, where we live etc.

God knows the condition of man's heart and that by ourselves we cannot survive.

God gave us the Law, the Commandments, in order that we would be able to govern ourselves. God placed a formula, a priority list as to how to live a fruitful life. Exodus 20.

He tells us first of all that He is our source and that we need to treat that source (God) with reverence and that no other source will do or can do like Him. God then tells us how we should treat one another, and finally the Commandments shows us that we are flawed in our sins and that we are in need of Him. And without Him we will perish.

In the story of the Exodus from Egypt. The Jewish people are a symbol of mankind; Egypt a symbol of sin and worldly things. And the exodus a symbol of deliverance from the constraints of a sinful world.

Notice I said the Jewish people are a symbol of mankind. We know the Jewish people as Gods’ chosen people. And again this is an example of symbolism. Consider John 3:16.  Also: 2 Peter 3:9 b which says

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