"All That He Commands" . . .He Has Done!

"And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD." (Exodus 19: 8)

Of course, this outrageous was swiftly deflated and punished, as the Israelites grew tired of waiting for Moses to return, and thus they created a Golden Calf to worship (Exodus 32)

In fact, the Law, from the Ten Commandments written on stone to the ceremonial law outlined in parchment, was never intended to make man holy:

"Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." (Romans 3: 20)

and

"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." (Galatians 3: 10)

Then what was the law for? Paul explains:

"Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God." (Romans 3: 19)

and

"But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

"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." (Galatians 3: 23-25)

What did the law teach us? That we could never measure up to God's righteousness by our own efforts, that we would not doubt for an instant that we could work our way to holiness based on our own merits, that we could receive:

"For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith." (Romans 1: 17)

In fact, the law has been fulfilled in Christ:

"And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me." (Luke 24: 44)


All that God has commanded, has been fulfilled in Christ, and His righteousness has been imparted to all who believe on Him:

"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

"That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (Romans 8: 2-4)

All that God commanded His people at Mount Sinai, Christ has fulfilled for us at the Cross!