'Rightly Dividing the Word'
Exo 12:14 'So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.
When God made the Old Covenant with the Israelites, many requirements under the Mosaic law such as some feasts and Sabbath were to be observed as everlasting ordinances.
The Almighty God, Himself, who is from everlasting to everlasting, alone can fulfil these requirements with everlasting ordinances.
So the Word was made flesh and born under the law so that He would also be able to fulfil all the requirements with everlasting ordinances under the Mosaic law if He could faithfully keep them.
Gal 4:4-5 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
Perfection by Complete Obedience
Heb 5:7-9 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,
While Jesus was still in the flesh, He submitted Himself to the Father. He was perfected because of His complete obedience to God in accepting suffering and even the death on the cross.
Similarly, Christians can be perfected with their complete obedience to God and His commandments.
Phi 2:5-8 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
Religious Law Fulfilled
Jesus having perfected Himself as the perfect Temple of God became the foundation for every Christian to build his own temple of God within his physical body.
Because of His obedience unto death, Jesus was perfected to become:-
1. Perfect Lamb of God so that after His death on the cross, He gave us
a) His precious blood which can cleansed all sins and unrighteousness at our confession
b) His pure water (word of life), which can sanctify all our wickedness and evil conscience when we read and believe His word.
c) His resurrected Spirit who can transform us into His image when we obey His commandments.
2. Perfect Priesthood
Heb 7:12,17 For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there is also a change of the law... For He testifies: "You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek."
(Heb 5, 7)
3. The Fulfillments of all the requirements, Sabbaths and Feasts observed by the Israelites before the temple of God.
Social and Moral Law Fulfilled
Heb 7:18-19 For on the one hand there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness, for the law made nothing perfect; on the other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
Jesus died for His enemies, thereby replacing the weaker commandments in the law with His new commandment.
John 15:12 "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you."
Complete Fulfillment of Law
Every Israelite or Jew who is a Christian, has already fulfilled the Mosaic law (including all those with everlasting ordinances). Just like any other Christian, he must not observe the Sabbath nor feast nor follow any of the Mosaic law otherwise he will fall out of God's grace by his Unbelief - faithlessness in the complete work of Jesus on the cross.
Gal 5:4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.
