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What Must I Do To Be Saved?

  

FROM: 3/17/02 Radio Program

Question: "Luke 16:17- 'Easier For Heaven And Earth To Pass Away Than For One Tittle Of The Law To Fail.' What Are They Talking About? Is This The Ten Commandments?"

Answer:

Let us read Luke 16:16-17: "The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail."

What Christ was teaching on this occasion was that God's words were not going to fail. It is easier for Heaven and earth to pass away than for the most minute point of the Law to fail. What was "the Law"? Was this strictly the Ten Commandments? No, it stood for all of the Law of Moses, that Old Testament law under which they lived. A parallel to this verse is Matthew 5:18, where our Lord said, "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." To be "fulfilled" is to be "filled full"! In other words, Christ came to fulfill (fill full) all the prophecies concerning Him. Christ told His apostles before He ascended back to Heaven: "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). When this occurred, then the Old Law passed away (was fulfilled Acts 13:29), and a new law came into effect (II Corinthians 3:13-14; Matthew 5:18).

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