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Righteous Exceeds the Pharisees Fulfillment - The Law of 100%

In Matthew 5:17-19, Yeshua said He did not come to destroy or do away with the law and the prophets - He came to 'fulfill' them. What, then, does it mean to 'fulfill' something? If I fill a glass of water up to the very brim, it means that I am unable to put any more into it - it is 100% full, it is complete. It does not mean that I throw the container away for then there would be nothing to hold the water from which to take a drink.


The word translated as abolish in Ephesians 2:15 is the Greek word katargeo and means
1) to render idle, unemployed, inactivate, inoperative
     a) to cause a person or thing to have no further efficiency
     b) to deprive of force, influence, power


There is nothing in this definition that connotates it no longer exists.

Yeshua said that except our righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees, we will in no way enter into the Kingdom of righteousness, peace and joy in Ruach haKodesh - He did not say that the Pharisees were not righteous. He castigated them for their hypocrisy in the manner in which they were attempting to appropriate that righteousness (Matthew 5:20, Romans 14:17.

As an example of what it means to 'fulfill' something - there are only three places in the gospels where Yeshua mentioned tithing (Matthew 23:23, Luke 11:42, Luke 18:9-14). In none of those instances did He say 'do not tithe' or 'do not give', but was speaking to the hypocrisy of the Pharisees in their manner of handling that ordinance. He told us that the new commandment He gives us is that we give in the manner in which He exampled by His giving to us. He gave everything to the Father to utilize as He wished and commanded us to do the same (John 13:34, Mark 12:29-31). It is the law of 100%. If you are giving 100%, then you have exceeded the law of 10% - the glass is full. You can not put any more into the glass. But, guess what? The 10% is still in there! You can not have 100% without the 10% for, if you throw away the 10%, you will only be left with 90% and it won't be complete - it won't be full.

So, how do we fulfill the part of the law that says if your son or daughter curses their mother or father, they are to be put to death? It is a rare exception in this day and age that a child has not cursed their parents at some point in their lives. We fulfill it in the law of 100%. Everybody can quote John 3:16 that says, "God so loved the world that He gave�" But, there are few I find who can quote 1John 3:16 with the same eloquence. If we lay our lives down for our children, not allowing our own desires for success and other things to crowd out the attention we need to pay to them, not allowing the world to raise them - we will have respectful children who honor their parents. It doesn't mean they won't make mistakes, it doesn't mean they will be flawless - it simply means they will love and honor you, they won't curse you. Every child is born with an innate sense of love toward their parents. It is in the cultivation of that love by exampling to them our Love in the same manner Yeshua first exampled to us His Love that they are saved. We don't fulfill the first covenant because we haven't allowed the New Covenant to exceed it. We don't allow the New Covenant pre-eminence in our lives (John 17:23, 1John 2:5). Instead of pressing in to understand what it means to fill the container - it just becomes easier to discard it entirely. We don't appreciate that the law was given to show us to teach us about the Essence of the Father and we throw it away (Galatians 3:24, Romans 3:31).

When Yeshua said He gave to us a new covenant, He pointedly said it did not do away with the first - it exceeds it, thus eclipsing the first and rendering it ineffective. When the moon eclipses the sun, it does not do away with the sun, it merely takes pre-eminence over the sun. By embracing the law of 100% in every aspect of our lives, we are fulfilling the first covenant - not doing away with it.