Freed From Freed For (Meyer)

One of the questions that every Christian should ask about their faith is “What do the Ten Commandments have to do with my faith-life today?” The reason you should ask that is that the Lord Jesus Himself said in Matthew five, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” So what does it mean that He is not “abolishing” but “fulfilling” them? To begin with, He fulfilled them for you! He fulfilled the Law, the whole Law, by living a perfect life and doing so...for you! But that being said, the Law, and specifically the Ten Commandments, remains God’s instructions for how we are to live in our in our daily relationship with Him and our daily relationship with others. Are they fulfilled? Are you freed from fulfilling them for yourself? Yes. But are they abolished? No. In other words, we are called as Christians to live in the tension of being freed from the Law, but freed for the Law all at the same time. Thanks be to God, we have indeed been “Freed From—Freed For”.