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[260.26 --> 263.60] They attach to him this desire for change, right?
[263.60 --> 268.48] Out with the old, in with the new, new revolutionary leader who's going to do something for us.
[269.70 --> 271.50] And then Jesus comes onto the scene.
[272.40 --> 273.94] And he starts talking about himself.
[274.24 --> 276.10] And he knows they're missing the mark.
[276.60 --> 281.50] And you can tell he knows they're missing the mark because the first thing he says in the Sermon on the Mount,
[281.58 --> 283.22] really where he talks about himself is,
[283.88 --> 287.56] Do not think that I have come, right?
[287.56 --> 293.94] But that's Jesus' way of saying, I know that you see me, and I know that you misunderstand my purpose,
[294.40 --> 298.04] my mission, and what I've come to accomplish for my world and for my people.
[298.96 --> 304.46] And one of the things that seems evident from our passage that they're hoping or thinking Jesus will bring
[304.46 --> 307.84] is a change to how they understand the Old Testament law and prophets.
[307.84 --> 314.04] And so Jesus says to them, I have not come to abolish the law and the prophets, but to fulfill them.
[314.56 --> 318.64] And it seems to be that people are hoping, well, there's this new prophet, there's this new leader,
[318.76 --> 320.26] he's bringing revolutionary further.
[320.66 --> 325.58] We don't need anymore this old teaching, these old laws, these old prophetic words.
[325.78 --> 327.58] We have Jesus now, right?
[327.82 --> 329.74] In with the new, out with the old.
[330.44 --> 332.02] And these are the words Jesus says to them.
[332.04 --> 333.10] I'll read it in verse 17.
[333.10 --> 338.42] He says, I have not come to abolish the law and the prophets, but to fulfill them.
[339.42 --> 343.98] Truly, I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, the least stroke of a pen
[343.98 --> 347.92] will by any means disappear from the law until everything is accomplished.
[349.12 --> 351.94] And we do well to pause here and say, what does Jesus mean?
[352.46 --> 354.12] In fact, one scholar writes about this verse.
[354.22 --> 359.20] He says, this is one of the most important verses in the Bible about how to read the Old Testament.
[359.98 --> 360.94] And here's my summary.
[360.94 --> 365.42] If some of what I say later is a bit confusing, my summary of this passage is this.
[366.06 --> 371.60] Jesus is saying, I am not abolishing the teaching and the instruction of the Old Testament.
[372.38 --> 375.26] I'm accomplishing what it set out to do.
[375.80 --> 379.40] I'm not putting away with and disregarding the words of the prophets.
[379.90 --> 384.28] I'm fulfilling what they've all been speaking about.
[385.14 --> 386.68] And in short, and I'll say this again,
[386.68 --> 395.24] the law and the prophets were given in the Old Testament to form a people who loved God and loved their neighbor.
[396.06 --> 397.98] And it never accomplished that because of sin.
[398.08 --> 405.56] And then Jesus comes and says, I have been sent to accomplish what the law could not do or the prophets could not do.
[405.64 --> 408.26] By the power of God, I will do it through the cross.
[408.78 --> 409.46] Does that make sense?
[409.46 --> 416.30] What the law and the prophets could not do, Jesus would now accomplish and fulfill through his life, death, and resurrection.
[416.30 --> 426.54] Ever since Jesus' time, many people, many Christian leaders, have tried to do away with the Old Testament.
[426.70 --> 427.34] Did you know this?
[427.96 --> 431.22] In the second century already, there's a Christian leader by the name of Marcion.
[431.86 --> 434.70] And he set out on this task of rewriting the Bible.
[434.80 --> 438.14] And it's never a good thing, by the way, when an individual at any point in history says,
[438.22 --> 438.96] you know what I'm going to do?
[439.10 --> 440.30] I'm going to rewrite the Bible.
[440.48 --> 441.32] That's a red flag.
[441.32 --> 445.80] And what he wanted to do is create a version of just the New Testament, no Old Testament,
[445.94 --> 448.74] and then eliminate all the references to the Old Testament.
[448.82 --> 450.06] Because we don't need that anymore, right?
[450.08 --> 451.00] That's the old stuff.
[451.20 --> 452.20] We have Jesus now.
[452.40 --> 455.40] And he ended up with a very, very thin Bible.
[455.92 --> 462.62] Because if you know the New Testament, it is loaded with scriptural references and allusions to the Old Testament.
[463.34 --> 467.60] In fact, I want to put up on a screen here an image that was put together by a researcher.
[467.70 --> 468.66] Has anyone seen this, by the way?
[468.66 --> 472.40] It kind of made its rounds on social media a couple years ago.
[473.00 --> 477.36] But what you need to know is on the bottom, it represents all the 66 books of the Bible.
[477.58 --> 479.18] From Genesis all the way to Revelation.
[479.30 --> 481.62] Those are all the Bible verses, all passages.
[482.12 --> 487.64] And all those little rings on the top are the references between the Old and the New Testament.
[488.92 --> 493.88] And just marvel with me how many references there are.
[493.88 --> 495.32] In fact, I'll give you the exact number.
[495.44 --> 501.26] It's 63,779 times the Bible weaves itself together.
[502.20 --> 506.70] And the researcher who did this work stood back after it was all said and done and said,
[506.86 --> 507.94] this is marvelous.
[508.64 --> 513.00] Like, if you ever want to see a picture that shows how this is not just a human book,
[513.08 --> 516.28] but it's put together by the defined authority of God, this is it.
[516.28 --> 523.56] Like, the coherence and the interweaving and the beautiful coherence of the whole story points to God saying,
[523.78 --> 525.16] this is the true story of the whole world.
[525.60 --> 530.56] This is my living word, divinely inspired by the Spirit, trustworthy and true.
[530.98 --> 531.72] That's the Bible.
[532.70 --> 538.62] But to the point of our passage, it also shows us very well how you can't just get the middle and that on
[538.62 --> 540.68] without all the stuff that comes before it, right?
[541.22 --> 543.86] The New Testament depends on the Old Testament.
[543.86 --> 548.20] It's the story leading up to and making sense of why Jesus came.
[548.54 --> 551.96] You can't just lop it off in the middle and get rid of everything that came in the beginning.
[553.18 --> 554.36] And I'll add this.
[555.28 --> 562.98] Jesus himself had a very high view and love for the Old Testament, right?
[563.04 --> 565.82] When Jesus is tempted by the devil, what does he respond to the devil with?
[566.38 --> 567.02] The Scriptures.
[567.02 --> 574.52] When Jesus is in agony on the cross and he's giving up his life for the world, what's the words that come out of his mouth?
[575.08 --> 575.82] The Psalms.
[576.38 --> 579.50] Psalm 22, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
[579.84 --> 581.24] Jesus loved the word.
[581.94 --> 583.10] He loved the Old Testament.
[583.20 --> 586.66] In fact, in 2 Timothy, when it talks about all Scripture being God-breathed,
[586.90 --> 591.04] the Scripture they're talking about in that passage is the Old Testament story.
[591.04 --> 594.76] These Scriptures are God's gift to us.
[595.20 --> 597.32] The law is God's gift to us.
[597.42 --> 599.44] The prophets are God's gift to us.
[599.50 --> 601.86] And Jesus says, we do not do away with them.
[602.50 --> 604.78] I've been sent to fulfill them.
[606.42 --> 611.70] And on the heels of saying he's come to fulfill and accomplish them, he gives a warning, doesn't he?
[612.32 --> 616.46] Let me read for us in verse 19 the warning he gives, especially to teachers and leaders.
[616.46 --> 625.08] Anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven.
[625.48 --> 631.34] But whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
[632.14 --> 633.96] You know, that's a pretty strong warning, isn't it?
[634.50 --> 639.78] If we feel like, hey, we can just kind of cherry pick the verses we like that speak to us and do away with the others
[639.78 --> 643.12] or keep the New Testament and get rid of the old, Jesus says, watch out.