But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law Gal 4:4.
What is the importance and significance, of Jesus being born under the law?
In other words why did Jesus need to be born under the law and why is his life lived under the law good news for us?
have you ever noticed Jesus life before this day isn’t really a subject matter in scriptire ?
“Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.”
Luke 3:21-22 KJV
we learn of Jesus
birth of course but then mostly we see Jesus again when John began baptizing the people. Jesus comes and gets baptized by John and the Holy Spirit is put on him and Gods voice announces “ this is my son “
at this point this happens
“Now
after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying,
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.”
Mark 1:14-15 KJV
it’s at this point the New Testament is beginning to be spoken forth by God himself. And at the point Jesus receives the Holy Ghost Jesus is not under any law he is himself giving his law
he was born of Israel which is all
Under law , when he was baptized it was where the Old Testament ceases its authority because now the authority is made flesh and walking among men and speaking his word to them the New Testament begins when Jesus begins to be set forth forever according to what Jesus preached in the gospel.
jesus was born and lived sinless under the law Until his baptism at that point he’s the law giver at that point he’s teaching something far better than the law carved in stone for Israel
there’s a transition that happens when Jesus is baptized there’s a shift from Moses the old mediators word to this eternal word
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but
my words shall not pass away.”
Matthew 24:35
If Jesus was born in the flesh then he’s born under the law all flesh is subject to it but the spirit is not subject to Moses law the spirit is born of Christ and the gospel and is not under law
“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born again, he cannot see
the kingdom of God.
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of
the flesh is flesh; and that which is
born of the Spirit is spirit.”
John 3:3, 5-6 KJV
because of flesh he was born under law but because of the spirit he overcame the flesh which is subject to The law
this is applicable To us
“This I say then,
Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall
not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
For the
flesh lusteth
against the Spirit, and the
Spirit against the flesh: and these are
contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
But
if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.”
Galatians 5:16-18 KJV
If we are led by this testament word
“
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing:
the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
John 6:63 KJV
then we aren’t under Moses word which is
commanding the corrupt flesh not to sin that doesn’t work because of this
See there’s a change that has to happen
“Wherefore,
my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ;
that ye should be
married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead,
that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
For
when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
But
now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit,
and
not in the oldness of the letter.”
Romans 7:4-6 KJV
We have to let go of Moses testament being our law and accept that Jesus gospel is our law it’s not written on stones but on our hearts because as we hear we believe.
when we accept the gospel we are having the blinders of Moses law pertaining to corrupt flesh removed and seeing God for who he is and what he says
“and not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that
the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
but
their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which
vail is done away in Christ.
But even
unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.”
2 Corinthians 3:13-16 KJV
Looking at God through Moses law is to not really see him because of the accusation the law makes against every sin we have ever committed
to accept Jesus Christ and the gospel is to accept God and his eternal word.
anyone born of flesh in Israel was under Moses law so Jesus was certainly born under the law , if you notice there’s an end to the law and it’s found right where the gospel begins and ends