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It means that Jesus did not set the Law aside unfulfilled. He fulfilled it perfectly.
If Jesus came and said, "ok, we had a law, but no one was able to keep it, so we're going to abolish it" that would be abolishing the Law. But that's not what He did. HE SUBMITTED HIMSELF TO EVERY PART OF THE LAW, because HE CAME TO FULFILL IT. And FULFILL IT HE DID>
AGAIN, I will repeat. ABOLISHMENT would have been if Jesus had cancelled the Law out without it's fulfillment taking place. But since it was fulfilled perfectly by HIM, it has not been abolished, it has been fulfilled.
Jesus is our perfect substitute. He took our place by fulfilling the just requirements of the Law for us, and He took our place by taking the just punishment of the Law that was due to us, He took it for us.
He took our sins and gave us His Righteousness. Including the righteousness that He accomplished for us by perfectly keeping the Law in His sinless Life.
Very simple, if you bother to take things in their proper context.
If Jesus came and said, "ok, we had a law, but no one was able to keep it, so we're going to abolish it" that would be abolishing the Law. But that's not what He did. HE SUBMITTED HIMSELF TO EVERY PART OF THE LAW, because HE CAME TO FULFILL IT. And FULFILL IT HE DID>
AGAIN, I will repeat. ABOLISHMENT would have been if Jesus had cancelled the Law out without it's fulfillment taking place. But since it was fulfilled perfectly by HIM, it has not been abolished, it has been fulfilled.
Jesus is our perfect substitute. He took our place by fulfilling the just requirements of the Law for us, and He took our place by taking the just punishment of the Law that was due to us, He took it for us.
He took our sins and gave us His Righteousness. Including the righteousness that He accomplished for us by perfectly keeping the Law in His sinless Life.
Very simple, if you bother to take things in their proper context.
it has not been abolished, it has been fulfilled.