1. How Did Jesus “Fulfil” Yet Not “Destroy” the Law? (Matthew 5:17-20)
I. What Does It Mean to “Fulfil” the Law and Prophets?
A. “Fulfil” in Matthew 5:17 pleroo (plerÒv) –“1. to make full, to fill up,… a) to cause to abound, … 2) to render full, i.e. to complete… c.2. of sayings, promises, prophecies, to bring to pass, ratify, accomplish…” (Thayer).

2. How Did Jesus “Fulfil” Yet Not “Destroy” the Law? (Matthew 5:17-20)
I. What Does It Mean to “Fulfil” the Law and Prophets?
B. Jesus was under the Law (Galatians 4:4).
1. He was obedient to it without sin (Hebrews 4:15).

3. How Did Jesus “Fulfil” Yet Not “Destroy” the Law? (Matthew 5:17-20)
I. What Does It Mean to “Fulfil” the Law and Prophets?
C. His very birth into this world was a “fulfillment” of the Law and the Prophets.
1. He was the Prophet Moses promised (Deut. 18:15).
2. The Messiah of Daniel (Dan. 9:25, 26).

4. How Did Jesus “Fulfil” Yet Not “Destroy” the Law? (Matthew 5:17-20)
II. Would Jesus Set Aside the Law Or Leave It In Force?
A. The Law would not pass “Till all is fulfilled” (Matthew 5:18).

5. How Did Jesus “Fulfil” Yet Not “Destroy” the Law? (Matthew 5:17-20)
II. Would Jesus Set Aside the Law Or Leave It In Force?
B. “Heaven and earth” passages (Matt. 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33).
1. “…One tittle of the law to fail” (Luke 16:16-17).
2. The law was our “tutor” (Gal. 3:24, 25).

6. How Did Jesus “Fulfil” Yet Not “Destroy” the Law? (Matthew 5:17-20)
III. The Law Was Not Intended to Be In Force Forever.
A. Jeremiah 31: “new covenant.”
1. Jesus declares this covenant (Matt. 26:28; Mark 14:24; Luke 22:20).

7. How Did Jesus “Fulfil” Yet Not “Destroy” the Law? (Matthew 5:17-20)
III. The Law Was Not Intended to Be In Force Forever.
B. God “has made the first obsolete” (Hebrews 8:7-13).
1. “Takes away the first that He may establish the second” (Heb 10:9b).

8. How Did Jesus “Fulfil” Yet Not “Destroy” the Law? (Matthew 5:17-20)
III. The Law Was Not Intended to Be In Force Forever.
C. “Christ is the end of the Law” (Romans 10:4).

9. How Did Jesus “Fulfil” Yet Not “Destroy” the Law? (Matthew 5:17-20)
III. The Law Was Not Intended to Be In Force Forever.
D. “Not under law, but under grace” (Romans 6:14, 15).
1. “Under law” to Christ (I Cor. 9:21)
2. Follow- “law of Christ” (Gal. 6:2).