The New Covenant is entirely structured on the fulfillment of the Law. The New Testament brings the fulfillment of the Law, the meeting of the demands of the Law, into our state of being, as the sovereign work of YHWH!
Jer 31:33-34 (KJV) reads: < But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. >
Obviously, the writing and developing of the Law in fulfilled terms, in our inward parts, is entirely beyond human effort.
When Moses received the two tablets of the Testimony (on which were written the 10 commandments) in Exodus 31:18 and 32:16, we are told very clearly that the tablets were written by the Finger of GOD and the tablets were 100% the work of YHWH.
In 2 Corinthians 3:3 (NKJV) the tablets that Moses received are, in the fulfillment of the Law, proclaimed to be actual hearts of flesh within us. These hearts of flesh are called Epistles of CHRIST created in us by the SPIRIT of YHWH.
Hence the fulfillment of the Law is entirely configured in the Epistle of CHRIST personal to each one of us! That is, the fulfillment of the Law is absolutely of the actual fullness of CHRIST JESUS formed inside us, the peculiar work of YHWH in us, so that we will function in accordance with the demands of the Law.
It is as CHRIST is formed in us that the capacity to walk in accordance with the demands of the Law is brought into being within us. The entire capacity to live – which is engineered by YHWH (in the ministry of the HOLY SPIRIT) – is of CHRIST JESUS (Phil 4:13, 19, NKJV; Col 1:26-28), and is of nothing else.
The Law demands that we not steal (Ex 20:15). The fulfillment of the Law unveils as we put on CHRIST – by setting our hope on Him (1 John 3:3; 4:9) – and progressively becoming saints, created in JESUS CHRIST (Eph 2:10), who will never steal because we no longer have the nature, character, desire and thinking of a thief.
Under Law we would try our best not to be thieves. And Isaiah 64:6 declares that our righteousness is filthy rags.
In the fulfillment of the Law, we would choose to pursue our creation in JESUS CHRIST, as our persevering hope in MESSIAH manifests the substance of Him into our inward parts – and this is the work of the SPIRIT of YHWH that fulfills the demands of the Law.
The substance of YESHUA would meet every demand of the Law and progressively unveil us each as a new creation that is of YESHUA’s Image (Rom 8:29) and YESHUA’s Fullness (John 1:16-17) having His Nature and Character, as depicted in the fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT (see Gal 5:16-18, 22-23).
New Covenant formation and progression, in our inward parts through salvation, involves our putting on CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT, so that we are actually – as a consequence of GOD’s active intervention in our inward parts – set free from the Law of Sin and Death (Rom 8:2, 1-4).
The objective practice of the Law does not allow GOD to work in us; instead we seek to present to GOD our best efforts which will never match YHWH’s Righteousness, that actually brings the fulfillment of the Law into our being.
Yes we must obey GOD’s commandments! The problem is that we can’t do this; hence the absolute need for salvation!
Salvation is the process by which GOD creates us in the image of JESUS CHRIST, by perfecting the substance of the fullness of JESUS CHRIST into the fabric of our being.
Yes we can all observe a Sabbath day! Does the observance of the Sabbath day save us, heal us, deliver us, transform us? Or, is there another reality that flows in the fulfillment of the sabbth Rest in our inward parts?
In the fulfillment of the Sabbath Law, we enter into a state of rest in YHWH (see Heb 4:9-10; 12:22-24). This is a state of rest that is progressively developed in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT, so that we can rest in YHWH (in all that He has given in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT) and actualize the reality of living, moving and having our being in YHWH – by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS!
Which reality of the Sabbath is fruitful?
The Letter of the Law will never fulfill the Righteousness of GOD that develops the New Covenant into the fabric of our being.
What the Law and the Commandments give us are the prophetic realities (or, the prophetic keys of the Kingdom) we have to pursue and actualize by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS (Romans 8:2).
For example: we must pursue, by the HOLY SPIRIT, the capacities of CHRIST’s obedience in our being. Our attempts at obedience are nothing but a pretense, because we are all by nature, in ourselves, children of disobedience (Eph 2:1-3).
Brethren, be wise and pursue the prophetic that stands in the specifics of the fulfillment of the Law and the Commandments. Amen (see Rev 3:14b)! Beware of the legalists who will shut you under the Law and remove you from the Righteousness of YHWH.