Matthew 5-7 is the gospel for the kingdom.
What is the gospel of the kingdom?
Jesus Christ came as the king, he offered the kingdom to the Jewish people and the Jews rejected it.
Matthew 5-7 are laws, rules, and standards for the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:35 (KJV) – “Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.”
Matthew 5:14 (KJV) – “Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.”
These verses are talking about a city on the earth.
The kingdom of heaven is the physical earthly kingdom (hence why the kingdom of heaven can suffer violence and be taken by force).
The kingdom of heaven is the physical earthly kingdom (hence why the kingdom of heaven can suffer violence and be taken by force).
Matthew 11:12 (KJV) - "And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force."
In Matthew 5:17-18, Jesus is not saying to not change the law, he is saying nothing will pass until everything is fulfilled.
What is the fulfillment of the law?
Jesus Christ fulfilled the law!
Romans 10:4 (KJV) – “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.”
John 1:17 (KJV) – “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”
Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion was the fulfillment of the law:
Luke 24:44-48 (KJV) – “And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, 46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 And ye are witnesses of these things.”
Luke 24:44-48 lines up with Acts 13:29-31, and 1 Corinthians 15:3-4.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 (KJV) - "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures."
Acts 13:29-31 (KJV) - "And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre. 30 But God raised him from the dead: 31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people."
Jesus Christ’s crucifixion fulfilled the prophecies in Psalms 2:1-12, Psalms 16:9-11, Psalms 22:1-31, Psalms 69:1-36, Isaiah 53:1-12, Isaiah 61:1-3, Zechariah 12:10.
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