Over the past 1700 years billions of Bible owners have been deceived by Satan into believing his ultimate lie–THAT GOD NAILED THE TEN COMMANDMENT LAW TO THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST. This lie began with the first church (the church of Eden–my term). Having successfully and easily deceived Adam and Eve, the great deceiver set about capturing the hearts of the vast majority of their descendants and has done so until this day. Billions of his captives have been members of the “the church.” The identity of THE church depends on who is doing the identifying. In my youth we were sharecroppers who moved quite often. I recall that each church we joined was THE church, even though each was a just a different branch of the same denomination, which, of course, was THE denomination. Of course, all of the other churches in the area identified themselves as THE church and their denomination as THE denomination. Though they were all different, they all embraced some of the same “truths,” a list of which can be found on the home page of this website. The premiere “truth” that they all agreed on was that God had destroyed the Ten Commandment Law His Son had earlier written in stone and had placed in an ark being watched over by two powerful angels.

The question is: WHY DO SO MANY BIBLE-OWNING PEOPLE BELIEVE THE DEVIL’S LIE? In a recent series I discussed several passages that are routinely misunderstood (thanks to Satan) because they were written by the Apostle Paul, whose writings are indeed “hard to be understood.” Read the series using the key word–Understood. In this series we are going into “fine print” detail about one of the “wrested” (twisted) passages the Apostle Peter warned us about in Second Peter 3:16. Of all the Scripture passages used by Satan to denigrate God’s Word, specifically His Ten Commandment Law, Colossians 2:14 has been the most effective because it requires the most “fine print” study to understand. As Peter warned, unstable and unlearned men have made it mean what they wanted it to mean. With Peter’s warning in mind, we will now do what God commands us to do in order to learn His Truths. I have been asked why He forces us to do such “fine print” studying (Isa. 28:9-13) in order to grasp what He is telling us. I believe it is His way of separating church sheep from church goats, church wheat from church tares. Read Who Are God’s People? and “My People Called by My Name.” Key words–People and Called respectively.

Due to Peter’s warning, we will fill our minds with the teachings of Jesus and His apostles relative to the Ten Commandment Law before we delve into the focal passage of this posting. The most plainly written statement relative to the eternal nature of the Law was made by Jesus Himself as recorded in Matthew 5:7,8 where He said: “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the (writings of) the prophets; I have not come to destroy (them), but (rather) to FULFILL (them). For verily (truly) I say unto you, ‘UNTIL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS (AWAY), NOT ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE WILL PASS FROM THE LAW UNTIL ALL (OF THE LAW) IS FULFILLED.”

Unable to refute the first part of what Jesus said in that statement, Law-haters focused on one Word which they have wrested with almost 100% success. The word “fulfill” has become Satan’s most powerful Word weapon against God’s Law. He has convinced his followers that the word means “to bring to an end.” To refute that deadly error we will study several other instances in which Bible writers used the word “fulfill.” You will see that it means the exact opposite of what Law-haters proclaim that it means. In the Greek language in which the New Testament is written, the word “fulfill” is pleroo, which means to complete, to accomplish, to do to the utmost. With that in mind, examine the following statements where “fulfill” is used by Holy Spirit-inspired Biblical writers.

In Matthew 3:15 Jesus tells John that they must “fulfill all righteousness.” In Philippians 2;2 Paul tells the church to “fulfill my joy” by being of the same mind. In Colossians 1:25 and 4:17 Paul tells the church to “fulfill the Word of God” and to “fulfill the ministry of God.” In Galatians 6:2 he tells the church to “FULFILL THE LAW OF GOD.” No true Christian will say that Jesus meant that His Father would “nail to the cross” the very Law Jesus Himself spoke and wrote in stone if He Father was soon going to do away with it. Also, why did Jesus praise those who would teach those very same commandments (Mat. 5:19)? And when He was asked what one must do in order to inherit eternal life, why did He tell the inquisitor that receiving salvation was CONDITIONIONED UPON HIS KEEPING HIS TEN COMMANDMENT LAW? SAYING to him: “IF YOU WOULD ENTER INTO (ETERNAL) LIFE, KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS.” Then He voiced some of the individual commandments of the Law as examples. NOTICE THAT THE MAN COULD NOT BE SAVED BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO OBEY ONE OF THE COMMANDMENTS (Lk. 18:18-23). Later, the Apostle James affirmed Christ’s Words by warning us that if we break ONE of the commandments we break ALL OF THE LAW” (Jam. 1:10). This makes us guilty of iniquity–Lawlessness–which separates us from Christ (Mat. 7:21-23/ Isa. 59:2).

Truly, those who would do away with the Law of the Eternal are those identified in Second Corinthians 4:4 as unbelievers whose minds the god of this world (Satan) has blinded so that the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ can shine in them. Unregenerate men, Jesus tells us, love darkness rather than light (Jn. 3:19). L.J.