Who, not what, makes us perfect

05/12/2011 Human Observations

Jesus  said ...

Matthew 5:48

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

I can accomplish this command from the Saviour of the world, when I believe that Jesus the Messiah IS the Saviour of the world, accepting His death as payment for my transgressions against the law of God.  The law provides in the first covenant with humankind the model or shadow of what will be accomplished in the eternal and heavenly covenant.

Hebrews 9:1

…verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.  ⁶Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle (the holy place), accomplishing the service of God. ⁷But into the second (the Holy of Holies) went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: ⁸The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing …⁹Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect …   ¹¹But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands,  ¹²neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.  ²²And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

Hebrews 10:1

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

Hebrews 9:²³It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves (purified) with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

So in our re-union with God, we are no longer condemned by the law, but now are justified by the law, because we accept the only biblically lawful and legally acceptable remedy to our transgressions against God; which is the sacrifice of the Lamb of God: Jesus, the fulfillment of biblical prophecy, our heavenly High Priest; the Son of God.