Hey, my friends, it's Matt.

This is a 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and I don't remember when it was.

It was a while back you and I were talking about how there are certain verbs in the English language, action words, that are very specific.

And they almost only ever get used on a couple of specific things. So, for example, if I say hoist, what do you hoist? Well, I mean,

the sales, a flag, a trophy, like the Stanley Cup, but that's about it. You just don't use

that word for most things. It's very specific. Okay. Renegg, what do you what do you do that with it's on a deal or a

promise right you go back on it how about spruce up what do you spruce up well the house or the living

room or the kitchen that's it okay how about wax what do you wax obviously the correct

answer is a chump like a candle how about fulfill fulfill what does that go with i mean i think of a promise right

you say you were going to do something and then you do it you You fulfilled that or you fulfill an obligation. I guess that would work as well. I have to do this. It might not be my first choice. But I saw it through. I fulfilled my duty. You would say duty as well. But to fulfill the law, that's a weird phrase, right? It doesn't seem like it agrees.

Like, hoist the cranberry sauce. Huh? This is, even if you lift cranberry sauce, you don't say hoist.

Oh, you hoist an engine, too. Hoist. Yeah, fulfill the law. That's a weird one. And in Matthew

517, I mean, really, one of the most crucial verses of the entire New Testament and the Bible and Christianity, kind of the glue, the bridge between the Old New Testament.

Matthew 517, it's in the sermon on the Mount. It's right at the beginning of the New Testament. It's Jesus having just laid out some of the descriptions of what the kingdom of heaven is like, and it sounds really good and no doubt his followers and even his soon-to-be critics or listening to this description.

And they're like, is this a new religion?

Because we already have one.

What does this mean for the law and the prophets?

The law would mean like the rules and everything but would also mean

the whole story of the old testament what does it mean for all of that and jesus says don't think

that i have come to abolish the law or the prophets i have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them

well how does one fulfill a law because i don't think that verb makes sense if the speed limit is 55 and I do 55.

I didn't fulfill the law. I obeyed the law. I kept the law. I honored the law. I did the law. That's pretty flat writing, but it seems better than fulfilled.

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