Jesus steps up to the mic in his first big public speech he's crushing it right everybody's

Jesus steps up to the mic in his first big public speech, he's crushing it, right? Everybody's like a great religion, you seem compelling, I like the miracles, I like all of this

blessed R stuff, I like that we have a role to play, salt and light.

This is terribly interesting.

Wow, yeah, as a Jewish person, I would very much like to sign up for this.

Oh, but wait a minute.

We already have a religion and it's very old and it's very important and we believe it's very true and they were right.

So no doubt, Jesus' original audience starts to formulate this question. Their heads like, ah, bummer.

I get this thing that's new, that sounds good, but we got this old thing, that's definitely true.

Ah, how do these two things relate together?

And in these very pivotal verses, verse 17 and verse 18 of Matthew chapter 5 Jesus addresses that in a way that starts to give an answer

but that would have required a lot more thought on the part of his original audience because this is

difficult language.

He says, don't think that I've come to abolish the law or the prophets.

I haven't come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.

I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear not the smallest letter not the least stroke of a pen

Will by any means disappear from the law until everything is accomplished

So what did he just say? everything is accomplished.

So what did he just say?

How many people in that audience

would have been like, yeah,

wait, I don't get it.

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