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Originally Posted by aron
Regarding Deuteronomy, I feel that the [only] one who kept the law was Jesus Christ. He was(is) the King, the Law-Giver, and as such was the Law-Keeper. Only he could speak to Moses' law, because Moses' law spoke of him. What was impossible for you or I (or Paul, or John) was not only possible but was his destiny. And as such a one, his 'royal law' supersedes all else for us. Everything feeds into Jesus Christ and everything comes out of Jesus Christ. He is the singularity, unique. He is 'the' Christ. His word is 'the' law.
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Deuteronomy and the NT is a bit of a sidebar from Bear Bear's initial post, so I'll make my comments here, as a sidebar.
Deuteronomy 17 speaks of the King, who keeps God's Law.
Deut 17:18 “Now it shall come about when he [the King] sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. 19 And it shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear [and worship] the Lord his God [with awe-filled reverence and profound respect], by carefully obeying (keeping foremost in his thoughts and actively doing) all the words of this law and these statutes, 20 so that his heart will not be lifted up above his countrymen [by a false sense of self-importance and self-reliance] and that he will not turn away (deviate) from the commandment, to the right or to the left, so that he and his sons may continue [to reign] for a long time in his kingdom in Israel." (Amplified version).
Note that the King keeps "all" the laws.
Now, look at Psalm 1: 1-3 Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
Is it coincidence that Psalm 1 is followed by Psalm 2? Not if the Righteous Man is the Son of God. Seems that they form a conceptual pair.
"Christ is the end of the law" not because he ignored it but because he kept it. Therefore it is not impossible for a man to live in the reality of Psalm 1. Jesus Christ did it.