Tim Mackie

The fruit of it.

Holiness is about a life so dedicated to being in union with God's own life and power that you radiate with God's own uniqueness.

And then redemption is about

transferring someone out of a state of slavery and whatever bad, badness, and transferring them back into God's family and possession, goodness.

So in a way, the laws are

designed to do that.

And here, Paul's just saying Jesus is that.

He's all those things in human form.

And I guess the way the apostles did it, the way the apostle Paul said was that the pinnacle moment of all those values coming together

into one event is when Jesus surrenders his life over to death, and when he's hanging on the cross, issuing God's forgiveness to the people killing him.

Something about that moment is like the moment, which he calls a display of God's love.

Yeah, so Jesus said it and Paul also said it, love fulfills the law.

So I'm not trying to be trite and just saying love, it's about love.

But like the life story of Jesus and leading up to the cross, there is something there about Jesus elevating the well-being of others, not just equal to himself, but above his own well-being.

There's something there.

that the laws themselves are all pointing us towards, which if we were to boil it down to one value and look to one person's life to incarnate that value, I can't think of any better story to tell than the story of Jesus.

I think that's what it means to be a Christian, is to see Jesus fulfilling the law in that way.

Yeah.

Or someone.

Yes.