In Christ, the Law is fulfilled in us but not by us

Believers, because no one can be made righteous in God's sight by keeping the Law (Romans 3:20;) because we cannot have one leg on Mt. Sinai and the other on Mt. Zion (Hebrews 12:18-22;) because we cannot say "I will do my best and Jesus will understand and do the rest (law and grace don't mix;") because "without faith it is impossible to please God" & "the Law is not of faith" so we can never please God with our obedience to the Law; because "the wages of sin is death," because "all have sinned," and above all, because "God so loved the world," our Saviour Jesus came as a Man, took our curse and punishment and died the death that we should have died and in doing so fulfilled ALL of the righteous requirements of the Law (Handwriting that was against us)

Our Saviour Jesus Christ did not come to destroy the Law or discard it as no longer important. On the contrary, His death magnified the Law as God's standard of righteousness and through Him, the Law is fulfilled in us; we are free from all things that we could not be delivered from by the Law of Moses- Sin, the curse and death!

If you are under a contract to repay a loan to a bank and you have finished paying, would you still continue to pay? No! You don't stop paying because you tore up the contract. You stop paying because you are no longer under obligation to pay; because you have finished paying! Christ has overpaid our debt to the Law! Your creditor can never demand more payment when you have satisfied every condition of the contract. Yet many believers still tie themselves up to a contract (the Law) that has been paid in full by our Redeemer, thinking that this is how to maintain right-standing with God!

Believers, in Christ, the Law is fulfilled in us, but not by us. Bear in mind that those who try to keep the Law to get right with God have been cut off from Christ (Galatians 5:4). Law and grace can't mix. In Revelation 3:15-16, Our Lord Jesus Christ says:

"I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth."

CHRIST WOULD RATHER WE WERE HOT OR COLD: totally under grace where we get to live right and reign in life or totally under the Law in its pristine condition where we have to cut off limbs that cause us to sin and where breaking one law is equal to breaking all according to James 2:10. This way, people will realise the futility of trying to attain righteousness by keeping the Law and be driven to His grace!

Believers, Christ has fulfilled all of the righteous demands that the Law made of us. As the righteousness of God in Christ, not standing in our own righteousness that comes from obeying the law (filthy rags) but that which we receive as a gift in Christ (Romans 5:17 and 2 Corinthians 5:21,) our Heavenly Father does not observe sin in us. He sees us as 100% righteous, even when we sin!

But His grace is not a license to sin! God hates sin but loves the sinner, much like (but much more than) a loving father who happens to be an oncologist hates the cancer in a beloved child. So what does He do? He fills us with the only effective sin "chemo" available to the world - His Spirit! Other therapies (more laws, rules and regulations, self-will and the determination to stop sinning, etc) can never work! Just check out what happened when Peter boasted in his own strength that he would never deny our Saviour. 

By our Lord's Spirit we are transformed to the image of His glory, as it is written in 2 Corinthians 3:18-

"But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord."

We get to live right without knowing how or even being conscious of it, yet not us but Christ in us.

With God's gift of righteousness comes no condemnation. It is our Lord's "Neither do I condemn you" that makes us "go and sin no more."

Believe Right and you will Live Right!