Christ's Perfect Life

As Easter approaches, one thing that Christians need to remember other than Christ redeeming us by His sacrificial death on the cross then being raised to life on the third day, is His perfect life. Christ lived a life of perfect obedience to the Father.

In God's law, there are 613 commandments that Yahweh expected His people to follow yet, as most of you know, we could not keep the Law. James tells us that if we break one of God's commandments, we are a law breaker (James 2:10).

For any of us to achieve perfect righteousness before, we either must be perfectly obedient to God or someone else in our place. Jesus was the One who did that for us. Jesus said, "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill" (Matthew 5:17). He fulfilled all of God's law even the sacrificial system that is shown in Leviticus 1-7. 

The Apostle Paul wrote, "But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons" (Galatians 4:4-5). Mary, the mother of Jesus, was born under the law just as we are, yet she gave birth to the Perfect Son of God who was to redeem not only her, but us from the curse of the law. 

Jesus fulfilled the law by living a perfect life which theologians called, the active obedience of Christ. The Bible says, "For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life" (Romans 5:10). 

Romans 4:25 says, "He who was delivered over on account of our transgressions, and was raised on account of our justification." Christ was crucified for our sins on our behalf and was raised because God accepted His perfect sacrifice by living a perfect life. Christ perfectly obeyed God because He did not sin:

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21).