Fulfillment

Tim Keller:

Early Christians in Rome had neighbors, and can you imagine this kind of conversation? This is really a conversation that could've easily happened.

The neighbor says, "Oh, you're a Christian. That's great. I love religion, all the pageantry, that's really wonderful. Where do you Christians go to temple? Where's your temple?

And the Christian would've said, "We don't have a temple. Jesus is our temple. He fulfilled it. He's the final temple. We don't need temples anymore.

And the neighbor would say, "You have no temple? Well where do your priests operate?

"We don't have priests," says the Christian." Jesus is our priest. He's the final priest, you see. He's put priests out of business. We don't need any mediators. He is the mediator."

"No temple. No priests. Where in the world do you do your sacrifices? Where do you do your rituals, the things that make you acceptable to God?"

And the Christian says, "Jesus is our sacrifice, so we don't have any more sacrifices."

Finally, the neighbor says, "What kind of a religion is this?"

And the Christian would say, "It's no kind of religion at all, because we didn't get a religion, we got a person."