>>21295639Alright, look here and I will offer my humle view.
>Psalm 89:34This is the covenant unto the seed of David; established through the Lord Jesus Christ.
>How do you fulfill a contract, or law, you do themYes; Christ Jesus fulfilled the law Himself and finished His work - His atonement - upon the cross. Now the law remains until His second coming; condemning all that place their salvation in it. All break the law and are thus rendered guilty of the entire law, as it is written.
Matthew 7:21-22 is demonstrating how those men were trusting in their works for salvation and not Jesus' finished work upon the cross.
They make excuses for themselves; they did this, they did that. Not what the Lord has done for them; nor what the Lord has promised.
John 6:27
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.