30.Why did God shut up all things and people under sin?

So that in Christ, God may create a new Kingdom. No person ever entered the Kingdom of God until Christ rose from the dead. Christ is the Firstborn of the Kingdom, the Beginning of the new creation.

All things of the Kingdom of God are in Christ and of Christ. If someone were able to gain the approval of God by mastering the requirements of the Law of Moses, Christ would not be all and in all. There would be another person who was competing with Christ in the area of righteousness.

No human being is able to keep the Law of Moses. We all are brought to the one Person who is able to keep the Law perfectly and to redeem us from sin—Christ. We receive the righteousness of God, and the benefits of the Abrahamic inheritance, by placing all our trust in Christ.

There have been a few Orthodox rabbis who have kept the Law so perfectly that their followers have mused whether they might be Christ. The Jewish men so regarded indeed were remarkable in their observance of the Law. But when compared with the majesty of Jesus of Nazareth, with His wisdom, compassion, and power, it can be seen that the best of men are nothing more than frail dust while Jesus ascends in Divine Glory until He is seated on the highest throne of the universe.

It is blasphemous to compare even the most righteous of men with the Lord Jesus! Jesus is more than the son of David. Jesus is the Son of God.