Lead In: When we first arrived at Matt. 5:17-20 , two weeks ago, we saw that when God gave us The Law, He was revealing His character and nature to us. Last week, we focused on verse 20  when Jesus used the beautiful looking righteousness of the Pharisees to expose our desires for self-justification. Cutting between our motivations and actions, we understood that acting in ways that God approves of (even if they are instructions from  Him!), while refusing to repent… can bri

Last week, we started a ‘mini-series’ as it were, on The Undying Law of God. When He preempted the numerous laws He gave with the command to “be holy as He is holy” (Levi. 19:2) , we can know that there on thundering Sinai, in the giving of the Moral Law, He was revealing His character and nature in a way that we can interact with. How can we begin to wrap our mind around the “perfect-ness” of a spaceless and timeless God? The Law. And because God can’t change, it therefore

So far in Matthew 5 , we have seen Jesus give a description of the people who belong to Him, with The Beatitudes. He then moves into explaining the type of effect that those same people have on the World around them; preserving and illuminating the good, true, and beautiful. The actions we take and the words we speak, brothers and sisters; the totality of the lives we now live; are nothing short of the streams which flow from the waters of life we have drunk. We, like the wo