In Matthew 5:17-20 , Christ said that He did not come to destroy The Law and Prophets, but to fulfill them. With such a wide ranging claim, encompassing the totality of The Old Testament, and even our life here today; we have spent the past 5 Sundays looking at everything this means. From the very beginning, we can sees that every time God gave a law in Scripture, He was revealing His own character and nature. How can we know what God is like? Look at all of the laws in the

As we move through these few verses in Matthew 5 , the providence of God has unfolded in such a way that we will be speaking on Christ fulfilling the Civic Law today, being Palm Sunday. Later on we will see exactly why this matters. Before we get there, however, something must be said when we talk about the idea of God having a say in the civic realm. There is a certain population, here in 2026 America, whose blood grows warm when a Christian has something to say about polit

As we study a block of verses like we have been doing for the past Month, it is wise to see “where they fit” in the overarching counsel of God. Because “ All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,” every  section of Scripture is connected to every other. Which means that when we venture into the territory to follow, and see the connections that our verses have to many others; we,