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,

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