Let's remember where we are. When we first started in Matthew 5 , we saw the beginning of The Sermon on The Mount. We talked about how this Sermon can be seen on its surface as a universal code of ethics for humanity. How should people act in their day to day life? How should they treat one another? Look to The Sermon on The Mount. More than that though, if you remember, is that Jesus is describing how His children live and act and work and love. What is it that sets apart

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