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God’s Law vs. Human Tradition: Part I

Turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5 as we continue our study of the sermon on the mount. We are in a section from Matthew 5 verse 17 all the way down to verse 48 where the Lord Jesus sets forth the law of His kingdom, the righteousness of His kingdom. We knew what the Pharisees were teaching in the land of Israel in His own day. What was going to be the pattern of life amongst His followers, however? What was going to be their view of the moral law of God, and He sets it forth in this passage. Last week we looked at verses 17 – 20 and their we saw the great principles of Jesus set forth with regards to the righteousness of His kingdom. Everything from verse 21 on to the end of the chapter is an illustration, an explanation, and an application of what He said in those…

God’s Law vs. Human Tradition: Part 2

Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5. This passage we read this morning is one of those passage’s that reminds us why it’s good to preach through books of the Bible because preachers would like to skip passages like these. There are two reasons I’m encouraged coming to a passage like this today. The first one is these are the words of our Lord and I shall not stray to the right or the left of them and He did not say these words to us to wound us to death, to hurt us, but He said them for our good in His glory. There is a second reason I’m encouraged to bring this word to you, and that is you are a people who love the truth and you want to hear the truth even when it hurts, and so the word of God beginning in Matthew 5 verse 27. “You have heard that it was…

God’s Law vs. Human Tradition: Part 3

Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5, as we continue our study of the Sermon on the Mount. We have said the last two weeks that from Matthew 5, verse 21, to Matthew 5, verse 48, Christ is applying the general principals that He taught in verses 17-20 to six specific issues in human relationships. Over and over we have said that Christ stresses in these passages that the law is spiritual. It is not merely external. It reaches to matters of the heart. And that our relationships to one another and the way we act in those relationships is an index of our relationship to God Himself. So that if we are being disobedient in those human relationships, it probably reflects a disobedience in our divine relationship. It perhaps reflects that we do not know God as we…

God’s Law vs. Human Tradition: Part 4

Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew 5, verse 33. 5:33. We have been studying the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount. We saw in verses 17-20 that Lord set forth the principle of the righteousness of His kingdom. In that passage, He said that the righteousness demanded of His citizens, the citizens of His kingdom, was far beyond that righteousness expected by the Pharisees. In verses 21-48, He begins to apply the principles that He set forth in general in verses 17-20 to specific commands and…

God’s Law vs. Human Tradition: Part 5

Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5. We have been studying the Sermon on the Mount for the past few weeks, and specifically, since we began our study of Matthew 5 verses 21 and following, we have seen Christ applying the principles of the righteousness of His kingdom, calling His people to true godliness and trying to raise the awareness of those caught up in the web of self righteousness of just how extensive the command of the law is. And in the process, we have seen the…

God’s Law vs. Human Tradition: Part 6

Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5 verse 43 as we continue our study of the Sermon on the Mount. We’ve said that throughout chapter 5 from verse 17 all the way down to the end of the chapter in verse 48, the Lord Jesus Christ is setting forth the righteousness of His kingdom, that is, He’s setting forth the kind of life that His disciples are going to live. He's setting forth the standard of the kingdom. Standards which cannot be produced by our own efforts unaided…

True Religion, Part 1: Giving

Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 6. We have been studying the Gospel of Matthew and in particular the Sermon on the Mount for the past few weeks. Concentrating on chapter 5 and Jesus’ teaching on the law. In that passage, Christ had contrasted His proper understanding of the law with the Pharisees misinterpretation of the law, and in particularly in Matthew 5:17-48, we saw Christ contrast His teaching in six specific areas with the Pharisees. As Christ moves from…

True Religion, Part 2: Praying

If you have your Bibles, please turn with me to Matthew chapter 6, as we continue our study of this great Gospel of Matthew and of the Sermon on the Mount. Last time we were together in this passage, we looked at the first four verses of Matthew chapter 6 and saw the Lord’s teaching on Christian giving. You remember that as we studied chapter 5, the first section of the Sermon on the Mount, we said that Jesus particularly in verses 17-48 of chapter 5, was that it pains to show the error in…

True Religion, Part 3: Prayer and Forgiveness

Turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 6 as we continue our study in the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount. The last time we were together in this passage, we were looking at our Lord’s teaching, contrasting what He expected His disciples to do in prayer with that which the Pharisees were practicing. This week, we will begin to look at the prayer itself, the prayer in which the Lord instructed His disciples, and more importantly the principles on which this prayer was based. And I…