God’s Law vs. Human Tradition: Part 3

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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 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 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…

Jesus and the Law

If you will turn in your Bibles to Matthew 5. We’ve been studying the Sermon on the Mount for the past few weeks and we’ve said so far that the Sermon on the Mount is our Lord’s word to us about what it means to be a Christian in the world in which He’s placed us. For us that means what it means to be a Christian in this pluralistic and secularistic society in which we live. We saw that He began with a series of blessings which He said belonged to all those who were followers of His, all…

The Kingdom Citizen’s Blessedness

Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5. We continue our study in the Beatitudes. The last three weeks, we have looked at the character of the Christian as it is described in the Beatitudes. Today, I want to look at the blessings that are listed in the Beatitudes. We have seen eight blessings pronounced. Seven of them pronounced upon character qualities of the Christian. One of them pronounced on circumstances in which Christians find themselves. Blessed are the persecuted. And…

The Citizens of the Kingdom III

Pleaseturn with me in your Bibles to Matthew, chapter 5. We continue our study in The Beatitudes, the first portion of the Sermon on the Mount. We have said so far in our study of the first five beatitudes that these blessings are blessings upon certain aspects of Christian character. Jesus describes for us, incidentally as He gives these blessings, what a Christian looks like. And this, simultaneously, is an encouragement to us as we see what the Holy Spirit makes us to be and, at the same…

The Citizens of the Kingdom II

Turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5 as we continue our study of the Sermon on the Mount together. We have said that in this great sermon, our Lord Jesus Christ tells us what it means to live as Christians in the world where He has placed us. In our case, in this pluralistic, secularized world. How do you live as a Christian? The Lord Jesus gives us our marching orders here in this Sermon on the Mount, and it is no mistake that He does not begin with method or technique or even laws…

The Citizens of the Kingdom I

Turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter five. We continue our study in the Gospel of Matthew, today coming to the Sermon on the Mount, perhaps the most familiar extended passage in the whole of the Scriptures. The first great discourse recorded for us by Matthew. Matthew records five of Jesus’ discourses, and this is the first of them. And this great sermon has to do with the life of the kingdom. What does it mean to be a Christian in a modern, pluralistic, secularized world? How do…

The Incomparable Christ – Exposition of…

Colossians 4:7-18The Incomparable Christ Part 17 Turn with me in your Bibles to Colossians, chapter four. We've come to the final exposition in this book. In verse 7, Paul begins his final words, his epilogue, his selection of greetings, and final directions, and words of appreciation. Throughout our study, we have noted that the great theme of this book is that believers are complete in Christ. It's very interesting that Paul works that theme even into his final words of greetings. And…

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