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 to specific relationships. Understand what Jesus is doing. He is showing how practically the principles of righteousness and the opposite principles of wickedness work out in different commands. In verses 21-26, He took the commandment against murder. He said that this command means much more than…