Jesus and the Law: Righteousness That Reaches the Heart

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of the law. Discover more about this truth. In week

three of our series Redefined, they were going to.

Be talking about law and righteousness. I love law. I

love law. I thought I was going to be a lawyer, okay,

except I found out that you have to memory so

many stuff and read so many stuff when growing When

I was growing up, I love reading and and following

Perry Mason. I don't know if you know him. That's

way back Perry Mason. And then I have tons and

tons of books on John Grisham, okay, all about the law.

And then I follow a Law, he Law Magaga Age Style,

then a Law and Order, and then now Suits My

Famousness and a series now Suits talk about lawyers. But

I love law. But then I know that it's so

hard to comply with all the loss. Even though you

have a big library of all the laws, you cannot

fully comply it. You cannot fully comply one hundred percent.

You cannot be perfect. When we talk about righteousness, righteousness

is not actually based on complying to the laws, but

it talks to about our heart. Yes, we have to

comply with the law as much as we can, all

the civil laws, all the loss, we have to comply.

But then it's different if we are after God's righteous

I love how Chill said it earlier, that the righteousness

was given to us is not ours. It was given

to us. It was imputed to us by Jesus Christ.

It's his righteousness. Let's read Matthew five seventeen to eighteen.

These are texts. If you have your Bible, check your

Bible with me. If not, you can read from the screen.

Do not think that I have come to abolish the

law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish them,

but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you,

until heaven and earth passed away, not an iota that

a dot will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Therefore,

whoever relaxes of this one of the leavests of these

commandments and teaches others to do the same will be

called the least in the Kingdom of heaven. But whoever

does them and teaches them will be great in the

Kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness

exceeds that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you will

never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The question when when

I was doing this peaching, question that always pops up

in my mind is this, can we actually meet God's

standard of righteousness? Can we the rules mak ayatai in righteousness,

rules and regulations? And then oftentime, oftentimes I don't know.

In our case, I would I would always hear my

mom or my dad said, expect hindi hind papantai and

mulang pantailang. My famous line that kulan expectation. But what

is God's expectation towards us? Is it compliance? Is it

simply adherence to the law? Adherence to the law means

para check list by what law check by? What law

check by? What law check? Is it? That way? I

found this article interestingly online when it said why intelligent

people are less likely to be religious thin context that

religious data is best in the church. Okay, I'm not

sure if it's Christianity or really relate or real or

genuine relationship with God. Okay, so think that so indigas smart?

Is that? Do you think that's true? I don't know.

It's based on a survey, based on a study. But

what it actually is implying is this that people people

people nowadays, they would you pour pass some nila is

to Bible word God. Most of the time, it's it's

those puzzling questions, is it true? Is it not true?

How true it is is if historical evidence doesn't talk

about faith, doesn't talk about faith, talks about intellect, doesn't

even talk about heart. It's all pure in the mind.

The tension there is the authority and relevancy of God's

word to our human opinion and reason. And guess what,

our mind is so finite, masqu you cannot comprehend God

because he's so big, it's so vast. That's why it

has to take lots of faith. The Bible even said

that we are faith. We don't actually see it, but

do we complain, No, we don't complaind we follow. We

follow because we know in our heart that He is

our Lord and our shavior. That's the problem. With the Pharisees.

As we go through the book of the whole Bible,

you see pharisees. Pharisees are those coten quote religious people

Selenahan twenty four to seven, Selena salles a sacrifice, but

they don't have a relationship with God. First verse Matthew

five seventeen. Do not think that I have come to

abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come

to abolish them. Why abolish? They said, abolish? Do what

do they want to abolish the law because they believe

in Jesus. I hope that was the case, but it's not.

They want to abolish the law. Why because they cannot

comply too much? Sobrang damming law? Sobran damming? Can you

can you imagine? Okay? Ten commandments? Alang? But after ten

the ten commments, the law is six hundred and thirteen laws.

How would you comply each one? Ten commandments memorized by

six hundred and thirteen the lass. It's so hard for

them to comply. That's why they said abolish the law.

Since you said that you are the son of God,

You're coming here to save us, Why do you just

abolish the law? They want an easy way out. They

they needed an escape goat and see Jesus Lord save

it called an escape My prayer, my prayer is that

what we won't be like those Pharisees, that we don't

come to church because we want an escape coat. Tell

you loud, it's between you and God. My prayer is

that you're doing victory group, hypership, victory weekend, that you're

serving not to try to find an escape coat, but

rather it is an overflow of your heart because you understand,

because you love, because Jesus is in you, and it's

there's an outworking in us. So how about the law

and Malona the mini mentioned DeTao the law in Matthew

talking about three kinds of law ceremonial law, civil law

and moral in ceremonial if you're you have your Bible

Leviticus in Leviticus or or when I was starting up.

But they think on the Leviticus Deuteronomy numbers numbers, no,

but it's important. Here are the ceremonial loss example a

few example laws for burnt offering. There's even loss for

grain offerings. Their loss for peace offerings example peace offering.

My law law for sin offering and different sin, offering

law for guilt offerings, even law for offerings, offerings, offerings,

offerings law, ceremonial laws. Hey, we do we we We

don't imply with them anymore. We don't do it. Why

because Jesus died and rose for all of those. Can

you imagine if we're still adhering to the ceremonial loss

every time and madadatupa aloya? Can you imagine that's gonna

Happeno comes, bone floor, nothing to go on. Second kind

of law is the civil law, civil law that applies

to daily living, Okay, daily living. Example Dito Deuteronomy twenty

four loss concerning divorce, miscellaneous laws. When a man is

newly married, he shall not go out with the army

or be liable for any other public duty. He shall

be free at home one year to be happy with

his wife, whom he has taken mammagnum loss. Because of

our modern society, it doesn't it doesn't makes sense anymore

to us. The last kind of law is the moral law,

such as the Ten Commandments. Moral law is the direct

command of God, and it requires strict obedience. And even

Jesus was very strict with this that he complies that

he does all the laws. Problemen of Pharisees Paris is

that baas baas even to today, one of the ten commandments,

keep your sabbath holy. Okay, alumn you bah you might

juice because if it's their sabbath, they cannot put on

their false teeth. Pushtiso because it's like you're working when

you go when you go to the Israel. Now, if

it's sabbath, nobody would push the the the the elevator

to go up. Why because it's lifting their hand and

its work in its work. So what they do is

they wait for tourists or gentiles like us, but they know,

what do you Florila, let's have it didn't work, peninsula.

We add, we try to water it down. We add

things to feel like that makes sense, but or it

doesn't make sense. Today. Three things I want to explain

with the our texts is the pop of the law, purpose, observance,

and perfectory. The purpose of the law, observance of the law,

and the perfector of the law. Talk about purpose, What

is the purpose? All about? Purpose is important. If we

don't know the purpose, it's hard to obey. If we

don't know what the law is there, for he is

example in our house. Okay, every time we would make

a new rule or new regulations in the house, we

have to talk on it on our dinner table. I

already have two grown son fifteen and seventeen years old. Said,

it's a conversation. Lara's there, but Lara's just listening and

she doesn't know anything in the hand. But we have

to set them down and tell them this is the

new rule, and then we have to go through it.

Why why is this important now? Because this is our

season if we need to do built tightening, why because

we're saving up for this purpose. We need to look

at the purpose of the law in order to understand

what Jesus means in his declaration. And his purpose is

not to harm us. His purpose is not to limit

us un a problem. Sometimes when we see law, what

comes into our mind? ISLI have you heard a lot

of people They don't want to give their lives to

Jesus because they would always say, hey, Bible, bawl dito

bowelram promises cal Roman seven verse seven said, what then

shall we say that the law is sin by no means?

Yet if he had if it had not been for

the law, I would not have known sin, for I

would not have known what it is to covet if

the law had not said you shall not covet. Paul

here in this passage explains that the law is not bad,

it is not sin, but it points people their sin,

our sin. If you look at it, the law is

like a mirror. Okay, it's it's like a mirror. And

every time we consult the law, it shows us how

sinful we are and how we are so much in

need of a savior. That's the purpose of the law. Sindarica,

guess what, because you're a sinner, I'm gonna give you

a savior. For those who don't treat their Bible, for

those who who don't like to surrender their lives, they

miss a big part. That's not all about us being sinful,

but God given God has given us a savior. The

Lord therefore tells us that we are sinners and the

need of savior. It actually shows us the impossibility of

acquiring our own righteousness by simply obeying to the laws

that we cannot do for our own. In Romans three,

verse twenty, it said, therefore, by the deeds of the law,

there shall be no flesh be justified in his side.

For the law is the knowledge of sin. It opens

our mind, it makes us aware next verse eighteen. For verified,

I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass one

job and one title. Shall is no wise pass from

the law till all be fulfilled. King James version. I

love how he said there even a jot even or

one title. When they translated the Bible into English. You

Hebrewsma annotations Marsileama, my apostrophe, my one line inverted V.

It's simply saying that what even the smallest detail of

God's law, we have to comply, even the smallest detail.

No if no, But look in Deuteronomy six twenty five,

and he said, and it will be righteousness for us

if we are careful to do what to do, all,

to do all this commandment before the Lord, our God,

and he commanded us. It's all. We cannot make an excuse.

We cannot just say, okay, it doesn't comply to me

if you do that. If we do that, we are

no exception, no difference with the Pharisees verse nineteen. Therefore,

anyone who sets aside one of the least of these

commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in

the kingdom of heaven. But whoever practices and teaches these

commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

How many of you when you go to heaven you

want to be great? Of course, all of us wants

to be great. It gave us already afford days. Do

not set it aside. It means comply everything. It means

give up your heart and obey obedience. You know, there

are several several what they called there several responses of

people with the law about being righteous. Some would actually

reject it, reject it as obsolete. Hey, by Bollyan by

Billyan Totoya, I understand it's true, but absolute Niana Babasania Canal.

There's a new version. It's not about the the the interpretation,

but it's what you consume in your heart. The veracity

of the Bible has been verified to stand the test

of time, and it would always remain. The question now

is if it's irrelevant to you. Why is it irrelevant?

Maybe it's because you don't want to comply. Next, is

we we Actually some people would try to modify it,

like the pharisees adjust, adjust to it. Can imagine the

Ten Commandments, obeying parent history, in success history, in sabad,

I'll keep it holy murder murders or murder parent, honor God,

young young people. Yeah, because malas we we try to modify.

We we sometimes we look at Christianity as like a

buffet depending bucket paras diva. Guys, don't don't don't drink

why you get full, but I'm thirsty. Soup soup soup love.

Don't don't eat rice, Why it's carb is gonna make

you bloated, But but that there's there, there's sauce. There's

need to go on. Sometimes we do that. Sometimes we

do that even in our Christian walk, we try to

modify it. Some people are just oblivious, they don't care,

they don't care with what's happening all around. And some

are very legalistic. Legalistic means okay, I adhere to the law.

I do not set it aside. But it's too much.

It's like the law is my God. That's bad also

because nobody and nothing should take the place of God

in our lives and teaches others accordingly. My prayer is

this that we teach, we tell people. We show people

that they see it in us. You know, what's the

purpose of the law? Is it to be great? Not

here on earth, but in the kingdom of Him. We

really fine thinking say that what matters most is our obedience,

our heart for God. In Matthew six thirty three, it said,

seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. Not

all the success, all your success, not all your good grades,

their good, not all your richest No, but said seek

first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all

this shall be added unto you. Everything else is a bonus.

I always say this after Christianity. Everything else is a bonus.

Seeing life life, Hey on, bonus, nlan yan, because you're

already complete in christ indecana promote. Oh hey long ya,

God has something better for you. Seek him first, and

everything else will be added unto you. Next is observance.

Remember pop, what's the first one purpose? And then now

we observe? How do we observe? In verse twenty said,

for I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that

of the Pharisees, like we make, we make a search

onto the pharies a while ago. We tell them how

they define themselves We'll tell them how they how they

try to comply, but they adjust things. Jesus saying, here,

do not be like them, direct naon in the Sermon

of the Mouth, some of the Pharisees were actually there.

Can you imagine scenario. My people don't be like them.

I sort my people do not be like them, because

they know, they see, they see, they see, they know,

they they saw how the Pharisees live. And He's saying,

do not be like them, and the teachers of the

you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven. This

shows the impossibility of making one's righteousness before God. Pharisees,

they have a work salvation mentality. You know that work, work, work,

work righte work your way out here, work your way

to heaven. Work with your way. It works salvation. But

in Asaiah sixty four, verse six, it said all of

us have become like one who is unclean, and all

our righteous acts are like filthy rags. We all shrivel

up like a leaf, and like the wind, our sins

sweep us away where it's like filthy rags. Even though

we do good works, it still feel and it still smell,

and it still looks like filthy rags. It's saying that

it's impossible to please God apart from Jesus Christ, apart

from our faith, apart from our journey and walk with

the Lord. Everything else is like filthy rct. The scripture

teaches us repeatedly that sinners are capable of nothing but

flawed and imperfect righteousness. But thanks be to God that

he gave Jesus to us. Therefore, the only righteousness by

which sinners may be justified is the perfect righteousness of God,

imputed in us through Jesus. Romance four. And to the

one who does not work but believes in Him who

justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as what as righteousness,

just as David also speaks of the blessing of the

one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works importante

deader see David. Why did Paul use David? Because we

know that David is after God's heart, But we also

know that David did so many sin Remember but Sheba,

remember Rayah, he did all of those. But he's making

a point here. I am not after how clean or

perfect we are. You are the Lord, say I take

you as it is, as you are if David still,

I look at somebody who is after my heart, So

are you, Church. Do not be also too hard on yourself.

That is not from the Lord. When the Lord says

that I will not count any sin, he says, I

will not count and record any of our sins. Do

not be too hard on us. We have to understand

how loving, how faithful, how Yes, there's justice, but there's

mercy in the Lord. And then Paul continued, Blessed are

those whose lawless deeds are forgiven and whose sins are covered.

Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not

count his sin. It has to penetrate our heart. Jesus

was saying that his listens that to his listeners that

you need to have a different approach, different thing on

on on love and obedience. Love and obedience is one

and the same. It's it cannot just be love and

then obey. It cannot just be you're obeying, but you

don't love it. Our righteousness must first and foremost draw

from what God did not on our us. If there's

love and obedience, it has to be God centered, not

self centered. Your righteousness not intel centered than God. Lord.

And in purpose, money Wilmo. If it's not, it's not

love and obedience. It has to it has to be

based on the reference of God, that we are pleasing God,

not men example Nacole. Every time we we we tell

them to comply, we always ask, every time we we

discipline them, we always ask, do you have anything to say?

Is it? Is it okay with you? As in pure

a heart? Discipline at all? Because if it's not, let's

talk about it. We're always after the heart, not the obedience,

obedience out towards parapharracies, behavioral modification, and guess what after

we forget, we stumble down. If we don't correct our heart,

it would recur. It would always check our heart. I

love how how how Jonathan Edwards said. Pastor Jonathan and

Doctor Jonathan Edwards said that the Gospel is to be

preached as well as the law. We will we don't abolish,

you don't put one aside. And the law is to

be preached only to make the way for the what

for the Gospel, Because if we know that we're so

sinful and in need of a savior, we need Jesus Christ.

We need the Gospel, and in order that it may

be each more Effectively, the Gospel without the law is

that perfect both has to be there. Jesus is pointing

out that he came to do what nobody else can.

Last point, here is perfector. Who is the perfector Jesus Christ.

He's the perfector of our faith. But to fulfill them.

Fulfill here means to make us complete, to make it complete.

Jesus came to complete the law. Jesus was actually saying

that all the laws that were written is still in

It was incomplete. Why because I am the fulfillment of

the law. When I say I was prophesying, he was

talking about Jesus. When when When when Moses was given

the law, there was a promise and a completion in

Christ alone the Lord is coming. When even before Jesus

was born, they knew that there was a messiah to come.

He completes it. Redefined means that this speaks of fulfillment

in the same sense that the prophecy is fulfilled. Christ

indicates that he fulfills the law in all aspects, whether

it be civil law, whether it be ceremonial law, whether

it be the moral law. It talks directly to our heart,

makes it perfect. I love this quote. I borrow this

from pastorally. Do you remember Pastor ly, I love this,

And he said, the law points to our sins, as

the prophets point to our savior. The completion what makes

it complete? That means when you come to church and

expect you to be complete. My prayer is that you

know that you have accepted the Lord as your savior,

to make it complete. Because without Christ, what we're doing

here is nothing. It's nothing. John one sixteen, verse seventeen said,

from the fullness of his grace, we have all received

one blessing after another. Fullness. It's not partial. Fullness means complete.

That He gave us the installment. My parents they love

me because and all so misa installments happened. Alameen, okay,

But my good grade ninety percent installment. No, what God

gave us, it's complete fullness in Christ. For the law

was given through Moses. Grace and truth came from who

Jesus Christ. So there is no excuse. Now why can

we be righteous because we're complete in Christ. The law

was given through Moses, but grace, truth, now faith is

given to us. This is our response. This is in

Hebrews four fourteen to seventeen. It said, Since then we

have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus,

the Son of God. Let us hold fast our confession.

There's a big response that we have to take hold of.

Hold fast means do not let go. Hold fast means

hold faster. Your confession as Jesus, your Lord and Savior,

means whatever comes my way, I won't let go. It

means whatever it is, I won't let go. Why because

of that confession? Because Lord, you are true, because you're

you are complete nothing, and no one would ever complete

me Verse fifteen. For we do not have a high

priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but

one who in every respect has been tempted as we

are yet without sin. Talks about Jesus, talks about him

being our high priest. That means the law, the law

of the sacrifice, nothing anymore white. Because Jesus became our

ultimate sacrifice. He is our high priest. He's now in

heaven interceding for you and I, even though we sin,

Even though there are times that we just don't mind him,

or either oblivious or sometimes we're so legalistic with the law,

He's saying it's okay, I'm still here. I'll be your

high priest. Verse sixteen. Let us, then, with confidence draw

near to the throne of grace, that we may receive

mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

All you have to do, the Father is saying, unto you,

my sons and my daughters, just come back to me,

approach me, Be confident, be strong and courageous. Your sins

are forgiven. I don't keep even a record of it,

but know that when you come, it has to be wholehearted.

It cannot be I'll take this for now. Why because

iona carbs. The Lord is gracious. But remember again that

the Lord in the Lord, there's justice. There's justice as well,

you know, direct obedience. When we talk about righteousness, godly

righteousness talks about one thing, talks about lordship. Who is

your Lord? Yes, I know that all of us would

say if I ask you, who's your savior, Lord Jesus Christ.

But you see your Lord, then we put all our

hands down. Lordship is not about our attitude, But lordship

talks completely about our hearts. What's in our heart? When

that when the Lord looks in you heart, who is there?

What is there. What are the sins, the lies? Let's pray, Father,

in our own way, in our own where we are

right now, Father, in our own seats, where we stand, Lord,

we repent whatever it is. Confess it to God right now,

how small, how big that sin is, confess it to him. Say, Lord,

that is not my confession. My confession is you, our

Lord over our lives. Our confession is you and you alone.

Our confession is there's no other one but you. So Father,

I pray right now we repent of our sins. Lord.

We pray Lord God, Lord, that we will hold fast,

meaning we won't let go, meaning whatever comes our way,

it's you and you alone. You are the Lord. You

are the king over our lives. No one but you.

Apart from you, Father, we are nothing. Lord. I also pray,

Lord God, that you give us grace. Can I just

ask everybody to just raise up our hands, Father, give

us grace. Make it abound in us, make it be

evident in and through us, all the works of our hands. Lord,

even from our mind, Lord God, however small, our big

the idea, Lord God, even even temptations, Lord, God, Lord,

I pray Lord for your grace. Apart from your grace,

Lord God, we cannot survive. So Lord, do this change

in us. Lord. I pray Lord God that we are

not anymore defined by the world, but we are redefined

because all of us are new. And Lord, I pray

Lord that in everything Father, our ultimate purpose is just

to please you and you alone. Lord. We even pray

Lord God for a relationship. You can put your hands down. Lord,

I pray Lord that each one of us that is

our goal to have that relationship with you. Thank you

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