Why Jesus Raises the Standard and Offers True Righteousness

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fulfillment of the law. Discover more about this truth in

week three of our series Redefined.

So we're going to look at what the scholars say

is the heart of the sermon in the Mount. And

my prayer is that we get this and understand this

in fact preaching, it's going to be easier for us

to un understand the next couple of weeks. I don't

know about you, but for the past weeks, the preaching

gets a bit harder. And imagine and Natama and I

we're gonna message, but I'm gra or this preaching really

hits us. Guess what in the next couple of weeks,

it's going to get harder and harder and more practical.

But if we understand the heart of the sermon in

the Mount, my prayer is we would see it in

a different way. And this is some scholars say the

heart of the Sermon in the Mount Matthew five, verses

seventeen to twenty. It says, here, do not think that

I've 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

pass away, not an ayota, not a dot, will pass away,

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

whoever lapses one of the least of these commandments and

teaches others to do the same, will be called least

in the Kingdom of heaven. But whoever does them and

teaches them, will be called 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. It says in this verse, verse seventeen,

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. The first thing that I want,

the first word that we have to look at, is

the word law. Because when you read the Bibles, is

a Bible made into makita, but us utus what does

the law mean? Now we know that our Bible is

divided into two, the New Testament and the Old Testament.

Now the Old Testament is generally also divided into two,

the first five books of the Bible known as the

pentatouh or or some call it the Torah or the Law,

and the other half, the other part of the Bible

rather are called the prophets. So saving in Jesus, the

Law and the prophets generally the whole Old Testament. And

not only that, when we hear the word law, we

have this connotation utos or batas, And what's the law about?

The law basically has God's commandment for us and his

expectations for us to obey it. So when you look

at the law, the law is about commands that we

need to obey. Now, when I hear when I say

the word law or utos, some of us we don't

really like it, especially you know, if you're if you

would remember the number one enemies or the ny the

primary enemy of Jesus, or the Pharisees and the sad disease.

Those people really uphold the laws important in the law

that they have to come up with an ex a

set of laws to protect them from breaking the original

six hundred thirteen laws ten commandments, all right, sonap ten

command vents. So then don't push a law. And not

only that, menupand six hundred and thirteen other laws from

the Bible breaking loss and maa pharisees and sada seas.

They added extra law plama breaking law ni God. So

for them the law is something very important. But for us,

when we hear the word.

Law or utos, it makes us feel like grabbing a

man na pas streak, grabbing a manna old school grabbing

a man a paa backward thinking.

I don't know if you would remember, especially no no

mejo teenagers fatio mimautasatian parents natin gang we nang late

maga all right, or we come up boyfriend or girlfriend

nahaa graduate, Well come, I know what We'll come another TV.

I say internet, mahadua at the top on your own assignment.

And sometimes when we hear those laws, we're like crabbing

the man the man ma what you twelve midnight grah

the party is just starting? What boy, my boyfriend girlfriend?

Everyone does it. It's twenty seventeen. The old school in

law and For some of us, when we hear commands

like that, we think of grabbing old school, backward modern age,

and it's move on taman as a Bible Christian about

backward thinkers the man traditional adopt some modern times and

they try to abolish what God says. And remember when

Jesus came here, he says the preaching that he says

were so revolutionary, it was so anti Pharisees, anti scribes

that the people were thinking, Lord, abolish momino in another world.

Today we want, we want the law to be abolished

as to health for our own desires. But remember that word,

that word abolish in this real Greek word. It came

from this image. Because but if you want to travel,

we have our cars, so we have uber. But during

their time, I'm ferrario, okay, we have camels to share.

You ma have baggage camel guy, And so sometimes what

they have to do they have to take the camels

to an end. He unbuckle your mama baggages maa gamila,

or they will abolish. That's the same word, yeah, unbuckle para.

What did Jesus say in regards to the law. He

did not. He did not come to abolish the law.

He did not come to dismantle it. He did not

come to unbuckle it. He did not come to make

it light for us. So when Jesus came here, he

was saying, no, no, no, you thought I was trying to

abolish the laws. I'm actually upholding it. Qua kalamay to

your standard. Jesus was saying, mataska standard jan. He was

upholding the law. And that's hard. Again, guess if I

hear it, tamasundin, I hear and if you and I

are honest enough before God, we could say hit rabsunaden.

But what I fail to say is this Not only

is the law about a bunch of commands that we

need to obey. What I fail to say is that,

first and foremost, it is a story, a story of

God's relationship with us. The context of the law is

always relationship. It starts off a relationship. Therefore it gets

defined by a certain set of laws. I guess the

nearest example for this, As you know, I'm married to

my beautiful wife. She was here I think anina, and

since I'm married to her, we have a covenant relationship

with each other. There are certain rules or loss that

we have for each other like one of them. Of course,

since I'm married to her, I am not allowed to

build unhealthy relationships with the opposite sex. And it's not

burden some for mina and grabbing a man modern day. No,

there's a law because we have a relationship. It's exclusive.

Probably another better example, as you know, I have a

one year old and four months son. His name is

Jededdaia Sean or I call him Jedi and or what.

But suddenly when he right now, he starts walking and

he likes to put his fingers inside things, so you know, amen.

But one day, one day I saw him put his

finger in the electric socket. Oh no, first time, card

play somewhere else anywhere, Just don't put their finger there,

No first time, and I adam, I do any go anywhere.

Just don't eat the fruit. That's the first law. And

when we saw that, my wife and I we talked

about discipline and putting up certain kind of laws and aspars.

I think you can relate to this. I'm so thankful

for Victory Group in the church community. It's someone gets

to teach us how to raise up our kids. Wife,

go okay, if we're going to discipline him, and you know,

put certain kinds of laws. It should be within a

basic set of premises. So the first we came up

as of now, okay, three reasons why we have to

discipline or correct him or put certain kinds of loss.

The first one is if it hurts him anything, of

course we need to put laws to avoid that from happening,

or we need to Disciplinehan. The other one, of course

is he if he it hurts his relationship with God.

Therefore that's what we call sin. So if it's sin,

we need to discipline. And then the third one, if

it affects his relationship with other people. Therefore we need

to discipline him. So we put all those certain set

of laws and Ganyan because we love him. Do you

think it's loving for me if one day we decide,

if we one day we just decide, So she jedi

with his finger an electric fun. Oh it's a blender

about me, Ecot, What would you think of me when

all of staging been Go, you know what, say, twenty

seventeen is stiff full on your freedom? Go? Wow? Do

you think it's loving for me as a parent to

do that? The hanswer is no. We put standards for

the things that we value. When we buy a phone,

when we put a high standard, not in standard lad relationships.

Why is that standards are high for the things that

we value. The law is high because my love for

my son is also high. God's standard is high. His

loss are high because his love for you and me

are high. Man a certain set of laws. We sometimes

think that sariliko a mahalin, but in reality, like parenting

and relationships, mahalk I love her, I love him my son,

I have a relationship with him. Therefore, I'm putting sets

a certain set of laws and boundaries that I expect

him to obey. Casimi relationship kme. Do we see the

difference there? The other one we're trying to attain it.

The other one is we're already there and we're just

acting out our identity. That's what the law says. And

not only is the law a story about God's relationship

with us or commands to obey, it also has promises

that he wants to fulf our lives. If you read

our Bibles, you would see that God is our redeemer,

our provider, our healer. He is our light. He calls

us the apple of his eyes. He will forgive us,

he will uphold us, and he has other promises that

he wants to fulfill in our lives. The law also

talks about God's will that he wants us to experience.

That's why there's this prayer that you will be done

on earth as it is in heaven, and one day

when God comes again, he will fulfill his perfect will

in our lives. That's the law. Now, when Jesus said,

he did not come to abolish it, but he came

here to fulfill it. What does it mean. Let's continue

verse eighteen. It says here for truly, I say to you,

until heaven and earth pass away, not an ayota, not

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

And nyota is the smallest alphabet of the Hebrew language,

and dot is like compound quit sabin, insignificant small details

of the word. It will all be fulfilled. The latest fads,

it will pass away, ungaunt and latest gadgets. It will

all pass away. Our relationships, it will all pass away,

our possessions, treasures, whatever we have resources, it will all

pass away. The latest ideologies. Uma saying it will all

pass away, and some has already passed away, and God

is saying everything else will pass away, but the Word

of God will not pass away. It will remain timeless.

It will endure forever. And you know the trending asa

Facebook one month after, it will still be here. Why

because the Word of God is timeless, It is always, always,

always relevant, It is always new, it is always applicable.

It is a bin. The Bible always has something to say,

even in our modern issues. You know, hearing this going

campus unis we always hear this quite as a Facebook.

We will always hear man as a Bible. Napaa backward

thinking telega Papa old school seventeen Napa traditional napat that word, Oh,

I respect them. We are the new generation. We can define.

We know what needs to work in our generation. Napaka

backward thinking the Bible. But remember the Word of God

is a now word always. You know, backward thinking, sin

is backward thinking. Sinning is backward thinking because it makes

us forget what God's purpose is for our lives. You

know what, if you study history, you would look like

you would look that before the word came bagupan ataranom law,

the the climate or the condition of the world. Well

up on human rights. Women wepp human rights, babaye wal

a master slave, healthy relationship, well, an healthy view of

what marriage and relationships are about money. It's a dog

eat dog world. But when the law came, it was

so revolutionary, it was so progressive, it was so forward thinking.

What mahababi and my value see created in the image

of God? What slaves, master parijome rights? What human rights?

Possibly by oen and the word the love of God

set standards. Its shaped the society. It said, girls, you

have a value, you have a high value. Therefore go ahead,

put the highest standard that you want. But what does

the world do now every time there's born, what does

it do? It reduces women to objects. Now, let me

ask you who is backward thinking? Because before the law

came and things about by objects sabin a word in

the image of God yen. And now the world wants

us to go back in there sinning is backward thinking.

Jesus wants us to go forward to eternity. Sin wants

us to go back to death. That is the word

of God, and God says it will be accomplished. This

is what the word of God says. Next word savidito. Therefore,

whoever relaxes one of the least of the commandments and

teaches others to do the same, will be called least

in the Kingdom of heaven. But whoever does them and

teaches them will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

For some of us here we are Christians already, but

we don't treat the word of God with reverence and respect.

How do we do this when we when we still

compromise and the things that God wants us to change?

And now what God is saying, no, we have to

if we want to be great, we need to uphold

what he says, obey and teach others. You know, Savidito.

If we want to be great, it's in the Bible.

Gender was never fluid, it was clearly defined. Marriage is

not a gray area. It's a black and white thing.

And God is telling us, if you want to be great,

we need to uphold it. It's not backward thinking. It

is the truth. And that's what it says here, challenging us.

You want to be great, Uphold the word of God,

obey it, teach it, demolish the arguments in the world

because it will not last. But the word of God

will last. Now let me go to the last verse

in this chap, in this message that we just read,

and this is the bomb o you ma first verses

Wow amount of times Jesus okay savi is a verse twenty.

For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of

the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom

of heaven. What does it mean? During their time are

the Pharisees and scribes they obeyed the law, all right,

they obey even the man made law, even to the dot.

But it was all external lahapang la bass, but never internal.

What it practically means to us right now is this

is that it's not just external but also internal. Come

on here, you know that's hard. It's so easy that

I don't know if you've tried this. I'm guilty of this.

Now set on table, look at it's so easy to

obey externally, right, but not internally. But not internally, Jesus.

Criticism to the Pharisees and Sadducees are there. They are

like whitewashed tombs malini cela bash mad misello. And that's

the challenge for us as well. We may come here

in church all look white and bright externally. But the

challenge is how, how what are inside? Do we really

love God? We may do one to one, We may

go here and worship service. We may raise our hands

and declare God is good, but maybe deep down in

our hearts we hate him because he doesn't answer our prayers.

We may come here and just, you know, just say,

oh damn, you know, if we really are true with ourselves,

we're not okay? Because we are, we just did sin

and to make matters worse. The standard of God is

not just to uphold the law. Look at this next

verse somewhere in the day of chapter five as well,

verse fourty eight sabidito, you therefore must be perfect as

your heavenly Father is perfect. The standard is perfection. Homo

here you know you're not perfect. The question is perfect,

None of us are. The challenge is sometimes when we

compare our sin and we say you're gonna do but

they know they're gonna balita or quitarian live streams of Facebook,

and oh, you're perfect perfection. Though. The issue is not

do we have sin or not? The issue is not

do we do good? The issue is do we have sin?

That's the thing that's the problem you and I. We

have seen you and I are not perfect, and God's

demand is perfection. He has such a high standard. The

law is there to make you and me see that.

God has a high standard. The law is there to

make you and me see that. The reason why there's

a high standard is because He has such high love

for us. And at the same time, the law is

there to make you and me c that we cannot.

We cannot in our own strength reach that standard. The

law is there to make you and I see we

have all failed. Let's make it. Where's okay to make matters?

Verse Galatians three, verse ten. It says here for all

who rely on works of the law are under a curse.

For it is written, curse be anyone who does not

abide by all things written in the book of the

Law and do them. You and me were not perfect.

You and me, we have not obeyed the law to

the dot. Therefore an condition that then we are cursed

kasumpaumpauma in a mat indeed, cursed for everyone who does that.

If we fail to obey, it's were cursed. If we

fail to do it, we're cursed. If we don't do it,

we're still cursed. We are cursed. We cannot save ourselves.

That is our status, that is who we are. But

here's an interesting thing. Remember what the law is. It's

a story of God's relationship with his people, commands to obey,

promises to fulfill God's wil to be experienced. God knew

beforehand that you and I cannot and will break his commandments.

That's why he said the beginning, I know you're going

to break my commandments, but I will still always love you.

I will always be there for you. Do not for

a second think that I push you away. God never

pushes you away. He always pulls, pulls, pulls us close

to his heart. God doesn't make us just see how

big our sin is and laugh with us. I think

I am commutinuous, and God says, no, I have loved

you with an everlasting kind of love. I will forgive you.

I will make sure that my righteous requirements are met,

and at the same time I will love you. The

dilemma is God cannot love us if we have sin.

He has to kill us because in the wages of

sin is death. So how does God do it? And

his sovereign wisdom he came here down on earth, Jesus Christ,

Jesus fulfilled every commands to the sinless, absolute perfection. Jesus,

according to the Bible, are the promises of God, Yes

and amen, the fulfillment of the law, every righteous requirement.

But this is what he did when he came here.

He took all our sin to himself, upon himself, and

he died on the cross for that. This is what

Galatian says the same chapter that we were reading a

while ago, Galatians three, verse thirteen. Christ redeemed us from

the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.

For it is written, cursed is everyone who is hanged

on a tree. You may curse now on that, but

nasa tree. You and I are the cursed once we're

supposed to be on the tree. But who went on

the tree. It was Jesus. What was his status? Cursed?

Jesus was cursed. The savior became the sinner, and the

sinners became perfect the righteous for the unrighteous to bring

us to God. That is what Christ did for us.

He took all our sins and imputed righteousness to us.

It's a big word, imputed. That's a theological word. To

him and his perfection, his being righteous was imputed to us.

What is our response rebelkay God and say here to the

standard bond then or religious? Or do we receive it

as a gift? Galatians three, same chapter, verse eleven. Now

it is evident that no one is justified before God

by the law, for the righteous shall live by faith.

I love that word justified, where they're justified the righteous

shall live by faith. Well, these couple of words, justification

by faith alone, beautiful set of words. If you are

a Christian, this is one of the most beautiful set

of words that you can see in the world. Justify

means in the Bible terms, it means God's perfection upon

us and sin as if what I've done In short,

oh I canna, Oh I canna. That's what it means.

You and I, if you're honest enough, you and I

know we're not okay. You and I know we have insecurities,

we have problems, we have challenges, we have sin. You

and I know we have issues, emotional, spiritual, relational. You

and I know that is our statue. If you're honest enough,

you and I would say we're not okay. We're really

honest enough. Our status. We're not okay, we're not justified,

and we're trying to make ourselves okay by how or

if I just have more friends. I have boyfriend, I

have girlfriend, I have money, I have success, I have

a family, I have position, and I'm going to be okay.

But if you're honest enough, it's not going to be

It's not going to still be okay. How would you

and I be okay only when we are justified by

Christ through his blood, by faith, and that's what he

did on the cross. Justification by faith alone, says Kayaka,

looking okay because you see Lord indeed looking okay. That's

and now if you trust him, your status is justified.

The effect of does that is this boyfriend had justification? Mona,

my Lord, you're still okay. Justification Mouni Jesus, not what's

in our bank account? Mad. Of course it doesn't feel okay,

But deep down, Alamo and things are going to turn okay.

Why because he has already done it on the cross.

The reason why you and I can face life and

it's darkness and it's evil is because He has done

it already. We are already okay. Justification by faith alone.

One of the most beautiful doctrines, one of the most

beautiful realities. Now you and I could see the Bible

that when we were still sinners, Christ died for us

justified for the next couple of weeks, you mamma preaching,

it's going to be more specific anger, loss, forgiveness, money, prayer, discipline,

it's going to be practical and if you don't get

it right a Bible. But if we get this and

justified already, I have a relationship I'm going to obay.

My prayer is if we get this so that the

next couple of weeks we're going to live out God's

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