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Open your Bibles to
The beatitudes
Matt 5:
Salt and light
Matt 5:1
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God’s kingdom ethic far surpasses any earthly kingdom.
Specifically the Pharisees in the Scripture
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Matt 23:32
And even every other moral system system that we see today
Our priorities have to be ordered according to God’s kingdom ethic.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is reordering our prirotities so as to not line up with the traditions of man, but rather to line up with his word…
Such that we would truly be salt and light in the world
To be agents that preserve and illuminate so that the world might get a glimpse of the holiness of God and glorify him
We are all poor in spirit and are unable to fulfill the Law.
Keep these in mind as we look at tonight’s text.
God’s kingdom ethic far surpasses any earthly kingdom.
Our priorities have to be ordered according to God’s kingdom ethic.
We are all poor in spirit and are unable to fulfill the Law.
Remember from last week:
Just because a mouse is in a cookie jar, does it make it a cookie?
More than external behavior
Prayer.
Last week we Jesus showed us two ways that our righteousness needs to exceed that of the scribe and the pharisees…
Jesus quoted two of the ten commandments
Do not murder
Do not commit adultery
Anger - commits murder
Lust - commits adultery
In this week Jesus moves away from the 10 commandments, and moves to two different scriptures from the OT that the scribes and the pharisees relaxed…
Matt 5:
The two topics that he addresses in are divorce, and oaths.
Let’s look at the first one
Matt 5:31
What OT scripture that Jesus makes reference to is
Here is the practice that was being formed by the pharisees:
If a man found fault with a woman… he could divorce her…
Such faults included if a woman spoiled a meal… a man could divorce her…
If a man found another woman that he preferred… he could divorce his wife
If the man found any fault from the woman in her ability to preform the duties of a wife, the man could divorce her so long as he gave her a certificate of divorce…
Let me read the writing from a man named Josephus who lived around the time that Jesus lived.
Let me be clear this isn’t from the Bible, but an account from a human on his practice of marriage
“At this time I sent away my wife, being displeased with her behavior.…
Then I took as wife a woman from Crete.…”
Josephus even adds commentary to moses command from .
This is what he wrote:
“The man who wishes to be divorced from his wife for whatever cause—and among people many such may arise—must certify in writing.
“If she does not accept your control, divorce her and send her away”
And the subject of divorce isn’t limited to the Sermon on the mount
Matt 19:10
And things today haven’t changed much since Jesus day
“If she does not accept your control, divorce her and send her away”
And things today haven’t changed much since Jesus day
we hear sayings like
“we’ve just fallen out of love”
“we don’t get along anymore”
and we see situations where husbands or wives just uproot themselves from their spouses and their kids to leave for another person…
Divorce is a result of sin.
A few things we need to address…
Just because you guys aren’t married doesn’t mean you don’t need to hear this…
in fact… it’s crucial that you know what God says about marriage before you do get married
Students, hear this:
Let me give you some advice
Don’t date someone who you wouldn’t marry
Don’t date someone who you wouldn’t want to stay married to
Most of us (if not all) are adulterers
Just because some of our parents are still together doesn’t make our parent any less a sinner in need of grace than one who has been divorced
First
My dad got divorced before he married my mom
Jesus also gives permission to divorce on one ground
Matt 5:
Furthermore, divorce isn’t the only form of adultery… remember last week?
Jesus is showing each of us that we are poor in spirit
Jn 8:3
Divorce is a result of sin.
Even when it is permitted when one is unfaithful… it’s still sin
Even if a believer is married to an unbeliever.... it’s still sin
1 Cor
Even if a spouse is unworthy of love because they have done something wrong… divorce is still sin… because remember earlier
Divorce is a result of sin.
Let’s continue:
Matt
Matt
Jesus here is referring to the way the Pharisees have interpreted and taught a number of passages referring to promises and oaths.
So the scribes and Pharisees took these commands twisted them to their own gain...
Since it was a vow or an oath that needed to be commited to, they made up a foolish way speaking and swearing by objects that made certain promises more binding than others…
Jesus goes into more detail about this in matt 23
matt 123:16
Let’s get back to matt 5
Matt 5:34-
All these things belong to God and are under his control…
Even the hair on our head our out of our control…
so swearing by it no more helps us keep our word than if we simply say yes…
Matt 5:
Failure to keep your word is a sin.
What Jesus is telling us is that instead of pronouncing an oath to guarantee the truthfulness of a particular statement, he requires truthfulness in all speech.
Crossing your fingers doesn’t cancel your word
Making promises to your parents and does not cancel the promise you made to your sibling
Making an agreement to do the dishes, and then not doing them because you forgot, is just as great a sin as breaking an oath or promise that you have made with God.
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