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*Murder in the first degree*
*/Mt 5:21-26-(NIV)-/* */21-/*“You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’
*/22-/*But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment.
Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the Sanhedrin.
But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.
*/23-/*“Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, */24-/*leave your gift there in front of the altar.
First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.
*/25-/*“Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court.
Do it while you are still with him on the way, or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.
*/26-/*I tell you the truth, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.
We are in the middle of a series of messages from the sermon on the sermon on the mount we could call it "The Only Way to Live."
It is based on the greatest sermon ever preached in history - the Sermon on the Mount.
Up to this point in the sermon, Jesus has been very general in his comments but now he gets very specific.
He several critical areas where what goes on in the inside of a person is far more important than what occurs on the outside of a person.
He is going to be dealing with murder, adultery, divorce, honesty, revenge, and loving your enemies.
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What he is about to say is not only going to astound the common people who heard him, but also deeply anger the Pharisees.
Because you see the Pharisees believe that righteousness begins and ends on the outside of a person.
Jesus is going to teach us that righteousness begins on the inside of a person.
\\ \\ Some people believe that Jesus is contradicting the teaching of Moses and contradicting the Old Testament Law.
But He is teaching the way the Law had been mishandled and misinterpreted by the legalistic Pharisees and what the Law really meant.
Jesus is not denying what the Law taught.
He is deepening what the Law taught.
\\ \\ The first situation he deals with is murder.
The first crime ever committed in the Bible was murder.
That was not the first sin but it was the first social result of man's personal sin.
We are still reaping the bitter fruits of that sin today.
There are 25,000 known murders a year in the United States.
That is 70 every day.
That figure does not include suicides and abortions.
We have now become the murder capital of the western world.
Yet, if you were to ask the average American "Have you ever murdered anyone they would say No!'" But then here is the shocker.
Jesus would say, "Not so fast!"
The Lord is going to show us that murder is not only an act it is an attitude.
In fact, before one becomes a murderer with the hands, he first becomes a murderer in the heart.
\\ \\ */This reminds of the old joke about the pastor who was talking to a couple one time having marital difficulties.
He looked at the wife and said, "Have you ever thought about divorce?"
She said, "No, but I have thought about murder on a number of occasions."
\\ /*A perfect illustration is the prodigal son.
You remember the prodigal son comes to his father and says "I want my share of the inheritance and I want it now."
Well, in Bible days, the only way that you could get a share of the inheritance was if the father died.
What that son was really saying to that father was "I wish you were dead."
\\ \\ If you have ever been angry at a person, angry enough to have even a fleeting thought of wishing they were dead, you are guilty of murder.
But Jesus goes beyond that to show how ordinary everyday run-of-the-mill anger that we see even in our homes is really murder in the first degree.
It is a great lesson on how we should view anger and have victory over it.
\\ \\ *I) Acknowledge The Anger Before You *
*/Mt 5:21-22-(NIV)-/* */21-/*“You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’
*/22-/*But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment.
Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the Sanhedrin.
But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.
People then, just as people now, thought that murder was simply the unlawful, physical taking of a human life.
But now Jesus is going to teach us that you can be a murderer in your heart without ever committing murder with your hands.
There is more to murder than just actually taking someone's life.
For example, suppose you want to kill someone and you even have the murder all planned out but at the last moment you change your mind.
Jesus said you are guilty of murder.
Just because you didn't follow through, because you couldn't pull the trigger or because something stopped you does not mitigate the fact that you had the attitude of a murderer.
\\ \\ Jesus carries murder even deeper than that.
\\ \\ Anger that is seen in the gritting of the teeth, the clenching of the jaw, and the flashing of the eyes.
Someone makes you so angry as the old saying goes - you could just spit.
But you really don't do anything.
Nobody sees it except God.
He sees that boiling burning rage inside of you that nobody else can see.
Jesus said you have the spirit of a murderer.
\\ \\ */There was a little girl who came forward during a revival and told the pastor she needed to be saved.
After church the mother went up to the daughter and said, "Why did you go forward?"
She said, "Mother, I needed to be saved."
The mother said, "Honey, you are a good girl.
You read your Bible.
You go to church.
You never give Dad and me any trouble.
How can you say that you need to be saved?
You're too good to need to be saved."
The little girl looked at her mother and said, "Mother, you can't see my heart."
Well, God can and he sees those times when you are angry and boiling on the inside though you cover it up on the outside.
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The word "raca" is a word that doesn't really have an equivalent English translation.
But the best scholars say that it literally means to call a person "a valueless person."
Jesus here is referring to the times when you get angry and you say something that you really wished you hadn't said.
You allowed poisonous venom to come out of your mouth before you could plug up the jar.
Perhaps you let profanity spew out of your mouth and you curse someone before you even realize what you had done.
\\ \\ *Someone Once Said …*
• /He that would be angry and not sin, must be angry at nothing but sin./—Rev.
William Secker, seventeenth century British minister
• /Anyone can become angry.
That is easy.
But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way—that is not easy./—Aristotle
• /Quick, angry motions of the heart will sometimes force themselves into expression by the hand, though the tongue may be restrained.
The very way in which we close a door or lay down a book may be a victory or a defeat.…/—Frances
R. Havergal
• /Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured./
• /A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control./—Proverbs
29:11 (NIV)
• /People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing./
• Anger/ is only one letter removed from /Danger.
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.But whoever says, ?You fool!' shall be in danger of hell fire."
(v.22c)
Now, the Greek word for fool is the word moros.
Obviously you can guess that we get from that the word moron.
This was a word that was used to refer to people who were basically morally wasted people.
In other words, when you get to this point and lose your temper and scream insults at someone like this you have determined that person is nothing but trash.
\\ \\ This is the type of anger when we get to the point where we just lose it and begin to yell and scream, rant and rave, at the top of our lungs not caring who we hurt or who we insult.
\\ \\ */There was a University of Auburn football player who was on spring break down in Florida.
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