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Good morning, everybody!
How are you doing today?
Make some noise if your high school football team won this week!
Intro
It is important to know where messages come from, right?
If you got a random text that said, “I love you,” but the number was unknown, how would you take that message?
Or how about a message that says, “Really, bro?” Without context, we don’t understand the full meaning behind the message.
So WHO is speaking is often just as important as WHAT is being said.
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Jesus had left Nazareth to go to Galilee to launch His ministry,
and His home base, so to speak, was in this town called Capernaum.
This was where He called His first disciples and essentially began His ministry.
He gathered His disciples on the side of a hill.
He was about to address His disciples publicly for the first time.
Think of it like when we get a new president, and they have that first speech, the Inaugural Address.
Or when you are selected to be a team captain, and you address your team for the first time.
They were intrigued about what He was going to say,
and in a few minutes of time,
Jesus doesn’t just give them rules on how to live;
He radically transforms their perception on how to live
from the inside out.
Last week, we talked about the Beatitudes and what it meant to be salt and light.
Many of the people gathered to hear Jesus were Jewish, so they had studied the Scriptures.
As Jesus was giving this message,
He started by recognizing their human condition,
found in the Beatitudes,
and then showed them how to be a light in society.
Many of the people gathered viewed Moses and Elijah as heroes of the faith, believing that God had sent them.
The next part of Jesus’ message is important,
because it recognizes the people who came before Jesus to point people to God,
which we will see as we jump into this.
The law points to sin.
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Have you ever heard someone say, “It doesn’t matter if it was in the Old Testament”?
Jesus does exactly the opposite.
Now, as we talked about last week, Jesus keeps telling the people, “You have heard it said … but I say …” This is to counter any teaching that went against the true understanding of the Scripture or what God’s intention was.
Here is the reality: none of us can live up to the standard of God, so all of life is spent trying to figure out how to have a relationship with God.
And some of us work and work and work, thinking that we are under a law or a set of religious rules, obligations, or instructions.
Hear this Scripture:
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Through the law, we become conscious of our sin.
So Jesus, in verse 17, is saying, “I have come to be the fulfillment of the consciousness of your sin, to pay the price for you.
Not to abolish the concept of sin, but rather to fulfill the payment for it.”
That is why not even the smallest letter or stroke of a pen will disappear from the law until all things are accomplished.
If you set aside the law, essentially, you’re saying that this thing or that thing is not a sin, even though God has said it’s a sin.
Back to … what the law does is point out very clearly that we are lawbreakers.
However, we are no longer under the power of the law, but here is the paradox: the law is truth.
Now, if the law is truth, and we are lawbreakers, then there has to be compensation or retribution to pay for breaking the law, for sinning.
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You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
So, unless you can live a perfect, sinless life, or your righteousness can surpass that of the Pharisees,
you need grace!
We ALL need grace because you are not perfect and never will be.
race frees us from needing to be perfect.
Grace frees us from needing to be perfect.
Now, after this is established, we get our first, “You have heard it said,” statement.
Let me ask you a question: is there a sin you can commit that does not involve someone else?
We will keep coming back to that question in this series.
Sin is often the result of anger.
(Throwing Schwabe into holly bushes)
When was the last time you had a fight where you yelled out something in anger?
Go ahead and talk about it in your groups.
OK, any stories you’d like to share with the whole room?
Naturally, Jesus has some things to say about this.
“Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar.
First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.
“Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court.
Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.
Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.”
First, the reason we have the ability to forgive is because we have been forgiven.
Forgiveness is from God.
It was His idea from the beginning.
The greatest gift we can receive, first and foremost, is forgiveness from God,
the greatest gift we can receive from others is forgiveness,
The greatest gift we can receive, first and foremost, is forgiveness from God, the greatest gift we can receive from others is forgiveness, and the greatest gift we can offer to others is forgiveness.
But how do we do that, not just in the little things, but in the big things of life?
and the greatest gift we can offer to others is forgiveness.
But how do we do that, not just in the little things, but in the big things of life?
The best thing to do with the best things in life are to give them away.
Like we talked about earlier, we know that we have ALL fallen—not a few of us, not some of us, but ALL of us have failed to live up to God’s standard.
And the law made us conscious of that,
so first, Jesus took care of that by offering forgiveness through His death on a cross.
Jesus died for us so that our sins and mistakes and failures would not disqualify us.
This is the message of grace, the message of hope: you get another chance, as many as you need.
This does NOT mean we have permission to sin, but it means freedom to live without the eternal consequences of sin.
And for all who are in Christ, this is the promise and the gift.
So we have forgiveness from God, or if you have not received it yet, forgiveness is available to you.
But what about forgiveness with each other?
Sin is often the result of a lack of forgiveness.
Anger and bitterness lock us in a prison that only forgiveness holds the keys to.
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