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Introduction
Set up the Sermon
(Shape of Matthew) Jesus is David, he’s Moses, he’s Israel, he’s YHWH - HE is the voice on the mountain!
But what is he saying?
Something different than what he said before?
YHWH wants you to flourish!
- Heeding the wisdom and instruction of God/Whole-person allegiance to our Good King leads to human flourishing, being fully human (what Adam lost, what Jesus is!)
As Jesus proclaims divine wisdom and instruction from this mountain we see him not as a tyrant-King, but as a sage-king.
Wisdom that leads to flourishing is gushing out of him!
As he constituted a people for himself at Sinai - To be a priestly nation, a light to the world.
So now, he’s re-constituting a people, his people, to a people of light, life, and wisdom in a dark, dead world of foolishness.
5:17-20
I have come - Jesus has come as Moses (prophet), Israel (priest), David (King), and especially as YHWH, returned to Zion!
NOT abolish the Law or Prophets, but to fulfill.
This means that the Scriptures where pointing to something!
Jesus is the embodiment of that something.
Jesus accomplishes and is accomplishing the Law and the prophets.
The story God is telling finds its climax in the person of Jesus.
He’s bringing the OT to its true and full destination.
The law and the prophets are always straining forward towards something eschatological something beyond themselves.
As Jesus stands in the place of YHWH, giving divine wisdom and instruction, people could say, wait what about the OT, what about the Torah?
I have rules in my house.
Rules that lead to thriving and flourishing (not arbitrary rules).
When you’re 7 you can’t touch the stove.
When you’re 17 you’ll be cooking.
As my girls grow in to new phases of life, the rules will take new shapes.
Don’t pour boiling water on your face still stands either way as my intention underneath the rule.
HERE’S THE WHAMMY! (vs.
20) Righteous - is doing the right thing.
In the biblical context it is covenant loyalty.
An embodied whole-person allegiance to our divine King.
People who live their lives disregarding God’s wisdom and instruction, disregard the way of life and goodness.
This righteousness Jesus is speaking of is not just some right-standing with God that doesn’t have feat on the ground, it is behavioral.
How you live.
Look at vs. 16!
Pharisees are the religious conservatives (history of idolatrous Israel).
But they’ve slipped into fundamentalism (surface/outward oriented) White-washed tombs.
Their “righteousness” their embodied covenant loyalty is only half-embodied!
This is what makes someone a hypocrite.
This leads to death not life!
They are trying to tell the 17 year old that they’re not allowed to touch the stove, when Jesus is ready for his people to cook meals for the poor!
5:21-48
The inner person.
Heart (cf.
Mt. 15:1-20) LOVE.
(the entirety of the Law and Prophets - Mt 22:36-40)
6 examples of “Greater righteousness”
NT Scholar JP argues: Not “antithesis” but “exegesis” - explaining true intent of the law.
Whole-Person loving loyalty to Jesus
Murder - ANGER (heart)
Adultery - Lust (“in his heart”)
Divorce (hardness of heart)
Oaths (what comes out of your mouth/heart)
Retaliation - Heart adjustment!
Toward serving.
Love Your Enemies
Perfect = “Whole” or “Complete” - Whole-person righteousness, not just external.
Conclusion
We can avoid the inner realities of our heart.
We do this either by focusing on our outward behavior, or, (especially prominent now because of advances in technology) by escaping into alternate realities…which leads to inward AND outward deterioration.
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