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[997.58 --> 1005.96] And then he adds this, all the law and the prophets hang on these two commands.
[1005.96 --> 1015.20] The law and the prophets in the Old Testament was always about forming a people who love God and love their neighbor.
[1016.16 --> 1021.44] And Jesus is coming to draw out what that looks like, show it in his ministry, and then we're going to see in a minute,
[1021.98 --> 1026.04] enable his followers to live it out and experience life.
[1027.40 --> 1028.52] Are you with me so far?
[1029.32 --> 1029.86] All right.
[1029.92 --> 1033.04] Now we're going to get to the warning.
[1033.04 --> 1037.40] But actually, before I touch on that, I want to name that in the Sermon on the Mount,
[1037.52 --> 1042.14] Jesus constantly pushes against the Pharisees in this particular way.
[1042.22 --> 1045.34] They made the laws about sort of behavior, and he drives to the motive.
[1045.76 --> 1046.98] And this is a very important part.
[1047.40 --> 1049.12] Jesus says, you have heard it said, right?
[1049.16 --> 1049.70] There's these lines.
[1049.80 --> 1051.24] You have heard it said, but I say to you.
[1051.46 --> 1052.90] You have heard it said, do not murder.
[1053.02 --> 1053.86] What does Jesus say?
[1054.82 --> 1056.60] But I say to you, do not hate your neighbor.
[1057.86 --> 1059.22] It's not just enough not to murder.
[1059.44 --> 1060.82] It's dealing with the hate in our hearts.
[1060.82 --> 1062.88] You have heard it said, do not commit adultery.
[1063.02 --> 1068.04] But I say to you, deal with the lust in your heart that leads to adultery.
[1068.80 --> 1072.20] You have heard it said, love your friends and hate your enemies.
[1072.32 --> 1076.68] But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
[1076.98 --> 1077.90] Do you see the movement there?
[1078.64 --> 1087.92] Jesus constantly draws out the deeper meaning of the law, which is the desires of the heart that lead to these behaviors that are destructive.
[1087.92 --> 1094.90] He's dealing with the deeper movements of the heart, dealing with the love of God and love of neighbor as he gives a sermon on the mount.
[1094.90 --> 1099.32] And like a good parent, maybe this is a helpful illustration.
[1100.40 --> 1108.72] A good parent, when they give rules in their home, there's a lot of parents here, you know that when you give rules, you don't do it haphazardly.
[1108.90 --> 1112.72] And sometimes, you know, you put them in place so they can, you protect your kids and their safety.
[1112.84 --> 1114.38] You don't want them burning their hand on the stove.
[1114.38 --> 1121.48] But ultimately, what you want is you want your child to desire to obey those rules because it's good for them, right?
[1121.54 --> 1124.96] You don't want them just having sort of a legalistic requirement having to obey the rule.
[1125.04 --> 1128.68] You want them to want to follow because it leads to life.
[1129.02 --> 1132.08] That's how we understand the laws and the prophets in the Old Testament.
[1133.98 --> 1138.74] Now let's talk about the second difficult part of this passage, righteousness.
[1139.96 --> 1141.38] Look at verse 20 with me.
[1141.38 --> 1156.66] Now, I don't know how you read that, but that's a hard saying, isn't it?
[1157.52 --> 1159.60] That's a very strong statement.
[1160.46 --> 1165.42] And you need to know that the Pharisees were like the uber-zealous, uber-righteous people.
[1165.96 --> 1168.74] Like they were the ones who went far beyond what was required of them.
[1168.74 --> 1171.14] Their obedience seemed to exceed that of everyone else.
[1171.38 --> 1172.96] It kind of feels like this.
[1173.38 --> 1177.56] It's like a teacher of a classroom full of kids saying to all the kids who are average,
[1178.00 --> 1184.40] hey, you need to be just as smart and keen as Johnny Know-It-All in the front row who's raising his hand and answering every question.
[1184.84 --> 1186.02] You all need to be like that.
[1186.06 --> 1189.32] And you're like, okay, well, how could we possibly do that?
[1190.34 --> 1192.46] But we've got to figure out what Jesus means by righteous.
[1192.46 --> 1198.36] And we start by recognizing that Jesus helps us understand with another passage in Matthew.
[1199.12 --> 1200.28] Little sidebar on this.
[1200.66 --> 1206.36] Whenever there's a confusing passage, the wider context of the gospel and the Bible usually helps us understand it.
[1206.42 --> 1212.86] In this case, in Matthew 23, Jesus gives some of his harshest words to the Pharisees.
[1212.86 --> 1217.58] The people who thought they were righteous, who thought they had it together, Jesus just shreds them.
[1218.02 --> 1219.02] Three things he calls them.
[1219.08 --> 1220.26] Number one, he calls them blind.
[1221.34 --> 1223.18] Secondly, listen to this one, he calls them snakes.
[1223.86 --> 1224.66] Those are fighting words.
[1225.02 --> 1228.78] Thirdly, perhaps the most pungent, he says, you are like whitewashed tombs.
[1228.78 --> 1236.54] Now, maybe that doesn't have power in our context today, but think of this, a whitewashed tombs, very clean on the outside, a dead corpse on the inside.
[1237.20 --> 1240.12] There is a reason why these people started banding together to kill Jesus.
[1240.24 --> 1243.96] He was not easy on them, and he had some very harsh words for them.
[1244.04 --> 1245.16] And part of it is this.
[1245.98 --> 1253.46] He knew that they were preoccupied with sort of adherence to the law, but their hearts were far from him.
[1253.46 --> 1258.94] He knew that they were preoccupied with behaviors, but their motives, their desires were far from him.
[1259.22 --> 1264.42] And he knew that they were twisting and abusing the law to segregate and then hate their neighbors who are Romans.
[1264.72 --> 1267.08] And Jesus says to them, you're missing all of it.
[1267.56 --> 1269.34] You're missing why the law was given.
[1269.80 --> 1274.92] All the stuff you're doing is still not what God desires.
[1275.92 --> 1277.78] He's after the deeper movements of the heart.
[1277.78 --> 1284.00] He's after obedience that comes from love for God and for neighbor.
[1285.66 --> 1290.18] And if you're just reading for the Bible for the first time, you'll know that, first of all, Jesus is always relational.
[1291.16 --> 1293.54] And at the heart of his laws is love.
[1295.36 --> 1300.16] Now, Gerald Johnson says that one of the central pieces of the Sermon on the Mount is this word righteous.
[1301.02 --> 1303.52] In the Beatitudes, the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount, God says,
[1303.52 --> 1306.94] Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.
[1307.78 --> 1311.42] Blessed are you who are persecuted because of righteousness.
[1311.82 --> 1314.40] And I don't know what comes to your head when you hear the word righteous.
[1314.62 --> 1317.34] It has many layers to it in some sense, justice.
[1317.78 --> 1323.66] But I want to suggest to you the best way to understand it is right relatedness.
[1324.98 --> 1328.20] Those who are righteous are in right relationship.
[1328.40 --> 1331.00] And the righteous to Jesus are in right relationship with the Father.
[1331.42 --> 1333.96] The righteous in Jesus are in right relationship with neighbor.
[1333.96 --> 1336.20] Right relationship with the non-human creation.
[1336.52 --> 1338.40] And right relationship with self.
[1339.32 --> 1342.54] And as Jesus gives the Sermon on the Mount and many other teachings in the Gospel,
[1342.88 --> 1348.18] He's constantly teaching on what it looks like to be in the right relationship with the Father.
[1348.86 --> 1350.12] Right relationship with neighbor.
[1350.52 --> 1351.86] Self and creation.
[1352.50 --> 1354.10] How to be generous and just.
[1354.20 --> 1355.24] How to speak truthfully.
[1355.30 --> 1356.22] How to love our spouse.
[1356.54 --> 1357.16] Love our kids.
[1357.40 --> 1357.96] Love our neighbors.
[1358.22 --> 1359.84] What shalom looks like in community.
[1359.84 --> 1362.80] He's teaching us this is what righteousness looks like.
[1363.04 --> 1367.50] More than that, He's showing us with His own life what righteousness looks like.
[1369.04 --> 1374.52] And if you're curious, you should know that Jesus in many ways in the Sermon on the Mount
[1374.52 --> 1378.28] is upping the requirement from what the Pharisees even thought.
[1379.22 --> 1381.94] Jesus is saying, I'm not abolishing the law and starting something new.
[1382.12 --> 1384.28] I'm actually drawing out the deepest intentions.
[1384.52 --> 1386.94] And that's the kind of righteousness I want from you.