Jesus rebukes the Pharisees for applying instructions for the judges of Israel to their personal behavior. They claim they can be as proportionally vi...

Since we rarely make oaths today, there doesn’t seem to be much to learn from Matthew 5:33-37. However, Jesus is speaking to a deeper issue than telli...

Both Moses and Jesus recognize that we sinners are going to fail in our marriages and so they allowed divorce with some regulations. Moses did not mea...

The Pharisees consider themselves blameless before the law if they have refrained from physically committing adultery. But Jesus says righteousness re...

Lecture notes: https://www.wednesdayintheword.com/matthew25/ The Pharisees believe they are righteous because no court can convict them of murder. But...

In the second section of this sermon Jesus warns that our righteousness must exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees. Unlike them, we must have a gen...

People marked by the being poor in spirit, mourning over sin, hungering for righteousness, pursuing peace and mercy, etc. will draw the hostility of t...

Like the merciful, those commit the costly act of refusing to answer injury for injury and seeking a peaceful reconciliation instead will find their i...

The pure in heart are not those who are morally perfect. Rather their hearts have been cleansed of rebellion and rejection of God. The pure in heart l...

Only those will to commit the costly act of being merciful will receive mercy in the kingdom of God, because showing mercy is an implication of having...