Matthew

The final message in the series considers both sexual immorality and desertion as biblical allowances for divorce, then addresses remarriage after divorce. It urges the church to handle painful marriage questions under the full counsel of

Jesus names sexual immorality as the biblical exception in divorce while still upholding God's design for marriage. The sermon distinguishes lawful allowance from sinful divorce and warns that departing from Scripture multiplies harm in

Matthew 19 brings Jesus' teaching on divorce back to God's original design for marriage in Genesis. The sermon calls believers to become practical reformers who let Scripture correct the careless and permissive views common in both culture

Jesus confronts divorce and remarriage by calling his hearers to submit their assumptions, experiences, and traditions to the authority of Scripture. The message begins with the need to recover God's standard for marriage rather than follow

Scripture Authority

Concluding the study of Matthew 5:27-30, the message presses the impossibility of meeting God's standard of righteousness in one's own strength and points the guilty to the new birth as the only remedy, since only a heart made new in Christ

New Birth

Working through Matthew 5:27-28, the exposition presses past the outward act of adultery to Jesus' teaching that lustful intent is itself adultery of the heart, leaving every hearer guilty and in need of the mercy Christ showed the

Matthew 5 teaches that angry, contemptuous sinners cannot offer acceptable worship while refusing reconciliation. A murderer can worship only in Christ, who fulfills the law and makes sinners new creations.

Examining Matthew 5:21-22, the message shows that Jesus locates murder in the anger and contempt of the heart rather than merely the external act, exposing every hearer as guilty before God's true standard and in need of a savior.

New Birth

Jesus fulfills the Law and speaks with final authority over the righteousness of His kingdom. The Sermon on the Mount presses believers beyond external religion to heart-level obedience under Christ's standard.

Matthew 5:20 teaches that entrance into the kingdom requires a righteousness greater than human works or external religion. The righteousness Christ demands is impossible for sinners to produce and must come from God by grace through faith.