WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.000 Welcome. Just hand Away tagalog sermon podcast. Your Daily does 2 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:13.439 am inspiring, heartfelt tagalog sermons from different pastors and speakers 3 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:16.719 all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast finds. 4 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:24.640 You in good shame and now here's your message. You're 5 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:30.079 listening to a podcast from Victory Jesus is the fulfillment 6 00:00:30.199 --> 00:00:34.000 of the law. Discover more about this truth. In week 7 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:43.079 three of our series Redefined, they were going to. 8 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:46.799 Be talking about law and righteousness. I love law. I 9 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:49.920 love law. I thought I was going to be a lawyer, okay, 10 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:52.159 except I found out that you have to memory so 11 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:55.640 many stuff and read so many stuff when growing When 12 00:00:55.640 --> 00:01:01.000 I was growing up, I love reading and and following 13 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:03.200 Perry Mason. I don't know if you know him. That's 14 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.079 way back Perry Mason. And then I have tons and 15 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:08.959 tons of books on John Grisham, okay, all about the law. 16 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:15.439 And then I follow a Law, he Law Magaga Age Style, 17 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:20.159 then a Law and Order, and then now Suits My 18 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:24.159 Famousness and a series now Suits talk about lawyers. But 19 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:27.640 I love law. But then I know that it's so 20 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:31.079 hard to comply with all the loss. Even though you 21 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:34.359 have a big library of all the laws, you cannot 22 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:38.000 fully comply it. You cannot fully comply one hundred percent. 23 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:43.359 You cannot be perfect. When we talk about righteousness, righteousness 24 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:46.599 is not actually based on complying to the laws, but 25 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.799 it talks to about our heart. Yes, we have to 26 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:52.239 comply with the law as much as we can, all 27 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:55.280 the civil laws, all the loss, we have to comply. 28 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:00.480 But then it's different if we are after God's righteous 29 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:03.760 I love how Chill said it earlier, that the righteousness 30 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:06.640 was given to us is not ours. It was given 31 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:10.840 to us. It was imputed to us by Jesus Christ. 32 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:15.680 It's his righteousness. Let's read Matthew five seventeen to eighteen. 33 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:21.560 These are texts. If you have your Bible, check your 34 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:26.199 Bible with me. If not, you can read from the screen. 35 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:28.879 Do not think that I have come to abolish the 36 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:32.639 law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish them, 37 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:36.080 but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, 38 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:39.719 until heaven and earth passed away, not an iota that 39 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:44.599 a dot will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Therefore, 40 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:49.120 whoever relaxes of this one of the leavests of these 41 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:52.639 commandments and teaches others to do the same will be 42 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:55.960 called the least in the Kingdom of heaven. But whoever 43 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:59.439 does them and teaches them will be great in the 44 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:03.039 Kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness 45 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:06.439 exceeds that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you will 46 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:10.080 never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The question when when 47 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:13.039 I was doing this peaching, question that always pops up 48 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:16.599 in my mind is this, can we actually meet God's 49 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:25.840 standard of righteousness? Can we the rules mak ayatai in righteousness, 50 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:30.919 rules and regulations? And then oftentime, oftentimes I don't know. 51 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:33.840 In our case, I would I would always hear my 52 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:43.560 mom or my dad said, expect hindi hind papantai and 53 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:55.000 mulang pantailang. My famous line that kulan expectation. But what 54 00:03:55.159 --> 00:04:01.240 is God's expectation towards us? Is it compliance? Is it 55 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:03.800 simply adherence to the law? Adherence to the law means 56 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:07.039 para check list by what law check by? What law 57 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:11.280 check by? What law check? Is it? That way? I 58 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:15.680 found this article interestingly online when it said why intelligent 59 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:19.839 people are less likely to be religious thin context that 60 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:23.079 religious data is best in the church. Okay, I'm not 61 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:25.920 sure if it's Christianity or really relate or real or 62 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:32.759 genuine relationship with God. Okay, so think that so indigas smart? 63 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:37.000 Is that? Do you think that's true? I don't know. 64 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:40.920 It's based on a survey, based on a study. But 65 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:46.120 what it actually is implying is this that people people 66 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:50.680 people nowadays, they would you pour pass some nila is 67 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:55.600 to Bible word God. Most of the time, it's it's 68 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:59.879 those puzzling questions, is it true? Is it not true? 69 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:05.839 How true it is is if historical evidence doesn't talk 70 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:10.279 about faith, doesn't talk about faith, talks about intellect, doesn't 71 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:14.439 even talk about heart. It's all pure in the mind. 72 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:19.680 The tension there is the authority and relevancy of God's 73 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:24.439 word to our human opinion and reason. And guess what, 74 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:32.879 our mind is so finite, masqu you cannot comprehend God 75 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:37.000 because he's so big, it's so vast. That's why it 76 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:41.040 has to take lots of faith. The Bible even said 77 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:44.680 that we are faith. We don't actually see it, but 78 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:48.000 do we complain, No, we don't complaind we follow. We 79 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:51.000 follow because we know in our heart that He is 80 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:54.480 our Lord and our shavior. That's the problem. With the Pharisees. 81 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:57.839 As we go through the book of the whole Bible, 82 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:01.560 you see pharisees. Pharisees are those coten quote religious people 83 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:07.199 Selenahan twenty four to seven, Selena salles a sacrifice, but 84 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:12.639 they don't have a relationship with God. First verse Matthew 85 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:14.839 five seventeen. Do not think that I have come to 86 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:17.800 abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come 87 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:23.800 to abolish them. Why abolish? They said, abolish? Do what 88 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:26.439 do they want to abolish the law because they believe 89 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:30.120 in Jesus. I hope that was the case, but it's not. 90 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:34.040 They want to abolish the law. Why because they cannot 91 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:39.160 comply too much? Sobrang damming law? Sobran damming? Can you 92 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:43.879 can you imagine? Okay? Ten commandments? Alang? But after ten 93 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.040 the ten commments, the law is six hundred and thirteen laws. 94 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:52.639 How would you comply each one? Ten commandments memorized by 95 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:57.319 six hundred and thirteen the lass. It's so hard for 96 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:00.879 them to comply. That's why they said abolish the law. 97 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:03.040 Since you said that you are the son of God, 98 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:05.240 You're coming here to save us, Why do you just 99 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.480 abolish the law? They want an easy way out. They 100 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:15.399 they needed an escape goat and see Jesus Lord save 101 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:21.560 it called an escape My prayer, my prayer is that 102 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:25.720 what we won't be like those Pharisees, that we don't 103 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:32.519 come to church because we want an escape coat. Tell 104 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:36.920 you loud, it's between you and God. My prayer is 105 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:40.399 that you're doing victory group, hypership, victory weekend, that you're 106 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:46.399 serving not to try to find an escape coat, but 107 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:50.279 rather it is an overflow of your heart because you understand, 108 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:53.399 because you love, because Jesus is in you, and it's 109 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:56.639 there's an outworking in us. So how about the law 110 00:07:56.399 --> 00:08:03.199 and Malona the mini mentioned DeTao the law in Matthew 111 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:07.199 talking about three kinds of law ceremonial law, civil law 112 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:12.560 and moral in ceremonial if you're you have your Bible 113 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:22.240 Leviticus in Leviticus or or when I was starting up. 114 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:28.199 But they think on the Leviticus Deuteronomy numbers numbers, no, 115 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:32.600 but it's important. Here are the ceremonial loss example a 116 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:37.600 few example laws for burnt offering. There's even loss for 117 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:43.519 grain offerings. Their loss for peace offerings example peace offering. 118 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:51.120 My law law for sin offering and different sin, offering 119 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:56.200 law for guilt offerings, even law for offerings, offerings, offerings, 120 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:59.720 offerings law, ceremonial laws. Hey, we do we we We 121 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:02.240 don't imply with them anymore. We don't do it. Why 122 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:08.000 because Jesus died and rose for all of those. Can 123 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:10.799 you imagine if we're still adhering to the ceremonial loss 124 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:21.519 every time and madadatupa aloya? Can you imagine that's gonna 125 00:09:21.559 --> 00:09:26.120 Happeno comes, bone floor, nothing to go on. Second kind 126 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:29.200 of law is the civil law, civil law that applies 127 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:35.879 to daily living, Okay, daily living. Example Dito Deuteronomy twenty 128 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:42.919 four loss concerning divorce, miscellaneous laws. When a man is 129 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:45.799 newly married, he shall not go out with the army 130 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:49.080 or be liable for any other public duty. He shall 131 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:51.480 be free at home one year to be happy with 132 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:56.080 his wife, whom he has taken mammagnum loss. Because of 133 00:09:56.120 --> 00:10:01.919 our modern society, it doesn't it doesn't makes sense anymore 134 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:04.600 to us. The last kind of law is the moral law, 135 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:08.799 such as the Ten Commandments. Moral law is the direct 136 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:13.159 command of God, and it requires strict obedience. And even 137 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:17.919 Jesus was very strict with this that he complies that 138 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:22.919 he does all the laws. Problemen of Pharisees Paris is 139 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:28.879 that baas baas even to today, one of the ten commandments, 140 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:36.440 keep your sabbath holy. Okay, alumn you bah you might 141 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:40.879 juice because if it's their sabbath, they cannot put on 142 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:49.799 their false teeth. Pushtiso because it's like you're working when 143 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:52.919 you go when you go to the Israel. Now, if 144 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:57.399 it's sabbath, nobody would push the the the the elevator 145 00:10:57.559 --> 00:11:00.639 to go up. Why because it's lifting their hand and 146 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:03.840 its work in its work. So what they do is 147 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:13.159 they wait for tourists or gentiles like us, but they know, 148 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:18.879 what do you Florila, let's have it didn't work, peninsula. 149 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:24.320 We add, we try to water it down. We add 150 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:27.759 things to feel like that makes sense, but or it 151 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:32.120 doesn't make sense. Today. Three things I want to explain 152 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:39.080 with the our texts is the pop of the law, purpose, observance, 153 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:43.639 and perfectory. The purpose of the law, observance of the law, 154 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:47.720 and the perfector of the law. Talk about purpose, What 155 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:50.559 is the purpose? All about? Purpose is important. If we 156 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:53.399 don't know the purpose, it's hard to obey. If we 157 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:56.120 don't know what the law is there, for he is 158 00:11:56.759 --> 00:11:59.240 example in our house. Okay, every time we would make 159 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:02.360 a new rule or new regulations in the house, we 160 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:05.440 have to talk on it on our dinner table. I 161 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:11.320 already have two grown son fifteen and seventeen years old. Said, 162 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:15.200 it's a conversation. Lara's there, but Lara's just listening and 163 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:19.200 she doesn't know anything in the hand. But we have 164 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:21.519 to set them down and tell them this is the 165 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:23.600 new rule, and then we have to go through it. 166 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:27.799 Why why is this important now? Because this is our 167 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:31.360 season if we need to do built tightening, why because 168 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:35.200 we're saving up for this purpose. We need to look 169 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:37.679 at the purpose of the law in order to understand 170 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:41.519 what Jesus means in his declaration. And his purpose is 171 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:44.399 not to harm us. His purpose is not to limit 172 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:47.639 us un a problem. Sometimes when we see law, what 173 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:53.320 comes into our mind? ISLI have you heard a lot 174 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:55.840 of people They don't want to give their lives to 175 00:12:55.960 --> 00:13:01.919 Jesus because they would always say, hey, Bible, bawl dito 176 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:11.600 bowelram promises cal Roman seven verse seven said, what then 177 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:15.000 shall we say that the law is sin by no means? 178 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.360 Yet if he had if it had not been for 179 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:20.960 the law, I would not have known sin, for I 180 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:24.039 would not have known what it is to covet if 181 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:27.559 the law had not said you shall not covet. Paul 182 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:31.639 here in this passage explains that the law is not bad, 183 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:36.120 it is not sin, but it points people their sin, 184 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:41.759 our sin. If you look at it, the law is 185 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:45.559 like a mirror. Okay, it's it's like a mirror. And 186 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:49.879 every time we consult the law, it shows us how 187 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:53.320 sinful we are and how we are so much in 188 00:13:53.440 --> 00:14:00.559 need of a savior. That's the purpose of the law. Sindarica, 189 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:05.879 guess what, because you're a sinner, I'm gonna give you 190 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:09.279 a savior. For those who don't treat their Bible, for 191 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:12.120 those who who don't like to surrender their lives, they 192 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:16.120 miss a big part. That's not all about us being sinful, 193 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:20.799 but God given God has given us a savior. The 194 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:22.960 Lord therefore tells us that we are sinners and the 195 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:26.399 need of savior. It actually shows us the impossibility of 196 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:30.559 acquiring our own righteousness by simply obeying to the laws 197 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:35.799 that we cannot do for our own. In Romans three, 198 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:38.600 verse twenty, it said, therefore, by the deeds of the law, 199 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:41.679 there shall be no flesh be justified in his side. 200 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:45.559 For the law is the knowledge of sin. It opens 201 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:53.960 our mind, it makes us aware next verse eighteen. For verified, 202 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:57.120 I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass one 203 00:14:57.240 --> 00:15:02.279 job and one title. Shall is no wise pass from 204 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:06.360 the law till all be fulfilled. King James version. I 205 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:11.000 love how he said there even a jot even or 206 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:17.600 one title. When they translated the Bible into English. You 207 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:26.000 Hebrewsma annotations Marsileama, my apostrophe, my one line inverted V. 208 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:31.759 It's simply saying that what even the smallest detail of 209 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.320 God's law, we have to comply, even the smallest detail. 210 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:39.600 No if no, But look in Deuteronomy six twenty five, 211 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:42.000 and he said, and it will be righteousness for us 212 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:45.919 if we are careful to do what to do, all, 213 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:49.440 to do all this commandment before the Lord, our God, 214 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:53.480 and he commanded us. It's all. We cannot make an excuse. 215 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:56.639 We cannot just say, okay, it doesn't comply to me 216 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:59.240 if you do that. If we do that, we are 217 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:06.000 no exception, no difference with the Pharisees verse nineteen. Therefore, 218 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:09.480 anyone who sets aside one of the least of these 219 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:13.080 commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in 220 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:16.360 the kingdom of heaven. But whoever practices and teaches these 221 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:19.200 commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 222 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:22.120 How many of you when you go to heaven you 223 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:24.720 want to be great? Of course, all of us wants 224 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:29.639 to be great. It gave us already afford days. Do 225 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:33.679 not set it aside. It means comply everything. It means 226 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:38.639 give up your heart and obey obedience. You know, there 227 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:44.399 are several several what they called there several responses of 228 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:48.519 people with the law about being righteous. Some would actually 229 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:52.919 reject it, reject it as obsolete. Hey, by Bollyan by 230 00:16:53.000 --> 00:17:05.160 Billyan Totoya, I understand it's true, but absolute Niana Babasania Canal. 231 00:17:05.759 --> 00:17:10.759 There's a new version. It's not about the the the interpretation, 232 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:14.759 but it's what you consume in your heart. The veracity 233 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:18.039 of the Bible has been verified to stand the test 234 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:22.720 of time, and it would always remain. The question now 235 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:26.880 is if it's irrelevant to you. Why is it irrelevant? 236 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:30.039 Maybe it's because you don't want to comply. Next, is 237 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:33.440 we we Actually some people would try to modify it, 238 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:38.079 like the pharisees adjust, adjust to it. Can imagine the 239 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:46.640 Ten Commandments, obeying parent history, in success history, in sabad, 240 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:52.559 I'll keep it holy murder murders or murder parent, honor God, 241 00:17:52.599 --> 00:18:02.599 young young people. Yeah, because malas we we try to modify. 242 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:05.319 We we sometimes we look at Christianity as like a 243 00:18:05.319 --> 00:18:18.559 buffet depending bucket paras diva. Guys, don't don't don't drink 244 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:24.359 why you get full, but I'm thirsty. Soup soup soup love. 245 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:29.440 Don't don't eat rice, Why it's carb is gonna make 246 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:32.960 you bloated, But but that there's there, there's sauce. There's 247 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:39.559 need to go on. Sometimes we do that. Sometimes we 248 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:41.519 do that even in our Christian walk, we try to 249 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:45.039 modify it. Some people are just oblivious, they don't care, 250 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:48.519 they don't care with what's happening all around. And some 251 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:53.160 are very legalistic. Legalistic means okay, I adhere to the law. 252 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:56.279 I do not set it aside. But it's too much. 253 00:18:56.319 --> 00:19:00.599 It's like the law is my God. That's bad also 254 00:19:01.160 --> 00:19:04.839 because nobody and nothing should take the place of God 255 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:09.319 in our lives and teaches others accordingly. My prayer is 256 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:12.440 this that we teach, we tell people. We show people 257 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:15.960 that they see it in us. You know, what's the 258 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:18.039 purpose of the law? Is it to be great? Not 259 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:20.720 here on earth, but in the kingdom of Him. We 260 00:19:20.839 --> 00:19:25.960 really fine thinking say that what matters most is our obedience, 261 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:29.279 our heart for God. In Matthew six thirty three, it said, 262 00:19:29.559 --> 00:19:32.960 seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. Not 263 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:36.319 all the success, all your success, not all your good grades, 264 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:41.240 their good, not all your richest No, but said seek 265 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:43.880 first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all 266 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:47.680 this shall be added unto you. Everything else is a bonus. 267 00:19:47.799 --> 00:19:52.079 I always say this after Christianity. Everything else is a bonus. 268 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:56.440 Seeing life life, Hey on, bonus, nlan yan, because you're 269 00:19:56.440 --> 00:20:00.920 already complete in christ indecana promote. Oh hey long ya, 270 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:05.920 God has something better for you. Seek him first, and 271 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:09.920 everything else will be added unto you. Next is observance. 272 00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:14.319 Remember pop, what's the first one purpose? And then now 273 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:17.240 we observe? How do we observe? In verse twenty said, 274 00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:20.480 for I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that 275 00:20:20.519 --> 00:20:24.000 of the Pharisees, like we make, we make a search 276 00:20:24.039 --> 00:20:26.160 onto the pharies a while ago. We tell them how 277 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:28.759 they define themselves We'll tell them how they how they 278 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:33.480 try to comply, but they adjust things. Jesus saying, here, 279 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:37.279 do not be like them, direct naon in the Sermon 280 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:39.359 of the Mouth, some of the Pharisees were actually there. 281 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:43.240 Can you imagine scenario. My people don't be like them. 282 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:48.720 I sort my people do not be like them, because 283 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:52.160 they know, they see, they see, they see, they know, 284 00:20:52.359 --> 00:20:56.839 they they saw how the Pharisees live. And He's saying, 285 00:20:56.880 --> 00:20:59.880 do not be like them, and the teachers of the 286 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:04.359 you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven. This 287 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:09.240 shows the impossibility of making one's righteousness before God. Pharisees, 288 00:21:09.319 --> 00:21:14.519 they have a work salvation mentality. You know that work, work, work, 289 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:16.680 work righte work your way out here, work your way 290 00:21:16.720 --> 00:21:19.599 to heaven. Work with your way. It works salvation. But 291 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:22.680 in Asaiah sixty four, verse six, it said all of 292 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:26.160 us have become like one who is unclean, and all 293 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:31.160 our righteous acts are like filthy rags. We all shrivel 294 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:35.720 up like a leaf, and like the wind, our sins 295 00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:41.119 sweep us away where it's like filthy rags. Even though 296 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:44.960 we do good works, it still feel and it still smell, 297 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:48.480 and it still looks like filthy rags. It's saying that 298 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:53.519 it's impossible to please God apart from Jesus Christ, apart 299 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:58.759 from our faith, apart from our journey and walk with 300 00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:03.160 the Lord. Everything else is like filthy rct. The scripture 301 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:07.079 teaches us repeatedly that sinners are capable of nothing but 302 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:12.000 flawed and imperfect righteousness. But thanks be to God that 303 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:16.000 he gave Jesus to us. Therefore, the only righteousness by 304 00:22:16.039 --> 00:22:19.880 which sinners may be justified is the perfect righteousness of God, 305 00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:24.000 imputed in us through Jesus. Romance four. And to the 306 00:22:24.039 --> 00:22:26.440 one who does not work but believes in Him who 307 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:31.240 justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as what as righteousness, 308 00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:35.000 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the 309 00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:40.039 one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works importante 310 00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:45.079 deader see David. Why did Paul use David? Because we 311 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:49.200 know that David is after God's heart, But we also 312 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:54.440 know that David did so many sin Remember but Sheba, 313 00:22:56.160 --> 00:23:00.519 remember Rayah, he did all of those. But he's making 314 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:04.119 a point here. I am not after how clean or 315 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:08.960 perfect we are. You are the Lord, say I take 316 00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:15.160 you as it is, as you are if David still, 317 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:18.119 I look at somebody who is after my heart, So 318 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:22.559 are you, Church. Do not be also too hard on yourself. 319 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:28.559 That is not from the Lord. When the Lord says 320 00:23:28.599 --> 00:23:31.759 that I will not count any sin, he says, I 321 00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:36.400 will not count and record any of our sins. Do 322 00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:39.680 not be too hard on us. We have to understand 323 00:23:39.799 --> 00:23:44.119 how loving, how faithful, how Yes, there's justice, but there's 324 00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:48.240 mercy in the Lord. And then Paul continued, Blessed are 325 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:52.519 those whose lawless deeds are forgiven and whose sins are covered. 326 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:56.160 Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not 327 00:23:56.359 --> 00:24:01.319 count his sin. It has to penetrate our heart. Jesus 328 00:24:01.400 --> 00:24:04.279 was saying that his listens that to his listeners that 329 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:08.000 you need to have a different approach, different thing on 330 00:24:08.119 --> 00:24:12.880 on on love and obedience. Love and obedience is one 331 00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:17.079 and the same. It's it cannot just be love and 332 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:20.079 then obey. It cannot just be you're obeying, but you 333 00:24:20.119 --> 00:24:24.039 don't love it. Our righteousness must first and foremost draw 334 00:24:24.119 --> 00:24:28.839 from what God did not on our us. If there's 335 00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:33.000 love and obedience, it has to be God centered, not 336 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:37.279 self centered. Your righteousness not intel centered than God. Lord. 337 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:40.240 And in purpose, money Wilmo. If it's not, it's not 338 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:43.599 love and obedience. It has to it has to be 339 00:24:43.680 --> 00:24:46.880 based on the reference of God, that we are pleasing God, 340 00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:54.240 not men example Nacole. Every time we we we tell 341 00:24:54.279 --> 00:24:57.599 them to comply, we always ask, every time we we 342 00:24:57.720 --> 00:25:01.240 discipline them, we always ask, do you have anything to say? 343 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:05.519 Is it? Is it okay with you? As in pure 344 00:25:05.759 --> 00:25:10.599 a heart? Discipline at all? Because if it's not, let's 345 00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:15.720 talk about it. We're always after the heart, not the obedience, 346 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:23.880 obedience out towards parapharracies, behavioral modification, and guess what after 347 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:27.559 we forget, we stumble down. If we don't correct our heart, 348 00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:31.839 it would recur. It would always check our heart. I 349 00:25:31.880 --> 00:25:38.960 love how how how Jonathan Edwards said. Pastor Jonathan and 350 00:25:39.119 --> 00:25:41.720 Doctor Jonathan Edwards said that the Gospel is to be 351 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:45.880 preached as well as the law. We will we don't abolish, 352 00:25:45.960 --> 00:25:48.680 you don't put one aside. And the law is to 353 00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:50.839 be preached only to make the way for the what 354 00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:53.559 for the Gospel, Because if we know that we're so 355 00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:56.799 sinful and in need of a savior, we need Jesus Christ. 356 00:25:57.039 --> 00:25:59.640 We need the Gospel, and in order that it may 357 00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:05.640 be each more Effectively, the Gospel without the law is 358 00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:12.359 that perfect both has to be there. Jesus is pointing 359 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:16.400 out that he came to do what nobody else can. 360 00:26:17.599 --> 00:26:22.759 Last point, here is perfector. Who is the perfector Jesus Christ. 361 00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:27.920 He's the perfector of our faith. But to fulfill them. 362 00:26:28.119 --> 00:26:32.039 Fulfill here means to make us complete, to make it complete. 363 00:26:32.599 --> 00:26:37.079 Jesus came to complete the law. Jesus was actually saying 364 00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:40.279 that all the laws that were written is still in 365 00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:43.880 It was incomplete. Why because I am the fulfillment of 366 00:26:43.920 --> 00:26:47.240 the law. When I say I was prophesying, he was 367 00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:51.160 talking about Jesus. When when When when Moses was given 368 00:26:51.240 --> 00:26:55.519 the law, there was a promise and a completion in 369 00:26:55.640 --> 00:27:00.960 Christ alone the Lord is coming. When even before Jesus 370 00:27:01.079 --> 00:27:05.039 was born, they knew that there was a messiah to come. 371 00:27:05.400 --> 00:27:09.920 He completes it. Redefined means that this speaks of fulfillment 372 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:13.920 in the same sense that the prophecy is fulfilled. Christ 373 00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:18.759 indicates that he fulfills the law in all aspects, whether 374 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:22.799 it be civil law, whether it be ceremonial law, whether 375 00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:26.000 it be the moral law. It talks directly to our heart, 376 00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:30.799 makes it perfect. I love this quote. I borrow this 377 00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:34.599 from pastorally. Do you remember Pastor ly, I love this, 378 00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:39.279 And he said, the law points to our sins, as 379 00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:45.119 the prophets point to our savior. The completion what makes 380 00:27:45.160 --> 00:27:49.160 it complete? That means when you come to church and 381 00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:53.920 expect you to be complete. My prayer is that you 382 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:56.880 know that you have accepted the Lord as your savior, 383 00:27:57.160 --> 00:28:00.599 to make it complete. Because without Christ, what we're doing 384 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:05.720 here is nothing. It's nothing. John one sixteen, verse seventeen said, 385 00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:09.519 from the fullness of his grace, we have all received 386 00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:16.240 one blessing after another. Fullness. It's not partial. Fullness means complete. 387 00:28:16.759 --> 00:28:23.960 That He gave us the installment. My parents they love 388 00:28:24.039 --> 00:28:30.519 me because and all so misa installments happened. Alameen, okay, 389 00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:38.880 But my good grade ninety percent installment. No, what God 390 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:43.319 gave us, it's complete fullness in Christ. For the law 391 00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:47.880 was given through Moses. Grace and truth came from who 392 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:52.079 Jesus Christ. So there is no excuse. Now why can 393 00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:56.000 we be righteous because we're complete in Christ. The law 394 00:28:56.119 --> 00:29:00.880 was given through Moses, but grace, truth, now faith is 395 00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:04.119 given to us. This is our response. This is in 396 00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:11.440 Hebrews four fourteen to seventeen. It said, Since then we 397 00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:17.000 have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, 398 00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:20.519 the Son of God. Let us hold fast our confession. 399 00:29:20.839 --> 00:29:23.279 There's a big response that we have to take hold of. 400 00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:27.400 Hold fast means do not let go. Hold fast means 401 00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:30.400