WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:08.960 Welcome Just hand Away Tagalog Sermon podcast. Your daily dose 2 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:12.919 am inspiring from heartfelt taglog sermons from different characters and 3 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:16.120 speakers all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast 4 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:21.839 finds you in good shape. And now here's your message. 5 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:29.440 You're listening to a podcast from Victory Jesus is the 6 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:33.679 fulfillment of the law. Discover more about this truth in 7 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:36.560 week three of our series Redefined. 8 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:45.520 So we're going to look at what the scholars say 9 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:48.240 is the heart of the sermon in the Mount. And 10 00:00:48.359 --> 00:00:51.759 my prayer is that we get this and understand this 11 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:59.119 in fact preaching, it's going to be easier for us 12 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:03.000 to un understand the next couple of weeks. I don't 13 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:06.439 know about you, but for the past weeks, the preaching 14 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:12.200 gets a bit harder. And imagine and Natama and I 15 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:18.120 we're gonna message, but I'm gra or this preaching really 16 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:21.079 hits us. Guess what in the next couple of weeks, 17 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:24.280 it's going to get harder and harder and more practical. 18 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:27.799 But if we understand the heart of the sermon in 19 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:31.519 the Mount, my prayer is we would see it in 20 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:34.920 a different way. And this is some scholars say the 21 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:37.680 heart of the Sermon in the Mount Matthew five, verses 22 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:41.200 seventeen to twenty. It says, here, do not think that 23 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:44.519 I've come to abolish the Law or the prophets. I 24 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:48.000 have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. 25 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:51.280 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth 26 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:55.439 pass away, not an ayota, not a dot, will pass away, 27 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:59.000 will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Therefore, 28 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:03.040 whoever lapses one of the least of these commandments and 29 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:06.120 teaches others to do the same, will be called least 30 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:09.680 in the Kingdom of heaven. But whoever does them and 31 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:12.680 teaches them, will be called great in the Kingdom of heaven. 32 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:16.919 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of 33 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:20.240 the scribes and the Pharisees, you will never enter the 34 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:23.199 Kingdom of Heaven. It says in this verse, verse seventeen, 35 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:26.080 do not think that I have come to abolish the 36 00:02:26.199 --> 00:02:28.560 law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish them, 37 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:31.159 but to fulfill them. The first thing that I want, 38 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:33.800 the first word that we have to look at, is 39 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:39.520 the word law. Because when you read the Bibles, is 40 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:45.039 a Bible made into makita, but us utus what does 41 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:47.680 the law mean? Now we know that our Bible is 42 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:52.240 divided into two, the New Testament and the Old Testament. 43 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:55.840 Now the Old Testament is generally also divided into two, 44 00:02:56.280 --> 00:02:58.680 the first five books of the Bible known as the 45 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:02.759 pentatouh or or some call it the Torah or the Law, 46 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:06.000 and the other half, the other part of the Bible 47 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:09.280 rather are called the prophets. So saving in Jesus, the 48 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:13.759 Law and the prophets generally the whole Old Testament. And 49 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:17.479 not only that, when we hear the word law, we 50 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:22.319 have this connotation utos or batas, And what's the law about? 51 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:27.960 The law basically has God's commandment for us and his 52 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:31.360 expectations for us to obey it. So when you look 53 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:34.039 at the law, the law is about commands that we 54 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:36.719 need to obey. Now, when I hear when I say 55 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:40.280 the word law or utos, some of us we don't 56 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:44.360 really like it, especially you know, if you're if you 57 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:49.120 would remember the number one enemies or the ny the 58 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:52.280 primary enemy of Jesus, or the Pharisees and the sad disease. 59 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:57.319 Those people really uphold the laws important in the law 60 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:00.319 that they have to come up with an ex a 61 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:04.280 set of laws to protect them from breaking the original 62 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:10.280 six hundred thirteen laws ten commandments, all right, sonap ten 63 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:13.759 command vents. So then don't push a law. And not 64 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:16.720 only that, menupand six hundred and thirteen other laws from 65 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:21.920 the Bible breaking loss and maa pharisees and sada seas. 66 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:27.639 They added extra law plama breaking law ni God. So 67 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:32.680 for them the law is something very important. But for us, 68 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:34.800 when we hear the word. 69 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:38.560 Law or utos, it makes us feel like grabbing a 70 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:43.439 man na pas streak, grabbing a manna old school grabbing 71 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:45.160 a man a paa backward thinking. 72 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:48.720 I don't know if you would remember, especially no no 73 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:56.959 mejo teenagers fatio mimautasatian parents natin gang we nang late 74 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:03.560 maga all right, or we come up boyfriend or girlfriend 75 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:08.560 nahaa graduate, Well come, I know what We'll come another TV. 76 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:16.759 I say internet, mahadua at the top on your own assignment. 77 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:20.680 And sometimes when we hear those laws, we're like crabbing 78 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:31.720 the man the man ma what you twelve midnight grah 79 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:36.720 the party is just starting? What boy, my boyfriend girlfriend? 80 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:45.319 Everyone does it. It's twenty seventeen. The old school in 81 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:48.480 law and For some of us, when we hear commands 82 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:56.879 like that, we think of grabbing old school, backward modern age, 83 00:05:56.879 --> 00:06:02.480 and it's move on taman as a Bible Christian about 84 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:08.800 backward thinkers the man traditional adopt some modern times and 85 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:13.319 they try to abolish what God says. And remember when 86 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:18.079 Jesus came here, he says the preaching that he says 87 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:23.399 were so revolutionary, it was so anti Pharisees, anti scribes 88 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:29.639 that the people were thinking, Lord, abolish momino in another world. 89 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:33.519 Today we want, we want the law to be abolished 90 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:36.720 as to health for our own desires. But remember that word, 91 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:41.879 that word abolish in this real Greek word. It came 92 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:45.120 from this image. Because but if you want to travel, 93 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:48.319 we have our cars, so we have uber. But during 94 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:53.600 their time, I'm ferrario, okay, we have camels to share. 95 00:06:54.120 --> 00:07:07.040 You ma have baggage camel guy, And so sometimes what 96 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:09.680 they have to do they have to take the camels 97 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:16.519 to an end. He unbuckle your mama baggages maa gamila, 98 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:24.439 or they will abolish. That's the same word, yeah, unbuckle para. 99 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:28.680 What did Jesus say in regards to the law. He 100 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:33.959 did not. He did not come to abolish the law. 101 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:37.680 He did not come to dismantle it. He did not 102 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:40.079 come to unbuckle it. He did not come to make 103 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:43.720 it light for us. So when Jesus came here, he 104 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:47.079 was saying, no, no, no, you thought I was trying to 105 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:52.199 abolish the laws. I'm actually upholding it. Qua kalamay to 106 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:57.240 your standard. Jesus was saying, mataska standard jan. He was 107 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:04.920 upholding the law. And that's hard. Again, guess if I 108 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:09.240 hear it, tamasundin, I hear and if you and I 109 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:14.839 are honest enough before God, we could say hit rabsunaden. 110 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.920 But what I fail to say is this Not only 111 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:21.399 is the law about a bunch of commands that we 112 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:24.279 need to obey. What I fail to say is that, 113 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:30.160 first and foremost, it is a story, a story of 114 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:35.679 God's relationship with us. The context of the law is 115 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:41.919 always relationship. It starts off a relationship. Therefore it gets 116 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:45.480 defined by a certain set of laws. I guess the 117 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:49.399 nearest example for this, As you know, I'm married to 118 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:53.799 my beautiful wife. She was here I think anina, and 119 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:57.039 since I'm married to her, we have a covenant relationship 120 00:08:57.080 --> 00:09:01.120 with each other. There are certain rules or loss that 121 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:04.200 we have for each other like one of them. Of course, 122 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:07.679 since I'm married to her, I am not allowed to 123 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:14.320 build unhealthy relationships with the opposite sex. And it's not 124 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:22.919 burden some for mina and grabbing a man modern day. No, 125 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:29.799 there's a law because we have a relationship. It's exclusive. 126 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.600 Probably another better example, as you know, I have a 127 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:38.720 one year old and four months son. His name is 128 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:50.120 Jededdaia Sean or I call him Jedi and or what. 129 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.840 But suddenly when he right now, he starts walking and 130 00:09:54.879 --> 00:10:04.960 he likes to put his fingers inside things, so you know, amen. 131 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:09.960 But one day, one day I saw him put his 132 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:18.159 finger in the electric socket. Oh no, first time, card 133 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:22.639 play somewhere else anywhere, Just don't put their finger there, 134 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:31.519 No first time, and I adam, I do any go anywhere. 135 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:35.720 Just don't eat the fruit. That's the first law. And 136 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.639 when we saw that, my wife and I we talked 137 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:43.039 about discipline and putting up certain kind of laws and aspars. 138 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:45.639 I think you can relate to this. I'm so thankful 139 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:48.960 for Victory Group in the church community. It's someone gets 140 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:54.080 to teach us how to raise up our kids. Wife, 141 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:57.360 go okay, if we're going to discipline him, and you know, 142 00:10:57.720 --> 00:11:00.399 put certain kinds of laws. It should be within a 143 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:04.399 basic set of premises. So the first we came up 144 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.720 as of now, okay, three reasons why we have to 145 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:10.960 discipline or correct him or put certain kinds of loss. 146 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:15.720 The first one is if it hurts him anything, of 147 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:18.720 course we need to put laws to avoid that from happening, 148 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:23.759 or we need to Disciplinehan. The other one, of course 149 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:27.320 is he if he it hurts his relationship with God. 150 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:30.600 Therefore that's what we call sin. So if it's sin, 151 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.240 we need to discipline. And then the third one, if 152 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:38.559 it affects his relationship with other people. Therefore we need 153 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:41.200 to discipline him. So we put all those certain set 154 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:44.440 of laws and Ganyan because we love him. Do you 155 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:48.519 think it's loving for me if one day we decide, 156 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:51.200 if we one day we just decide, So she jedi 157 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:55.840 with his finger an electric fun. Oh it's a blender 158 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:59.639 about me, Ecot, What would you think of me when 159 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:05.480 all of staging been Go, you know what, say, twenty 160 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:19.679 seventeen is stiff full on your freedom? Go? Wow? Do 161 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:22.919 you think it's loving for me as a parent to 162 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:27.679 do that? The hanswer is no. We put standards for 163 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:31.879 the things that we value. When we buy a phone, 164 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:39.480 when we put a high standard, not in standard lad relationships. 165 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:44.039 Why is that standards are high for the things that 166 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:50.039 we value. The law is high because my love for 167 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:55.080 my son is also high. God's standard is high. His 168 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:58.960 loss are high because his love for you and me 169 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:09.720 are high. Man a certain set of laws. We sometimes 170 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:21.720 think that sariliko a mahalin, but in reality, like parenting 171 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:27.320 and relationships, mahalk I love her, I love him my son, 172 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:30.799 I have a relationship with him. Therefore, I'm putting sets 173 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:34.960 a certain set of laws and boundaries that I expect 174 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:38.960 him to obey. Casimi relationship kme. Do we see the 175 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:42.320 difference there? The other one we're trying to attain it. 176 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:47.240 The other one is we're already there and we're just 177 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:51.240 acting out our identity. That's what the law says. And 178 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:54.720 not only is the law a story about God's relationship 179 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:57.879 with us or commands to obey, it also has promises 180 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:01.679 that he wants to fulf our lives. If you read 181 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:04.159 our Bibles, you would see that God is our redeemer, 182 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:08.879 our provider, our healer. He is our light. He calls 183 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:11.960 us the apple of his eyes. He will forgive us, 184 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:14.960 he will uphold us, and he has other promises that 185 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:19.039 he wants to fulfill in our lives. The law also 186 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:22.240 talks about God's will that he wants us to experience. 187 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:25.159 That's why there's this prayer that you will be done 188 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:27.799 on earth as it is in heaven, and one day 189 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:31.519 when God comes again, he will fulfill his perfect will 190 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:36.080 in our lives. That's the law. Now, when Jesus said, 191 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:38.840 he did not come to abolish it, but he came 192 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:41.759 here to fulfill it. What does it mean. Let's continue 193 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:45.639 verse eighteen. It says here for truly, I say to you, 194 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:49.440 until heaven and earth pass away, not an ayota, not 195 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:52.600 a dot will pass from the law until all is accomplished. 196 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.960 And nyota is the smallest alphabet of the Hebrew language, 197 00:14:57.080 --> 00:15:03.480 and dot is like compound quit sabin, insignificant small details 198 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:11.200 of the word. It will all be fulfilled. The latest fads, 199 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:19.480 it will pass away, ungaunt and latest gadgets. It will 200 00:15:19.480 --> 00:15:22.720 all pass away. Our relationships, it will all pass away, 201 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:28.919 our possessions, treasures, whatever we have resources, it will all 202 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:35.240 pass away. The latest ideologies. Uma saying it will all 203 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:38.679 pass away, and some has already passed away, and God 204 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:41.799 is saying everything else will pass away, but the Word 205 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:46.000 of God will not pass away. It will remain timeless. 206 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:52.000 It will endure forever. And you know the trending asa 207 00:15:52.039 --> 00:16:04.720 Facebook one month after, it will still be here. Why 208 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:10.840 because the Word of God is timeless, It is always, always, 209 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:16.600 always relevant, It is always new, it is always applicable. 210 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:22.039 It is a bin. The Bible always has something to say, 211 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:26.559 even in our modern issues. You know, hearing this going 212 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:29.639 campus unis we always hear this quite as a Facebook. 213 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:33.039 We will always hear man as a Bible. Napaa backward 214 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:46.320 thinking telega Papa old school seventeen Napa traditional napat that word, Oh, 215 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:50.480 I respect them. We are the new generation. We can define. 216 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:53.679 We know what needs to work in our generation. Napaka 217 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:57.480 backward thinking the Bible. But remember the Word of God 218 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:02.200 is a now word always. You know, backward thinking, sin 219 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:08.880 is backward thinking. Sinning is backward thinking because it makes 220 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:13.640 us forget what God's purpose is for our lives. You 221 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:17.240 know what, if you study history, you would look like 222 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:21.759 you would look that before the word came bagupan ataranom law, 223 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:28.480 the the climate or the condition of the world. Well 224 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:35.599 up on human rights. Women wepp human rights, babaye wal 225 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:41.079 a master slave, healthy relationship, well, an healthy view of 226 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:44.920 what marriage and relationships are about money. It's a dog 227 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:48.599 eat dog world. But when the law came, it was 228 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:53.880 so revolutionary, it was so progressive, it was so forward thinking. 229 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:57.759 What mahababi and my value see created in the image 230 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:06.079 of God? What slaves, master parijome rights? What human rights? 231 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:09.519 Possibly by oen and the word the love of God 232 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:15.640 set standards. Its shaped the society. It said, girls, you 233 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:20.000 have a value, you have a high value. Therefore go ahead, 234 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:22.960 put the highest standard that you want. But what does 235 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:26.640 the world do now every time there's born, what does 236 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:30.799 it do? It reduces women to objects. Now, let me 237 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:36.160 ask you who is backward thinking? Because before the law 238 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:39.880 came and things about by objects sabin a word in 239 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:42.519 the image of God yen. And now the world wants 240 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:49.559 us to go back in there sinning is backward thinking. 241 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:53.359 Jesus wants us to go forward to eternity. Sin wants 242 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:57.839 us to go back to death. That is the word 243 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:03.240 of God, and God says it will be accomplished. This 244 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:08.039 is what the word of God says. Next word savidito. Therefore, 245 00:19:08.039 --> 00:19:10.720 whoever relaxes one of the least of the commandments and 246 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:13.680 teaches others to do the same, will be called least 247 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:16.680 in the Kingdom of heaven. But whoever does them and 248 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:19.720 teaches them will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. 249 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:22.960 For some of us here we are Christians already, but 250 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:26.279 we don't treat the word of God with reverence and respect. 251 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:29.440 How do we do this when we when we still 252 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:32.519 compromise and the things that God wants us to change? 253 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:36.640 And now what God is saying, no, we have to 254 00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:40.119 if we want to be great, we need to uphold 255 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:44.279 what he says, obey and teach others. You know, Savidito. 256 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:48.599 If we want to be great, it's in the Bible. 257 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:56.440 Gender was never fluid, it was clearly defined. Marriage is 258 00:19:56.440 --> 00:19:59.160 not a gray area. It's a black and white thing. 259 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:02.599 And God is telling us, if you want to be great, 260 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:06.440 we need to uphold it. It's not backward thinking. It 261 00:20:06.680 --> 00:20:12.359 is the truth. And that's what it says here, challenging us. 262 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:15.200 You want to be great, Uphold the word of God, 263 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:21.680 obey it, teach it, demolish the arguments in the world 264 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:24.240 because it will not last. But the word of God 265 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:26.880 will last. Now let me go to the last verse 266 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:29.519 in this chap, in this message that we just read, 267 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:34.359 and this is the bomb o you ma first verses 268 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:41.319 Wow amount of times Jesus okay savi is a verse twenty. 269 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:44.839 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of 270 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:48.480 the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom 271 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:56.079 of heaven. What does it mean? During their time are 272 00:20:56.119 --> 00:20:59.880 the Pharisees and scribes they obeyed the law, all right, 273 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:02.759 they obey even the man made law, even to the dot. 274 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:09.279 But it was all external lahapang la bass, but never internal. 275 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:12.240 What it practically means to us right now is this 276 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:26.839 is that it's not just external but also internal. Come 277 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:30.279 on here, you know that's hard. It's so easy that 278 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:32.200 I don't know if you've tried this. I'm guilty of this. 279 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:46.119 Now set on table, look at it's so easy to 280 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:54.119 obey externally, right, but not internally. But not internally, Jesus. 281 00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:57.200 Criticism to the Pharisees and Sadducees are there. They are 282 00:21:57.240 --> 00:22:02.400 like whitewashed tombs malini cela bash mad misello. And that's 283 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:04.680 the challenge for us as well. We may come here 284 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:07.759 in church all look white and bright externally. But the 285 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:12.039 challenge is how, how what are inside? Do we really 286 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:14.480 love God? We may do one to one, We may 287 00:22:14.519 --> 00:22:16.799 go here and worship service. We may raise our hands 288 00:22:16.799 --> 00:22:19.599 and declare God is good, but maybe deep down in 289 00:22:19.640 --> 00:22:22.920 our hearts we hate him because he doesn't answer our prayers. 290 00:22:24.279 --> 00:22:26.400 We may come here and just, you know, just say, 291 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:35.519 oh damn, you know, if we really are true with ourselves, 292 00:22:35.559 --> 00:22:38.480 we're not okay? Because we are, we just did sin 293 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:44.279 and to make matters worse. The standard of God is 294 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:46.759 not just to uphold the law. Look at this next 295 00:22:46.839 --> 00:22:50.519 verse somewhere in the day of chapter five as well, 296 00:22:50.799 --> 00:22:54.119 verse fourty eight sabidito, you therefore must be perfect as 297 00:22:54.160 --> 00:23:00.519 your heavenly Father is perfect. The standard is perfection. Homo 298 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:05.759 here you know you're not perfect. The question is perfect, 299 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:10.279 None of us are. The challenge is sometimes when we 300 00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:22.200 compare our sin and we say you're gonna do but 301 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:25.920 they know they're gonna balita or quitarian live streams of Facebook, 302 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:39.480 and oh, you're perfect perfection. Though. The issue is not 303 00:23:39.599 --> 00:23:42.240 do we have sin or not? The issue is not 304 00:23:42.279 --> 00:23:44.519 do we do good? The issue is do we have sin? 305 00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:48.680 That's the thing that's the problem you and I. We 306 00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:53.160 have seen you and I are not perfect, and God's 307 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:59.039 demand is perfection. He has such a high standard. The 308 00:23:59.200 --> 00:24:02.480 law is there to make you and me see that. 309 00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:05.319 God has a high standard. The law is there to 310 00:24:05.359 --> 00:24:07.279 make you and me see that. The reason why there's 311 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:10.240 a high standard is because He has such high love 312 00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:12.759 for us. And at the same time, the law is 313 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:15.000 there to make you and me c that we cannot. 314 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:22.279 We cannot in our own strength reach that standard. The 315 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:24.519 law is there to make you and I see we 316 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:33.039 have all failed. Let's make it. Where's okay to make matters? 317 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:37.519 Verse Galatians three, verse ten. It says here for all 318 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:40.960 who rely on works of the law are under a curse. 319 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:44.279 For it is written, curse be anyone who does not 320 00:24:44.480 --> 00:24:47.240 abide by all things written in the book of the 321 00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:54.960 Law and do them. You and me were not perfect. 322 00:24:55.160 --> 00:24:57.960 You and me, we have not obeyed the law to 323 00:24:58.039 --> 00:25:02.759 the dot. Therefore an condition that then we are cursed 324 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:15.079 kasumpaumpauma in a mat indeed, cursed for everyone who does that. 325 00:25:17.359 --> 00:25:21.000 If we fail to obey, it's were cursed. If we 326 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:24.319 fail to do it, we're cursed. If we don't do it, 327 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:28.400 we're still cursed. We are cursed. We cannot save ourselves. 328 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:35.079 That is our status, that is who we are. But 329 00:25:35.119 --> 00:25:38.519 here's an interesting thing. Remember what the law is. It's 330 00:25:38.519 --> 00:25:41.960 a story of God's relationship with his people, commands to obey, 331 00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:47.000 promises to fulfill God's wil to be experienced. God knew 332 00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:54.240 beforehand that you and I cannot and will break his commandments. 333 00:25:55.519 --> 00:26:01.480 That's why he said the beginning, I know you're going 334 00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:05.160 to break my commandments, but I will still always love you. 335 00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:09.079 I will always be there for you. Do not for 336 00:26:09.160 --> 00:26:12.640 a second think that I push you away. God never 337 00:26:12.680 --> 00:26:16.400 pushes you away. He always pulls, pulls, pulls us close 338 00:26:16.440 --> 00:26:19.880 to his heart. God doesn't make us just see how 339 00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:23.759 big our sin is and laugh with us. I think 340 00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:27.799 I am commutinuous, and God says, no, I have loved 341 00:26:27.799 --> 00:26:31.640 you with an everlasting kind of love. I will forgive you. 342 00:26:31.839 --> 00:26:35.759 I will make sure that my righteous requirements are met, 343 00:26:35.880 --> 00:26:38.200 and at the same time I will love you. The 344 00:26:38.279 --> 00:26:40.839 dilemma is God cannot love us if we have sin. 345 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:44.400 He has to kill us because in the wages of 346 00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:48.359 sin is death. So how does God do it? And 347 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:53.359 his sovereign wisdom he came here down on earth, Jesus Christ, 348 00:26:54.200 --> 00:27:06.680 Jesus fulfilled every commands to the sinless, absolute perfection. Jesus, 349 00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:09.720 according to the Bible, are the promises of God, Yes 350 00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:15.480 and amen, the fulfillment of the law, every righteous requirement. 351 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:18.000 But this is what he did when he came here. 352 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:21.319 He took all our sin to himself, upon himself, and 353 00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:25.319 he died on the cross for that. This is what 354 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:28.359 Galatian says the same chapter that we were reading a 355 00:27:28.359 --> 00:27:33.039 while ago, Galatians three, verse thirteen. Christ redeemed us from 356 00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:37.079 the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. 357 00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:41.039 For it is written, cursed is everyone who is hanged 358 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:44.480 on a tree. You may curse now on that, but 359 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:49.400 nasa tree. You and I are the cursed once we're 360 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:51.960 supposed to be on the tree. But who went on 361 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:55.920 the tree. It was Jesus. What was his status? Cursed? 362 00:27:57.039 --> 00:28:01.680 Jesus was cursed. The savior became the sinner, and the 363 00:28:01.799 --> 00:28:07.160 sinners became perfect the righteous for the unrighteous to bring 364 00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:11.079 us to God. That is what Christ did for us. 365 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:15.359 He took all our sins and imputed righteousness to us. 366 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:23.319 It's a big word, imputed. That's a theological word. To 367 00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:29.480 him and his perfection, his being righteous was imputed to us. 368 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:34.599 What is our response rebelkay God and say here to the 369 00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:40.640 standard bond then or religious? Or do we receive it 370 00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:45.519 as a gift? Galatians three, same chapter, verse eleven. Now 371 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:49.960 it is evident that no one is justified before God 372 00:28:50.359 --> 00:28:53.759 by the law, for the righteous shall live by faith. 373 00:28:54.960 --> 00:29:00.640 I love that word justified, where they're justified the righteous 374 00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:04.400 shall live by faith. Well, these couple of words, justification 375 00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:08.599 by faith alone, beautiful set of words. If you are 376 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:10.799 a Christian, this is one of the most beautiful set 377 00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:14.480 of words that you can see in the world. Justify 378 00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:19.519 means in the Bible terms, it means God's perfection upon 379 00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:22.079 us and sin as if what I've done In short, 380 00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:27.400 oh I canna, Oh I canna. That's what it means. 381 00:29:29.480 --> 00:29:33.519 You and I, if you're honest enough, you and I 382 00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:39.759 know we're not okay. You and I know we have insecurities, 383 00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:46.000 we have problems, we have challenges, we have sin. You 384 00:29:46.119 --> 00:29:57.359 and I know we have issues, emotional, spiritual, relational. You 385 00:29:57.440 --> 00:30:03.920 and I know that is our statue. If you're honest enough, 386 00:30:04.279 --> 00:30:09.960 you and I would say we're not okay. We're really 387 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:14.200 honest enough. Our status. We're not okay, we're not justified, 388 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:17.240 and we're trying to make ourselves okay by how or 389 00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:20.200 if I just have more friends. I have boyfriend, I 390 00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:23.880 have girlfriend, I have money, I have success, I have 391 00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:27.799 a family, I have position, and I'm going to be okay. 392 00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:31.200 But if you're honest enough, it's not going to be 393 00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:35.000 It's not going to still be okay. How would you 394 00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:38.680 and I be okay only when we are justified by 395 00:30:38.839 --> 00:30:42.119 Christ through his blood, by faith, and that's what he 396 00:30:42.200 --> 00:30:46.240 did on the cross. Justification by faith alone, says Kayaka, 397 00:30:46.319 --> 00:30:49.519 looking okay because you see Lord indeed looking okay. That's 398 00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:54.240 and now if you trust him, your status is justified. 399 00:30:55.240 --> 00:31:02.599 The effect of does that is this boyfriend had justification? Mona, 400 00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:11.079 my Lord, you're still okay. Justification Mouni Jesus, not what's 401 00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:22.880