00:00:01
all praise glory and honors most
00:00:02
certainly du to the most high Elohim of
00:00:04
the Patriarchs Abraham Isaac and Jacob
00:00:05
and I want to say peace to each and
00:00:06
every one of you in the name of his son
00:00:08
yahoshua hamashiach who we know is Jesus
00:00:11
Christ it's always a blessing each and
00:00:12
every single time that I can come before
00:00:13
you to bring a message contained in his
00:00:15
word and never do I counted as a light
00:00:16
thing to do so in today's message I want
00:00:20
to deal with none other than yahushua
00:00:23
our savior the one we know is Jesus the
00:00:26
Christ you know um the opportunity that
00:00:29
we have
00:00:30
through Christ through the grace that
00:00:32
was bestowed upon us by the heavenly
00:00:34
father as it is written for God to of
00:00:36
the world that he gave his only begotten
00:00:37
son that whosoever believeth in him
00:00:39
should not perish but have everlasting
00:00:42
life this is the essence of the Gospel
00:00:44
it is saying that in spite of our sins
00:00:47
in spite of our shortcomings we still
00:00:49
have an opportunity to be saved and we
00:00:51
can obtain this
00:00:53
salvation by believing in Christ
00:00:55
declaring this professing our faith and
00:00:57
being baptized in his name and then
00:01:00
walking in newness of
00:01:02
life as beautiful as this opportunity is
00:01:07
what you find in modern day Christianity
00:01:09
is the adulteration of the Gospel we
00:01:12
have received as Paul talked about
00:01:15
another Jesus and the Jesus that has
00:01:18
been given to many people who profess to
00:01:20
be Christians today is a Jesus that says
00:01:24
you can sin now as now me saying that
00:01:28
right now sounds ludicrous but when you
00:01:31
think about what people are saying when
00:01:33
they say he nullified the law that he
00:01:36
nailed the law to the Cross now we can
00:01:39
get into what that actually means
00:01:41
specifically in a different time but I
00:01:44
want to deal today with Christ's
00:01:47
teachings on
00:01:49
righteousness and the question I want to
00:01:51
answer today is did Christ do away with
00:01:54
the law did he teach that we had to be
00:01:58
obedient to the law I mean
00:02:00
if you profess to be a Christian you
00:02:02
would think that you want to follow him
00:02:04
so whatever he says this is what you
00:02:06
want to do if you want to call yourself
00:02:08
a Christian now first and foremost what
00:02:10
do we know about Christ we know about
00:02:13
Christ that one thing we know about
00:02:15
Christ is that he was without sin
00:02:19
right he's a perfect lamb without
00:02:22
blemish and with our
00:02:25
spot so that's that's one thing we know
00:02:27
about him so now if if he is our example
00:02:32
shouldn't we try to do the same thing I
00:02:35
want to read this here in First Peter
00:02:37
the 2 chapter and verse 21 it says for
00:02:41
even here unto were ye called because
00:02:44
Christ also suffer for us leaving us an
00:02:47
example that ye should follow his steps
00:02:51
in verse 22 it says something key it
00:02:54
says who did no sin neither was guile
00:02:57
found in his mouth okay he did no sin so
00:03:01
again he is our example we go into the
00:03:04
Old Testament in Isaiah the 53rd
00:03:07
chapter Isaiah the 53rd chapter which we
00:03:11
know you read in the Acts of the
00:03:12
Apostles chapter 8 I believe it it tells
00:03:16
us that uh this is referring to Christ
00:03:19
you see this with the discourse between
00:03:21
the Evangelist Phillip and the Ethiopian
00:03:23
unic who was reading the book of Isaiah
00:03:26
and Philip then expounded unto him that
00:03:28
that referred to Christ chist but what
00:03:31
does it say
00:03:32
here it says it
00:03:36
says in Isaiah the 53rd chapter in verse
00:03:40
4 surely he had borne our griefs and
00:03:42
carried our sorrows yet we did esteem
00:03:44
him strick and SM of God and Afflicted
00:03:46
but he was wounded for our
00:03:47
transgressions he was bruised for our
00:03:48
iniquities the chastisement of our peace
00:03:51
was upon him and with his stripes we are
00:03:53
healed all we like sheep have gone
00:03:55
astray we have turned everyone to his
00:03:57
own way and the Lord hath laid on him
00:03:59
the iniquity of us all he was oppressed
00:04:02
and he was afflicted yet he opened not
00:04:03
his mouth he brought as a lamb to the
00:04:05
slaughter and as a sheep before her
00:04:06
shears his Dum so he openeth not his
00:04:09
mouth and just like the Passover Lamb
00:04:12
had to be without blemish and without
00:04:13
spot which symbolically show that Christ
00:04:16
would be without sin and he is as John
00:04:19
the Baptist said the Lamb of God slain
00:04:21
from the foundation of the world he was
00:04:24
a perfect lamb as pilate said I find no
00:04:27
fault in him that was true true even
00:04:30
more so than pilate
00:04:33
realized he says he goes on to
00:04:36
say he was taken from prison and from
00:04:38
judgment and who shall declare his
00:04:40
generation for he was cut off out of the
00:04:42
land of the living for the transgression
00:04:43
of my people was he stricken then it
00:04:46
says and he made his grave with the
00:04:48
wicked he T he died between two malactor
00:04:51
and with the rich in his death he was
00:04:53
put in a rich man's tomb Joseph made
00:04:57
that happen it said because he have done
00:04:58
no violence neither was any deceit in
00:05:01
his mouth so this speaks to him being
00:05:05
perfect or without sin he said even
00:05:08
though that yet said yet it pleased the
00:05:10
Lord to bruise him he have put him to
00:05:11
grief when thou shalt make his soul an
00:05:13
offering for sin and when you had those
00:05:15
offerings those offerings had to be
00:05:16
perfect why so because that shows you
00:05:18
that the true offering the true
00:05:20
propitiation for sin had to be perfect
00:05:24
he said he shall see his C shall prolong
00:05:26
his days and the pleasure of the Lord
00:05:27
shall prosper in his hand
00:05:30
but now all that being said some might
00:05:34
say we know this we know he's the one
00:05:35
that came but nevertheless we still
00:05:39
don't have to keep the
00:05:41
law listen I can show you the writings
00:05:43
of Paul in which many people take this
00:05:46
from take this uh this doctrine that you
00:05:48
don't have to keep the law that's where
00:05:50
they get it from and I can show you Paul
00:05:52
is not teaching that at all maybe I'll
00:05:54
do that at another time but I want to
00:05:56
deal specifically with what Christ
00:05:58
taught when he was here Walking In the
00:06:00
Flesh Emmanuel this it says and the Word
00:06:02
was made flesh and dwelt among us and we
00:06:04
beh heeld his glory the glory of the
00:06:05
only begotten of the father full of
00:06:06
grace and truth what did he teach let's
00:06:10
go to Matthew the 5th chapter Matthew
00:06:13
the 5th
00:06:16
chapter Matthew 5 and we'll pick it up
00:06:19
at verse
00:06:21
17 and he tells us think not that I come
00:06:24
to destroy the law or the prophets I'm
00:06:26
not come to destroy but to fulfill now
00:06:30
this is often times
00:06:32
mischaracterized this is often times
00:06:35
misinterpreted but when you actually
00:06:37
read the text in in the fifth chapter of
00:06:41
Matthew you find out that he is not
00:06:45
doing away with the law rather he is
00:06:47
showing you what the law is supposed to
00:06:49
produce and it's supposed to produce a
00:06:52
way of thinking let's keep reading he
00:06:56
says for verily I say unto you till
00:06:57
Heaven and Earth pass one J One till
00:06:59
shall no wise pass from the law till all
00:07:01
be fulfilled so Christ didn't do away
00:07:03
with the law as a matter of fact he says
00:07:05
till Heaven and Earth pass and we still
00:07:06
have Heaven and Earth One jot or one
00:07:09
till that's the smallest letter like in
00:07:11
Hebrew that would be the Y the yod is
00:07:13
the smallest letter in Hebrew one J one
00:07:16
till shall no wise pass from the law
00:07:17
till all be fulfilled then he goes on to
00:07:20
say something that is key he goes on to
00:07:22
say something that I think many of these
00:07:24
false teachers who profess that you no
00:07:26
longer have to keep the law should take
00:07:28
heed to verse 19 reads whosoever
00:07:32
therefore shall break one of these least
00:07:34
Commandments and shall teach Man soul he
00:07:37
shall be called the least in the Kingdom
00:07:39
of Heaven but whosoever shall do and
00:07:42
teach them the same Shall be Called
00:07:44
great in the Kingdom of Heaven so if you
00:07:48
are teaching people that you don't have
00:07:51
to keep the law you are teaching people
00:07:54
that there is no absolute morality not
00:07:57
only that you are teaching people that
00:07:59
you can sin 1 John 3 and4 says who so
00:08:04
sinth transgresseth the law for sin is
00:08:07
the transgression of the law that is the
00:08:10
biblical
00:08:11
definition for sin and when you say you
00:08:14
can sin you are you are telling you
00:08:17
telling people or you saying you don't
00:08:18
have to keep the law you're telling
00:08:19
people that they can
00:08:21
sin and we also know through Paul's
00:08:24
writings the wage of sin is death but
00:08:27
the gift of God is eternal life through
00:08:28
Jesus Christ Our Lord
00:08:29
it is true that he has made a way in
00:08:32
spite of our sins that doesn't mean we
00:08:36
can now walk in sin and arbitrarily
00:08:40
sin as it tells us in the in the book of
00:08:44
Hebrews the 10th chapter for in verse 26
00:08:49
for if we if we for if we sin willfully
00:08:52
after that we have receive the knowledge
00:08:54
of the truth there remain no more
00:08:55
sacrifice for sin but in certain fearful
00:08:59
look for of judgment and fiery
00:09:01
indignation which shall Devour the
00:09:03
adversaries you are not to continue to
00:09:05
sin after you come into the knowledge of
00:09:07
Christ you're supposed to walk in
00:09:09
newness of life this was shown to you
00:09:11
when they came out of Egyptian bondage
00:09:14
they were freed physically but it's it's
00:09:17
it's symbolic also showing you to be you
00:09:19
can be free from sin after you come up
00:09:21
under the blood of a lamb just like you
00:09:23
have to come up under the blood of
00:09:24
Christ and you have to be baptized as
00:09:26
they were baptized at the Red Sea and
00:09:28
then they didn't just they were just
00:09:30
were not baptized on that on on that day
00:09:33
they walked on the 15th day of the first
00:09:34
month they walked out of bondage eating
00:09:37
unleavened bread so that was symbolic of
00:09:39
walking in newness of life according to
00:09:41
the uncut unated word of God which is
00:09:44
what the unleavened bread pointed to see
00:09:47
that's the method of Salvation this is
00:09:49
how I want us to obtain
00:09:52
it but back in Matthew the 5th chapter
00:09:54
The Gospel according to Matthew 5 and
00:09:57
verse 20 he says for I say unto you that
00:09:59
EX your righteousness shall exceed the
00:10:01
righteousness of the scribes and
00:10:02
Pharisees ye shall in no case enter into
00:10:05
the kingdom of heaven then he goes on as
00:10:08
a master teacher he goes on to expound
00:10:12
upon this notion and really show us what
00:10:15
the law is supposed to
00:10:17
be producing in us it's supposed to be
00:10:21
producing a way of thinking it is not
00:10:23
that we should look at the law and try
00:10:25
to see how we can get around keeping it
00:10:28
it is not that we should look at the law
00:10:31
and see how we can use it for our own
00:10:34
benefit it is not that we should look at
00:10:36
the law and come up with our own vain
00:10:40
Traditions rather we should look at the
00:10:42
law and see the spirit in the law see
00:10:45
the law is spiritual the law or Torah is
00:10:48
really showing us the thoughts of an
00:10:52
omnicient being in the instruction that
00:10:54
he gave us he's showing us what he
00:10:57
thinks about various matters of human
00:11:01
endeavor in Matthew 5: 211 it reads ye
00:11:04
have heard that it was said by them of
00:11:06
old time Thou shalt not kill now that is
00:11:09
one of the Ten
00:11:11
Commandments right which Thou shalt not
00:11:13
kill which is interpreted as Thou shalt
00:11:15
not
00:11:16
murder so the question is after we we
00:11:19
read this right now we should question
00:11:21
what is he going to say next is he going
00:11:23
to say that you are no longer under the
00:11:25
law or is he going to tighten the Reigns
00:11:30
and show us how we should think about
00:11:31
the law and show us that we should have
00:11:34
a different type of thinking we want to
00:11:37
think like him let's pick it up in in
00:11:40
the middle verse 21 cuz he said ye have
00:11:43
heard that it was said by them of old
00:11:44
time thou shall not kill and whosoever
00:11:47
shall say shall kill shall be in danger
00:11:49
of the Judgment right murder is a
00:11:52
capital punishment what does he say
00:11:54
verse 22 but I say unto you that
00:11:58
whosoever is angry with his brother
00:12:00
without a cause shall be in danger of
00:12:02
the judgment and whosoever shall say to
00:12:05
his brother Raa shall be in danger of
00:12:08
the councel but whosoever shall say thou
00:12:11
fool shall be in danger of Hell
00:12:14
Fire now question going back to the
00:12:17
question I asked earlier is he saying
00:12:19
you don't have to keep the law or is he
00:12:22
tightening the Reigns consider this
00:12:26
prior to his passion prior to giving of
00:12:28
his life
00:12:30
he he shared the Passover with his
00:12:33
disciples and he told them he said this
00:12:37
is my blood shed for you the the wine
00:12:40
represented that the blood shed of the
00:12:42
New Covenant well what is the New
00:12:44
Covenant because many people who profess
00:12:47
that we no longer have to keep the law
00:12:50
say that we are under the New
00:12:53
Covenant but what exactly is the New
00:12:57
Covenant does the New Covenant say we
00:12:58
don't have to
00:12:59
keep the law because that's he shed his
00:13:02
blood without without you know without
00:13:05
Bloodshed there's no Covenant he shed
00:13:06
his blood for the Covenant is he is that
00:13:09
saying we don't have to keep the law
00:13:11
anymore let's read the New Covenant this
00:13:13
is Hebrews the 8th
00:13:18
chapter and we'll pick it up at verse 10
00:13:22
he said for this is the Covenant that I
00:13:23
will make with the house of Israel after
00:13:25
those days sayeth the Lord Now
00:13:27
understand he made the Covenant with the
00:13:29
same the old Covenant and the New
00:13:31
Covenant are made with the same people
00:13:33
the church the Ecclesia the children of
00:13:36
Israel and there's a
00:13:38
commonwealth in Israel meaning the
00:13:40
church is made up of a number of
00:13:43
different people from different nations
00:13:46
the now
00:13:48
obviously uh the children of Israel
00:13:51
physically are black people that have
00:13:52
been scattered into slavery all over the
00:13:53
world I can show you that biblically and
00:13:55
historically I can also show you
00:13:57
biblically that they left Egypt they
00:13:59
multitude because there were other
00:14:01
nations in Egypt including Egypt that
00:14:04
that coupled with the children of isra
00:14:07
and that's why when you read Torah it
00:14:09
says you often times will find it saying
00:14:11
one law for the homeborn and one law for
00:14:12
the stranger because there was a
00:14:14
commonwealth and so now there's a
00:14:17
commonwealth even today where other
00:14:19
people can take hold of the god or the
00:14:22
Elohim of Abraham Isaac and
00:14:25
Jacob but it says for this is the
00:14:27
Covenant that I will make with the House
00:14:29
of Israel after those days sayeth the
00:14:31
Lord I will put my laws into their mind
00:14:34
and write them in their hearts and I
00:14:37
will be to them a God and they shall be
00:14:39
to me a people so what does that suggest
00:14:41
to us it suggests to us that the law
00:14:45
would be in your
00:14:47
heart not just written on Stone or papus
00:14:50
or or or animal skin but it would
00:14:54
actually be written in the mind see and
00:14:57
that's being spiritually minded
00:15:00
okay it's not just that you shouldn't
00:15:02
kill your brother we know that but when
00:15:06
you're really looking at the essence of
00:15:07
the law the essence of what of what the
00:15:09
most high is putting forth operating out
00:15:11
of love you wouldn't be angry with your
00:15:14
brother for no reason and if you're not
00:15:16
angry with your brother for absolutely
00:15:18
no reason certainly you wouldn't murder
00:15:20
your brother you see how this goes so if
00:15:22
you would actually change your mind
00:15:24
which is what he taught
00:15:26
consistently you would understand that
00:15:29
not only can you not sin you're going to
00:15:30
change your way of thinking let's see
00:15:33
this further let's skip down to verse 27
00:15:35
I'm in Matthew 5 and verse
00:15:38
27 it reads ye have heard that it was
00:15:41
said by them of old time Thou shalt not
00:15:43
commit adultery but I say unto you that
00:15:47
whosoever lookth on a woman to lust
00:15:48
after her ha committed adultery with her
00:15:51
already in his heart what is he
00:15:54
saying we know again one of the Ten
00:15:58
Commandments is thou should not commit
00:16:00
adultery side note what actually is
00:16:03
adultery biblically speaking adultery is
00:16:07
when a man sleeps with a woman that is
00:16:11
married to another man or is betrothed
00:16:14
to another man okay betroth means it's
00:16:18
similar to how in the Western World you
00:16:19
have an engagement betroth means that
00:16:22
there's already been a a contract or or
00:16:26
an agreement rather to for these two
00:16:29
individuals to be married often times
00:16:31
this was negotiated by
00:16:33
fathers in hebraic
00:16:35
culture but there has not been yet a
00:16:38
consummation of the marriage meaning
00:16:39
they have not come together in sexual
00:16:41
intercourse but that's still the man's
00:16:43
wife if a man were to sleep with a woman
00:16:46
who's betro in that state or a woman who
00:16:49
has consummated marriage and has been
00:16:51
married to a man for example for 15
00:16:53
years that and a man sleeps with her
00:16:55
another man besides her husband sleeps
00:16:56
with her that is adultery that's
00:16:59
adultery for a man again sleeping with a
00:17:00
woman that has a husband and they have
00:17:03
Conant demand marriage marriage or a
00:17:05
woman or a man that sleeps with a woman
00:17:08
that uh has a husband and they have not
00:17:10
consummated the marriage like example or
00:17:12
that's actually go being
00:17:13
betroll that is adultery for a man
00:17:16
adultery for a woman is sleeping with
00:17:19
any man that is not her
00:17:23
husband okay if she's so and she
00:17:27
obviously she has a husband any man so
00:17:31
just explain this further if a man lays
00:17:33
with a woman and she is not married or
00:17:36
not betroll that actually is not
00:17:38
adultery I point that out because that
00:17:41
is not the definition of adultery in the
00:17:42
Western World I'm showing you what
00:17:44
adultery means in the Bible so here he
00:17:49
says now back to this he says ye have
00:17:53
heard that it has been said by them of
00:17:54
old time Thou shalt not commit adultery
00:17:56
or the mangling of seeds
00:17:59
he says but I say unto you that
00:18:00
whosoever lookth on a woman to lust
00:18:02
after herath committed adultery with her
00:18:03
already in his heart another side note
00:18:06
cuz some you have to clear up things
00:18:08
even before you get to the essence of
00:18:09
West being I talked about because
00:18:10
there's so much falsehood we often times
00:18:12
people look at the text with Western
00:18:14
paternalistic
00:18:17
europeanized mind eyes or mindset or
00:18:19
lens and this book is not European this
00:18:23
book is not Western okay um so
00:18:28
it says but I say unto you that
00:18:30
whosoever lookth on a woman to lust
00:18:31
after her have committed adultery with
00:18:33
her already in his heart this actually
00:18:35
technically would only apply to a woman
00:18:38
that is married or that is betro it
00:18:40
doesn't mean any woman okay so now but
00:18:44
my point here now we can get to the
00:18:46
point after we understand what it's
00:18:47
saying uh on the surface we can get to
00:18:50
the essence of the of the of the
00:18:51
teaching here and what is that if you
00:18:53
can control your thinking pertaining to
00:18:56
another man's wife which you would
00:18:58
dispel any
00:18:59
thoughts that you would reject any
00:19:01
thoughts of lust after a woman that
00:19:04
belongs to somebody
00:19:06
else that that would you're so far from
00:19:10
committing adultery you're not even
00:19:11
thinking about committing
00:19:14
adultery as job who the Lord described
00:19:19
he the Lord says hast thou considered my
00:19:20
servant job a perfect and an upright man
00:19:22
when that fear God and a sh with evil he
00:19:24
said I have made a covenant with my eyes
00:19:26
and I should not even look upon a man to
00:19:27
lust out her so now he and then he goes
00:19:29
on to talk about not uh committing
00:19:33
adultery you know um let his wife grind
00:19:37
to another like this is this is um a way
00:19:40
of
00:19:40
thinking it's it's not a new way of
00:19:43
thinking because when you look at job
00:19:45
job actually is a shadow of Jesus or
00:19:48
yahoshua when you look at the life of
00:19:50
Job he was called perfect why because he
00:19:53
had a different way of thinking I give
00:19:55
you an example of this he made a
00:19:57
continual or perpetual sacrifice on
00:20:00
behalf of his children just in case they
00:20:03
Curse God in their minds not that they
00:20:04
professed any curses with their lips but
00:20:06
if they thought incorrectly about the
00:20:09
Lord that he made a Perpetual sacrifice
00:20:10
to that that shows you a different way
00:20:13
of thinking this shows you what when the
00:20:15
law is in your heart cuz perfect
00:20:18
Perfection is according to a
00:20:20
standard and this is what the teaching
00:20:22
of the master teacher here is telling us
00:20:26
it's telling us we must change our way
00:20:28
of thinking because it is out of the
00:20:30
mind that all uncleanness derives he
00:20:33
tells you that in Matthew the 15th
00:20:36
chapter where he says but those things
00:20:40
which proceed out of the mouth come
00:20:41
forth from the heart and they defile the
00:20:43
man for out of the heart proceed evil
00:20:44
thoughts murders adulteries fornications
00:20:47
steps false witness blasphemies these
00:20:49
are the things which defile a man but to
00:20:51
eat with unwashed hands defile not a man
00:20:54
let's go to John the 8th
00:20:56
chapter so we have so he's not matter of
00:20:59
fact let's go back to Matthew the 5th
00:21:02
chapter and see something he said here I
00:21:04
want to read this cuz I would I would
00:21:06
suggest that you read Matthew 5 in its
00:21:09
entirety and when you see the essence of
00:21:10
what he's teaching he's not teaching you
00:21:12
to do away do away with the law he's
00:21:15
teaching a a higher way of thinking so
00:21:19
not only would you not commit adultery
00:21:20
you wouldn't even think about laying
00:21:21
with another man's wife Not only would
00:21:23
you not murder a man you wouldn't even
00:21:25
be angry with him without a cause that's
00:21:26
not doing away with the life law that is
00:21:29
tightening the rains because he because
00:21:31
the law is supposed to be in your heart
00:21:32
which is the mind but he tells you in
00:21:34
Matthew 5:48 be therefore perfect even
00:21:37
as your father which is in heaven is
00:21:39
perfect question if you have Perfection
00:21:42
there must be a standard of
00:21:45
perfection I'm going say this again if
00:21:48
if you have Perfection there must be a
00:21:51
standard of perfection what in other
00:21:55
words how can you be perfect well you
00:21:57
have to be a perfect according to
00:21:59
something
