Jesus continues His teachings in several areas concerning judgment, prayer and works. As He ends His teachings, He concentrates on the necessity of good works. That is, true belief in Him as Messiah will manifest itself in the life of the believer by works of righteousness. True faith is evidenced by the life of the one confessing faith in Jesus.
Jesus continued His teaching that His disciples should surpass that of the pharisees in preaching about righteous conduct. He dealt with such issues forgiving to fasting. Finally, He spent a significant time on the issue of money.
The latter teachings of chapter 5 denote Jesus’ warning that the people’s righteousness should surpass that of the pharisees. So, He begins by attacking the wrong teachings of the pharisees and telling them His own, showing how the pharisees misinterpreted and went beyond the correct teachings of the Law of Moses.
As the large crowds followed Jesus, wandering if He were the Messiah who would bring about the kingdom, Jesus led them to a mountain and began to teach them. The essence of His teachings in this video deals with who is qualified to enter the kingdom of the Messiah. Jesus answered that as those who look to Him for their spiritual needs and are willing to suffer on account of their faith in Him.
We all know that the Scripture teaches that God “shows no partiality”. This is a brief lesson as we take a closer look path that word in the original Greek text of the New Testament that state fact – Romans 2:11.
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