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Christ.
Christ. He forbade the demons
He had cast out of those possessed to
confess that He was the
Christ (Luke 4:41). And when Peter—in reply to
Jesus’ direct question
“Who do you say that I am?”—responded that He
was the Messiah, Jesus
strictly commanded the disciples to tell no one
that He was the Christ (Matthew
16:15-16, 20).
He answered the question
of the imprisoned John the Baptist (“Are
You the Coming One, or do
we look for another?”) by directing him
to the proofs of His
messianic claims—His teachings and His works
(Matthew 11:2-6).
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Some erroneously think
Jesus’ intention was to contrast His own
teaching with that of
Moses and thereby declare Himself as the true
authority. They assume
that Jesus was either opposed to the Mosaic law
or modifying it in some
way.
Jesus’ Teaching on God’s Law
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He did likewise with
their narrow view of the Seventh Commandment, “You shall not commit adultery.”
The Pharisees of the day under
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The Pharisees were looked
up to as those who had attained the very
pinnacle of personal
righteousness, and the common people supposed
that such heights of
spirituality were far beyond their reach. But Jesus
asserted that the
righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees
wasn’t
enough
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Consider, for a moment the penalty
that
each of us brought on ourselves by
sin. It isn’t
purgatory or hell, or some other
place or state
of being or consciousness (request or
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Mount is that—because
His preaching was so different from that of the
Pharisees and
Sadducees—some people believed His intention was to
subvert the authority
of God’s Word and substitute His own in its place.
But His real intention
was to demonstrate that many of the things the
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Jesus’
Teaching on God’s Law
Jesus’ Teaching
on God’s Law
“Do not think that I
came to destroy the Law or the Prophets.
I did not come to
destroy but to fulfill” (Matthew 5:17).
Perhaps the most
widespread controversies about the teachings
of Jesus concern His
attitude toward the laws of God recorded in
the Old Testament. The
approach of most churches and denominations regarding Jesus is that He brought
a new teaching differing considerably from the instructions of the Old
Testament. The common view is that the teachings of Christ in the New Testament
annulled
and replaced the
teachings of the Old Testament. But do they?
The idea that Jesus
departed from the Old Testament is also a common assumption within Judaism.
Jacob Neusner, in his book
A Rabbi
Talks With Jesus,
explains why Jews as a
whole do not follow Jesus and
reject any possibility
that He could be the Messiah. “Jews believe in the
Torah of Moses,” he
explains, “...
and that belief
requires faithful Jews
to enter a dissent at
the teachings of Jesus, on the grounds that those
teachings at important
points contradict the Torah” (1993, pp. xii).
Here is a serious
mistake both Christianity and Judaism make about
the teachings of
Jesus. Both hold the erroneous view that Jesus departed
from the teachings of
the Old Testament, especially with regard to law.
As we will see, the
record shows that while Jesus disagreed with the
religious leaders, He
didn’t disagree with Old Testament Scriptures. The
same record shows that
traditional Christianity itself does not follow the
teachings of Christ.
To know the real Jesus
we have to ask: What did He really say? It
doesn’t ultimately
matter what people say
about
Him. Nor does it
really
matter what
interpretations they give of what He said. What truly matters
is
what He really said,
and
whether we’re going to
believe what He said.
Clear statement in the Sermon on the
Mount
The Sermon on the
Mount is a good place to begin. Since this is the
longest recorded
statement of Jesus Christ’s teachings, we should expect
to find in it His view
toward the laws of God as recorded in the Old
Testament. And indeed
we do.
One of the reasons for
some of Jesus’ statements in the Sermon on the
Jesus’ Teaching on God’s Law
Jesus Christ will return as
King of Kings to rule the
world in a Kingdom of peace,
prosperity and purpose for
all. This gospel of the Kingdom of
God was at the heart
of His teaching.
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