“Your holiness must exceed that of the Pharisees, or you’ll never make it into Heaven.” This is a truth Jesus drops in His Sermon on the Mount. To us we think it’s not a big deal. We’ve learned to boo the Pharisees since Sunday school. They’re the bad guys. Of course we need to do better than them. But to Jesus’ followers and listeners, that was shocking! To them the Pharisees were the epitome of ethical righteousness, following and championing some 613 commands based on the Old Testament. Exceed that? How?? Tonight we look at just that as we dig into the Righteousness of a Disciple, fruit of the inside out heart change that we’re all called to experience.
by Suffolk