"For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven."
Was Matthew too hung up on works when he wrote about Jesus' sermon on the mount?
2007-12-13 17:05:34 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is interesting that so many would say he wasn't all that interested in works...the entire sermon talked about works...verse 16..."Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven"...guess it was coded...
2007-12-13 17:20:36 · update #1
It's interesting how people take verses like that. They think that Jesus is talking about being better than the Pharisees in the works of the Law.
But that's not what it is at all.
God is my salvation. His righteousness is perfect, and it is imputed on to us for faith.
Faith = Trust
We trust God through His Son and we are declared as being righteous. That's how our righteousness exceeds that of the Pharisees. The Pharisees preached Moses. When Jesus Christ was preaching Himself.
Jesus is our righteousness.
John 5
39 You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me,
40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
EDIT: The good works could not be done unless we trust God first. All the works that we may see as 'good' are nothing unless it was the Holy Spirit who told us what to do. He speaks to us through our spirit because we trust Him. No other 'work' that we do will have eternal implication. That's explained in 1 Corinthians 5: 10 - 17.
2007-12-13 17:28:57 · answer #1 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God gave His Disciples the super natural power to do the same miracles He did, and to go about preaching the word and full of wisdom.
The scribes and the pharisees were a mockery toward Jesus. They knew He knew what they were doing and what they were saying. They grand-standing in front of people, so they may be thought of as holy, they were not. You know the ones we see on T.V. today, not all by certain but, there are a few who only enters in when the Choir and Music is playing in his white suits.
I think Matthew did exactly as God directed him too.
2007-12-13 17:22:37 · answer #2 · answered by NJ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when Jesus talks about the righteousness of the Pharisees it is not to praise them. I'm not sure where it is but their is a part in the Bible where a Pharisees was praying to God and a simpleton was praying there also. the Pharisee was saying to God see how Good i am i do all this good thing im not like that simpleton over there that sinner im good and i deserve your grace. he was just to proud. the simpleton prayed to the lord and said God im a sinner i no i don't deserve any thing from you but please have mercy on me. well Jesus said that the simpleton was a good man and the Pharisees wasn't. it is not the wording like it is in the Bible.
2007-12-13 17:17:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes he did. First off , you have to understand that the God appointed livitcal priests were replaced by scribes. It was these scribes that were promoted to priest by the roman government that were the ones shouting to Pilate to "crucify Him". And the Pharisees were intentionally teaching false doctrine and laws.
2007-12-13 17:23:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It just says our righteousness has to exceed that of the pharisees because the pharisees were unrighteous.
2007-12-13 17:11:10 · answer #5 · answered by aseptic technique 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Word tells us that we are the righteousness of GOD in Christ JESUS. In another place it tells us that HE (JESUS) was made to be sin so that we may become the righteousness of GOD.
Simply put we are not to follow after, nor put our faith in anyone other than JESUS, who is our perfect example.
2007-12-13 18:04:20 · answer #6 · answered by chapel247 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That was to point out the fact that we could never make it on our own, so we would know we needed a savior. The same is true for a lot of other things in Matthew 5.
2007-12-13 17:08:29 · answer #7 · answered by Thrice Blessed 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
between the main important purposes for the previous testomony became to furnish data of historic previous and prophecy for the arriving of the Messiah. So issues that exceeded off to the Hebrew became for shadowing and/or prophecy for the Messiah. In different words countless passages are meant for extra advantageous than one timeframe.
2016-11-03 05:29:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Naw. Jesus was making the point that you can't get there by works.
2007-12-13 17:14:14 · answer #9 · answered by Disciple of Truth 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
he was not talking about works so much as he was talking about the condition of the heart.
2007-12-13 17:13:56 · answer #10 · answered by preacher 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋