murder—including unjust anger and contemptuous

murder—including unjust anger and contemptuous

words (Matthew 5:21-26).

He did likewise with their narrow view of the Seventh Commandment, “You shall not commit adultery.” The Pharisees of the day under

-

stood the physical act of sexual relations with a woman outside of marriage to be sin. They should also have known, as in the case of the Sixth

Commandment, that lust for another woman was sinful because the one

lusting had already broken the Commandment in his heart.

These are examples of the “righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees” that Jesus characterized as making the outside of the cup and dish

clean, while on the inside remaining “full of greed and self-indulgence”

(Matthew 23:25, NRSV).

Jesus instructed His disciples that God’s law must indeed be obeyed

outwardly, but it must also be obeyed

in the spirit and intent of the

heart.

When Jesus taught such heartfelt obedience to God’s laws, He was

faithful to what the Old Testament taught: “For the

Lo r d does not see as

man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the

Lo r d looks

at the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7).

The prophet Jeremiah looked forward to a time when God would establish a new covenant in which God promised to “put My law in their minds,

and write it on their hearts” (Jeremiah 31:33). God’s original intent for

His law was that people would observe it from their hearts (Deuteronomy

5:29). The failure of human beings to obey God’s law in the “inward

being” (Psalm 51:6, ) inevitably led to outward

disobedience.

Jesus did not change the law

Jesus prefaced His contrast of the scribes’ and Pharisees’ narrow

interpretation of the law with its true spiritual intent using the words,

“You have heard that it was said

...

But I say to you

...” (Matthew

5:21-22, 27-28).

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

But it’s hard to imagine that Jesus, just after delivering the most

solemn and emphatic proclamation of the permanence of the law and

emphasizing His own high regard for it, would now

undermine

the

authority of the law by

other

pronouncements. Jesus wasn’t inconsistent;

He honored and upheld the law in

all

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