We’ve been looking at God’s law and how it’s not about restrictions and regulations, but about freedom and love. How we can know exactly where we stand with this God. Today we are going to ask the question, what does it look like to live out the Law?
Read Matthew 5:17-18 and write down what this means to you
Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to do something and you had no idea what you were doing? In that moment how badly did you want someone to just show you how to do it? Essentially this is what Jesus is doing with his life, showing us what it looks like to live in a perfect relationship with the Father. He is our example when it comes to living our lives today.
What’s interesting is that so many people, whether they admit it or not, believe that Jesus came to do away with the Law. But that’s not what Jesus is doing here; in fact he’s amplifying it. In this verse Jesus is beginning the Sermon on the Mount, which was a sermon that Jesus gave many times throughout his life. In it, Jesus hits many parts of the Law, but shows us how his followers are called to go above the Law. For example in Matthew 5:21-26 Jesus tells us that the Law says not to murder, but Jesus says that we shouldn’t even be angry at another.
Today pray that God would help you to recognize the areas of your life where you could go beyond the Law and show you the areas of your life where you need to life up to Jesus’ example
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