Jesus’ Scandalous Standards
The Scandal of Becoming Capable
God’s Uncompromising and Scandalous Standard
• Unparalleled and scandalous
- Anger is murder Mt. 5:21-22
- Feeling superior leads to hell Mt. 5:22
- Lustful looks is likened to an adulterous act. Mt. 5:27
- Marriage is for life. Mt. 5:31-32
- Love is for enemies Mt. 5:43-48; Micah ??
- Prayer is for those who persecute Mt. 5:47-48
- Worry is worldly; Kingdom seeking is to be our first priority Mt. 5:25-34
• Unattainable and scary
- The goodness of God’s Law
- The purpose of God’s Law
Our Unyeilding and Heinous Hearts
• Compromising God’s ideal for our real – Liberal Theology
• Compromising our real for God’s unattainable ideal – Legalism
• Maintaining God’s ideal and our real – Evangelicalism
God’s Incomprehensible and Wondrous Mercy
• We must ask “Why?”
• We must ask “What?”