Jesus endorses marriage and challenges, not only the Jewish society of his day, but modern society, too. Divorce is permitted for the disciple for two reasons only.
Jesus endorses adultery as a sin but goes further to consider the underlying attitude, which is lust. Lust is selfish and can cause great difficulty and needs to be dealt with radically.
Jesus takes a commandment from the Law of Moses and transforms it by looking at the attitude beneath. Anger needs to be dealt with quickly for the Christian.
Jesus fulfils the God-given Law of the Old Testament but not the man-made laws added. He fulfils the Law by being obedient to it, fulfilling Old Testament prophecies and by bringing in the New Covenant.
The beginning of Jesus' teaching mainly given in Matthew. Luke warns that Jesus' disciples would experience opposition and hardship but their reward is in heaven.
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About The Life of Jesus: Series 4 - The Sermon on the Mount
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Having chosen twelve of his many disciples to become his ‘apostles’, Jesus gathers them together to teach them intensively about the attitudes, lifestyle, ethics and principles of his new discipleship…
community – which would later become the church. This vital teaching is recorded primarily in Matthew and Luke and is the focus of this series. The apostles will be the first leaders and founders of the church in the future. Jesus is shaping their understanding of the characteristics of the nature of discipleship.
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