Is fasting better than eating and drinking? Does restraint of the flesh make us better than those that follow the desires of the flesh? It's so easy for us to define a good based on a contrast with evil. To 'not chase after the desires of the flesh' can lead to the thought that the restraint is a laying hold of a good in itself. This is the trap the Pharisee finds himself in.

Matt unpacks Jesus' words which are leading us to so much more than restraint of desire or surrender to it. He is opening up the only way to the total freedom of Being.