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  LAW BREAKERS
  by Don McClure
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Summary: Jesus came to fulfill the law, not to destroy it, and he is the
fulfillment of all the law and the prophets.

Duration: 52:18 Topics: "Biblical Obedience", "Kingdom Living"
Scripture References: Matthew 5:17-20, Matthew 6:33, Matthew 7:12, Matthew 7:21

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In this sermon, the preacher discusses the presence of laws and
standards in our lives. He emphasizes that these laws are not meant to
be destroyed but fulfilled. He quotes from Matthew chapter 5, where
Jesus states that not even the smallest part of the law will pass away
until all is fulfilled. The preacher highlights the importance of
obeying and teaching these commandments, as those who break them will be
considered least in the kingdom of heaven, while those who do and teach
them will be called great. He also mentions the expectation of these
standards in various aspects of life, such as work and marriage.

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But tonight turn with me now if you would to Matthew chapter 5 as we
continue on In the Sermon on the Mount beginning tonight in verse 17 of
Matthew chapter 5 Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the
prophets. I am not come to destroy but to fulfill For verily I say unto
you till heaven and earth passed one jot or one tittle shall in no wise
pass from the law till all be fulfilled Whosoever there shall therefore
shall break one of the least of these commandments and shall teach men
So he should be called the least in the kingdom of heaven But whosoever
shall do And teach them the same should be called great in the kingdom
of heaven for I say unto you that except your righteousness Shall exceed
the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees ye shall in no case
enter into the kingdom of heaven Let's pray and we'll look at this
together Father first, we want to just come before you and just thank
you that you love to speak to us Lord as we have just been singing Lord
open my heart. I want to see you As we've asked you Lord We we want to
have you open your word to give us words of wisdom that we may hear them
and Lord I thank you that you love us so much.

Your word is so powerful. There are things right here before us tonight
so powerful So liberating Lord that we could be free From the law and we
ask Lord that you would give us great Understanding of your word Jesus
as you said some of these most wonderful things as we read tonight We
ask that you would make them real to us that we'd understand in our
lives would be strengthened by your love strengthened by your wisdom
Lord, we also do just want to pray for Chuck and Kay is there tonight or
to dr Van Cleve's memorial service and I know how much He meant to Chuck
and decay in their lives and and Lord we ask that you would just bless
that service Minister Lord to many people through it. We know you will
and also Lord is there closing out the conference? That Murrieta tonight
Lord that you would just wonderfully bless Brian and John as they would
share Lord that you would just anoint this time Lord so many wonderful
missionaries Lord that have come out of this body They're all over the
world Lord people that are supported by the people right here that give
That are encouraged by their prayers Lord We just pray for them now that
you'd refresh them bless them and Lord this tremendous work going on
throughout the world That you would just continue it bless them father.

Give them a wonderful evening and day tomorrow Before they head back to
the these countries Lord, but bless them and minister to them in Jesus
name. Amen Well here tonight we look at Jesus and the law an extremely
important topic as we'll see as we get into this Particularly when you
look at what Jesus has been saying so far for after he has given us to
be attitudes and I trust You are not being frustrated or impatient with
me that I kind of repeat these things each time but if there's one thing
that I would love to have people learn and be able to Memorize are the
processes in them and the message is essentially that we have here in
each one of these Beatitudes each one a nugget of truth Building upon
the other when there Jesus said blessed are the poor in spirit Blessed
are they who mourn blessed are the meek? Blessed are they who hunger and
thirst after righteousness they should be filled Blessed are the
merciful blessed are the pure at heart blessed are the peacemakers and
here is a yes Jesus has just been sharing a transformed life and I trust
that you have been with us through these and realize the power when you
put one of these Blessings one of these great keys to happiness. That's
what the word blessed means.

Remember. Oh, how happy Insatiably wonderfully happy is the person who
knows these things the person that has been through the processes
They've been there. They're poor in spirit.

They're their own in internal life Of themselves their own strength
their own hope it's been devastated They're utterly spiritually poverty
stricken and they mourn over it and in that morning before God it turns
into a wonderful meekness regard I don't deserve anything. I have the
rights to nothing In fact, if you were to give me what I do deserve, I'd
be annihilated. I'd be dust.

I'd be powder. I'd be history But rather than that Lord, the wonderful
thing is is that Jesus said blessed are they who hunger and thirst God?
I'm so hungry for you If you would find in your heart to love me to
forgive me to help me and even to fill me with yourself here Jesus the
Transformed life is what he is talking about here a person now becoming
merciful becoming a peacemaker becoming somebody that blessed are they
who are persecuted for righteousness sake and There when somebody that
is they they're the life now they head out and they're so filled with
Christ So the world didn't love Jesus and it doesn't you know, love
those of his servants Jesus said And now we'll be reviled and we'll be
persecuted Say all men are evil against us falsely and Jesus said
rejoice and be exceedingly glad for it for so re you know Rejoice me
exceeding that what's the rest of it? I can't you memorized it. But
anyway, uh, I Get your job.

I'm in the wrong book here. The winds blowing the mine away. But anyway,
but the but But here then he goes on.

He says you're the salt of the earth And now he looks at you says you
are the salt of the earth Salt has lost its savor henceforth goods for
nothing cast out and trodden in the foot of men You're the light of the
world. And here is he looking at somebody now? He has just taken a life
It's been a transformed life a redeemed life a restored life a
regenerated life a resurrected life a Christian life and the Finest
sense of the word he says I'm just simply telling you what a Christian
is from the inside out from the top To the bottom. What is he what he is
before God what he is before himself what he is before others and now as
Jesus looking this season, you're the salt of the earth and you're the
light of the world and Then it is somebody listening to this.

You'd almost think where did this message come from? Never heard a thing
like this. This is this a new religion Where in the world is he coming
from and here Jesus now at this point? He's not really deviating from
the subject but he is answering a lot of people that have to be sitting
around listening saying what are you talking about and Here he turns
because now they would you know, it's a there. I mean here.

I thought you were a Hebrew I thought you were from Judaism. I thought
you were out of our Hebrew roots. This is not what we have been hearing
This is not what we understand to be the faith of our fathers.

This sounds very new This sounds very very different in those so Jesus
stops He said by the way, he says don't think or think not that I have
come to destroy the law of the prophets I'm come to destroy but to
fulfill and he says verily verily He says tell heaven and earth shall
pass away. There'll not be one jot or one tittle of this law He says
that'll all be fulfilled and he's looking there and he says what I am
talking about here is Is the law and the prophets as he wants to make
this very very clear Anybody that might be listening to this may be may
be wondering. This is a new religion This is a new thing the scribes and
the Pharisees that have been following Jesus and you know, he's been
talking about love He's been talking about grace He's been talking about
the goodness of God and Jesus had been attacked and attacked and
attacked again and again Because the Pharisees came to him says this is
not Judaism that all the people that were coming to Christ and following
him and the common people in the sinners and the winebibbers and all
these Masses numbers of people coming out listening to him preaching
were loving him and he was telling them You know that this was God and
the Jews were over there or the scribes and the Pharisees were beginning
to attack him and saying Wait a minute.

This is not the law This is not God's Word. This is what this is out of
nowhere This is so different from everything that we're rooted in and
folks you better realize this guy is a cult leader He's you look out for
him and they had been accusing Jesus for a long time And now Jesus
turned to me says by the way, he says what I'm talking about right here
Right now he says this is not something there that I have not come to
destroy the law of the prophets And he says I've not only not come to
destroy I have come to fulfill it as a matter of fact There won't be one
jot or one tittle now that is the equivalent to us almost like the
littlest teeny little you know, period or comma a Jot or tittle in
Hebrew writing was something there that when the the scribes would be
writing it down This was just that this the slightest little mark there
the slightest little, you know touch You know the pen there that would
just give he says not only I'm gonna get all the law and all the
prophets He says there won't be the slightest Aspect of all of the law
and all of the prophets that will not be fulfilled and is not fulfilled
in what I'm telling you about This is an absolute fulfillment of the law
and of the prophets And the word there when Jesus said not only I have
not come there to destroy but to fulfill the word there fulfilled in The
Greek it means abundantly supply Jesus said what this is is this is the
perfect abundant total supply of all of the law and the prophets all of
it and Here, you know when you look at this here Jesus and I am here to
abundantly supply everything that the law was ever about ever trying to
say and When you and I by the way when we're talking about the law when
they're talking about the law you got to realize this is quite a quite
an extensive piece of information To the Jews the law. I mean it had a
very broad sense of it First of all, there was just the Ten Commandments
You know as as we know them and they're within the Ten Commandments
There is given, you know out there and of course in the book of Exodus
that of course is a portion of the law It's the basis so much of the law
But then there's also the Levitical law in there which shows all the
ceremonial law The of the law of how man came before God and approached
God There the tabernacle was laid out in the structure and the
principles and the standards for the priesthood and the Sacrifices and
all the processes of what sacrifice would be required under the law
depending on the sin or the problem or whether what it was that you were
doing or dedication or Consecration or a burnt offering and all of these
were part of the law.

They were the Levitical law They were the ways of approaching God when
you had failed somewhere in the Ten Commandments When there had been one
portion of the law there of the legal law or the Ten Commandment law
that had not been fulfilled Well, there was then the ceremonial law the
Levitical law that now how you you fulfilled this these laws in a sense
Too because you had failed in one of these this one atoned or forgave or
put you right with The law that you had failed in so these were laws
Then there's also the civil law and There's quite a bit of that in the
first five books of Moses as we called them the Pentateuch the books of
history But in there are part of the books of the law, but in the books
of the law, they're the first five books There's also the the civil law
and there there's quite a bit written on many many chapters on just
civil law of just simply They're and buying selling trading doing
business What happened if somebody had done something wrong to a person
an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth or whatever the Standard on the
judges the judicial law and you see when the children of Israel, you
know when they looked at their law It was all a spiritual world in a
sense because God set up their laws the children of Israel are a nation
under God Set aside and he set all their laws moral law civil law, you
know spiritual law, but it all encompassed to them the law The things of
God and here Jesus is telling them he says when I have come here He says
I am here to fulfill the law and that's the broadest sense in the
concept of the word I am the fulfillment of all of it every bit of it
every jot every tittle of it every comma every period of It and as he
looks at this and he and he says and not only there is in the sense of
the law But also as he says they're of the prophets There's something
here as Jesus, you know looks at this and not only I've not come to
destroy all that error to fulfill To destroy the law and the prophets.

I am here to fulfill it all And here of course, you've got the law there
that was set up the standards of life the spiritual life the ethical
moral Ceremonial civil life and laws there and then throughout so much
of the Old Testament You've got the prophets usually broken down in the
major prophets or the minor and the minor prophets but essentially the
prophets were all of these people that came in at different times
through Israel's history and exhorted the people in Some aspect of the
law that they were not fulfilling Constantly telling them you've got to
get back to God You've got to get back to the ceremonial all the
spiritual law the Levitical law the moral law the ethical the ethical or
the civil law or some aspect to where they were living lawlessly and the
prophets came and said get back to your roots get back to where you
belong you're failing and Trying to bring them back into a right
relationship with God and here the the Pharisees were telling Jesus You
do not hear you you're with the law and the prophets the whole route and
the Foundation of Judaism and of what we are all about and what began
with Abraham was carried on through history They're looking at him. So I
don't know what you're talking about.

But this is for and us And Jesus came lines and not only this is what I
am is not for and he says I will fulfill all of it Everything in the law
that isn't right and all of the messages and desires and fulfillment of
the prophets. I am the fulfillment of it all And of course which he was
Essentially, we haven't of course got time to do it tonight But the book
of Hebrews is about that's that is one of the things that the book of
Hebrews was was all written for was all about in the early church The
these people that were coming to Christ in these massive numbers the
Judaizers They were now running out and saying wait a minute. What are
you doing? You're leaving Judaism next, you know, they weren't at the
temple They weren't offering sacrifices.

They were worshiping on the first day of the week celebrating the
resurrection of Christ They were doing all of these things and their
freedom that they were finding in Christ and the Judaizers were going
out and they were Telling all these Hebrew converts to Christianity.
What are you doing? What are you leaving the law and the prophets for?
What are you leaving Judaism for and their great argument was is did not
God? Jehovah who you purport to now know better than ever did he not
actually give us the law Didn't he give us Moses?

Yeah, he did didn't he did not God give Moses the law there on the you
know, Mount Sinai Yeah, he did and didn't he give us Moses there Joshua
there that brought us into the land after jump Moses took them out Yeah,
God did do that Well, didn't God also give us the ceremonial law didn't
he give us all these sacrifices? Yeah, he did Well, then how can you
leave this? All right, if you want to believe in Jesus We're we'll
discuss that later, but get back to the temple at least Get back into
fellowship with Judaism You can't leave this and that was one of the
great aspects and the reasons fundamentally that the book of Hebrews was
written That's why the book of Hebrews and it's a wonderful book But
essentially there it is it begins God who at sundry times in diverse
manners spaken unto us by his prophets It says now hath in these last
days spoken unto us by his Son There who being in the brightness of his
glory and the express image of his purpose of his person In Hebrews
chapter 1 it says upholding all things by the word of his power He says
when he had by himself purged by our sins and he sat down at the right
hand of the majesty on high and then He says and being so much better
than angels The writer of Hebrews he says, you know God at sundry times
in diverse manners.

He was speaking into us always speaking into us different times
different ways through the law and through the prophets and through all
of these different things now half in these last days spoken Us by his
son there is and he says whom he hath appointed heir of all things by
whom also he made the worlds who being in the brightness of his glory
the express image of his person when he purged himself our sin sat down
at the right hand the majesty on high and he says and he is better than
angels and then Systematically the writer of Hebrews spends the entire
book Saying that Jesus Christ is better Than anybody and anything that
we ever had in Judaism Simply because he is the fulfillment of all of
them He starts off better than angels in chapter 1 there simply because
to the Jews angels Were highly thought of hundreds of times are
mentioned in the Bible They dispensed the law and they watched over men
and they had a huge spiritual ministry They're still do of course, but
they're the Jews thought very highly of angels but then he goes on and
he says but you would do you that Jesus is thought far more of by the
Father than an angel for God looks there at him He says thou art my son
this day have I begotten thee to which angel did he ever say that Jesus
is better than angels And then he goes on and he says and he is better
than Moses He says he that builded the house, you know You know Maybe
there is is the one that was actually behind The one who said I am that
I am to Moses Moses came out and did things but the one who spoke to
Moses was Christ He is the I am He was the one there in the burning
bush.

He was the one there that did all of the work He brought the plagues
Moses did he did some pretty fancy stuff. No question But actually he
did nothing but what he was told and when he did what he was told Jesus
was the one doing it and Then he goes on and he says Joshua. He was a
wonderful guy, but he didn't bring him in there a real rest Christ will
do that He goes and then he talks about Aaron and the high priesthood of
Aaron.

He says Aaron was a wonderful guy he did a lot of great stuff and he
took the children of Israel through the veil and in there at the You
know at the Passover and presented them to God But when Christ came and
died on the cross the veil was rent and was opened up and now all of us
Jesus Christ our high Priest he's better than Moses. He's better than
Joshua He's better than Aaron and all the sacrifices that there ever
were if the blood of bulls and goats could ever make anybody clean
Wonderful, but it didn't It wasn't until finally Christ blood his
offering was sufficient for everything and everyone He is better than
all of these things because he is the fulfillment of them. And when you
have the real one In your presence, you don't need the shadow You don't
need the allegory you don't need this story that was there to prepare
the way for when he would come for Christ is the fulfillment of all of
these things and There is the sacrifice.

He's the high priest He's the one that leads us out of bondage like
Moses and the one that leads us into rest like Joshua He's the
fulfillment of all of these things and here Jesus when he turns and he
tells us there He says I haven't come to destroy the law the prophets.
I'm the one that gave them to you. I Anointed the law.

I gave the law. I know I did the prophets. I sent him to say what they
had to say But I am the fulfillment of it and the wonderful thing here
when somebody begins to realize There that that the law, you know that
you may see you know Then when it had a great place make no mistake
about it But as Paul says in Galatians 3 verse 20 Paul says wherefore
the law is Our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ that we may be
justified by faith For after that faith has come we no longer are under
a schoolmaster here Paul said the law was something that was very
wonderful, but it wasn't but but it didn't do the job It was merely a
schoolmaster to bring us to a place where I realized I need somebody.

I Need you know somebody to help me to love me to strengthen me to
forgive me to atone for me to lead me I need somebody in my life that
just as the children of Israel needed a sacrifice I do just as they
needed to deliver out of bondage I needed to deliver just as they needed
somebody to bring them into rest into the promised land I need somebody
that'll bring me into rest just as they needed a high priest I need a
high priest and all of these things. They're the law. They were a
schoolmaster There were things there that somebody who sat under these
things They came to the realization.

I Need all of these things in my life To be working in my life So the
law on one hand it sets a standard that shows us the that we have sinned
it shows us we have failed When you look there at the law and you look
at the Ten Commandments All you have to do is read him, you know And and
and here when the Lord says you'll have no other gods before me. You'll
have no graven image There when he looks at them, he says, you know
there he says thou shalt not kill You know thou shalt not covet Thou
shalt not bear false witness with one thing after another when he said
don't do this when you realize. Oh As the Bible tells us if a man hates
his brother, he's murdered And this is how should I commit adultery the
Bible says there and makes it clear there that adultery isn't merely a
physical act if you Think it's your heart.

Jesus said if a man lusts after a woman He committed adultery The next
thing, you know, the law is something there is the as Paul writes about
the law And condemned him the law brought him the more he understood the
law and Jesus there as he says I'm not here to destroy the law The law
is a great friend in the sense that it shows us we need Christ It is a
schoolmaster as Paul said to bring us to Christ Now the interesting
thing is is that men we live in a world today all of us, you know We
live in a world of laws, too We have all these laws around us whether
you know We we know it or not We set standards all the time anytime a
standard is a behavior is set whether I said it or somebody else sets it
And anytime it's just a standard anytime it's set and then I fail it I'm
guilty all the time It's interesting Paul in 1st Corinthians 15 56 Paul
said this that the sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the
law Here Paul says this this think of this the sting of death is sin
What did it what brings the death the sting of it is sin? But what gives
the sin its strength there is a law In other words what tells me I have
sinned what makes me guilty what pronounces me guilty But just like the
children of Israel They had all of these different laws whether it was
the Ten Commandments the ceremonial law the civil law The you know all
the the you know The human laws that they set up all of which were done
spiritually and if you fail in any one of these The sting of death is
sin and the strength of sin is the law And he says what it actually
there what what is really happening is that what it is that gives sin
its great ability to condemn Me is the law There was no law. That's why
a lot of people hate the law They want to say there's nothing wrong with
us There's nothing wrong with all these stupid laws that people set up
They're just there to make people feel bad if we could just get rid of
the law Everything would be great. We'd all be happy and Yet at the same
time wherever we are.

We always are setting up laws for ourselves standards All these time we
set up a few I wonder how many of us even in our own lives tonight
You've got all sorts of laws whether you know it or not that you set up
for yourself standards promises Commitments to do better to try harder.
How many times is a Christian? I wonder many of us that maybe some of
us, you know, we felt bad and Lord I failed you and I've let you down
and I've really done terrible God, please forgive me I'm just such a
terrible sinner, but God if you will forgive me and Lord If you will
just find in your heart, let me come back home and just to love you and
to worship you and walk me I promise I'll never fail you again You know,
we come as if you know, what do you think? You know sort of a thing we
set these Standards we make these promises. I'll never let you down
again Lord.

You'll be so happy And you know with me or I'll never you know, Lord, I
I'll never you know, I really blew it with my wife I got angry. I you
know, I kicked the door and Lord if you'll forgive me I'll never ever
ever kick the door again, you know, or whatever it is, but we make these
standards That we can't keep We're like this story, you know, I'm sure
you've heard of the little kid. They're a little Catholic boy there.

You know, he found himself You know one day he realized he wanted a
bicycle for Christmas And he wanted this bicycle so bad and he sits down
and he says dear Jesus he writes him a letter Jesus if I can have a new
bicycle, I Promise you I'll never sin again Well, he looks at that for a
moment. You really well, I don't think you're gonna go for that, you
know I'm blogging Lord. I promise if you give me new bicycle I'll make
my bed and I'll clean up my room and I'll never talk back to my mother
again Maybe you know he thinks about that and he realizes no the Lord's
not gonna believe that He looks over and he sees there on the shelf.

There's a statue of Mary He looks at that for a moment and he goes over
and he gets the statue of Mary and he goes and he gets one of his shirts
And he wraps up the statue of Mary and he puts it in his drawer And he
shuts the drawer and he sits down. He writes a letter dear Jesus if you
ever want to see your mother again But all the time we're making these
promises, you know Some way that we can get God to bless us some way
that we're gonna have him work You know for us or something and then
we'll make these new promises and but every time we set a promise You
know, we don't I'd wonder how many of us have rededicated our lives to
the Lord at different times It may be done a few times. So you really
rededicated the previous Recommitment, you know or something in the Lord
if you'll forgive me this time I know I rededicated my life and I
recommitted the previous dedicated commitment new commitment freshly But
if now I can really rededicate it this time.

I'll really be good But the interesting thing is is it here Paul? He
says they're Satan who is the accused of the brethren every time I make
a promise every time I tell God how good I'll be And how hard I'll try
and the new standard I'll keep and on and the law that I will have all I
actually do is I give sin its strength to condemn me because the
strength of sin is a law or the standard or the behavior I promise to
live I will keep this behavior if I can get right We do that with each
other You know if you'll forgive me if you'll give me another chance. I
promise you I Will and then we fill in the blanks that we think they'll
sell out for you know Whatever we can make each other to agree on these
things here will be the new standard of our relationship Here's the new
standard of the home Here's the new standard of my life or my job or of
my moral standard or my ethical stand I'll never lie to you again, if
you'll forgive me and we set all these standards that are based on what?
us Our ability to keep our law any law that is set up be it civil
Spiritual you know Whatever it is that is established We have them we
live by them and all that really does is give Satan the opportunity now
to come and condemn us later on What gives the sin its strength is the
law or the standard because now when I blow it he comes back And he says
look at you so often You know we go and we make a promise and we feel
really good when we're making promise everybody You know make this
promise, and we're happy come from rededicate your life to the Lord
tonight Tell him you're gonna really do good if he gives you another
chance and hope what you God forgive me I promise and we do these things
and we all sing together and people come forward and we think angels are
in heaven flapping their wings and joy over the thing and Jesus is
looking at this thing Wow is this great or what they're making a new
promise a New thing that they're lying about you know or whatever they
because he knows we cannot do it and Here Jesus said listen There is a
fulfillment of all law all law all standards. I Am it I am here not
simply to fulfill it that word there literally is the reward it means to
replace it the law Turn with me if you would to Romans chapter 7 I Want
us to look at this because it's so powerful, but in Romans 7 Paul writes
he says no you're not brethren for I speak of them that know the law And
he says how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth
Romans 7 2 for the woman which has a husband is buoyant is bound by the
law to her husband so long as he liveth But if the husband be dead she
is looser in the law of her husband So then while her husband liveth she
be married to another man.

She should be called an adulteress But if the husband be dead she is
free from the law so that she is no adulteress although she be married
to another man Wherefore my brethren be ye also are become dead by the
law to the body of Christ that she should be married to another Even to
him who is raised from the dead that Christ Pardon me that we should
bring forth fruit to God For when we were in the flesh the motions of
sin, which were by the law did work in our members bringing forth fruit
unto death But now we are delivered from the law that being dead wherein
we are held We should serve in newness of spirit and not the oldness of
the letter And down in verse 9 he says I was alive once without the law
But when the commandment came sin revived and I died and the commandment
There which was ordained it to life. I found to be unto death in verse
12 He says wherefore the law is holy and the commandment is holy just
and good Here on one hand what Paul he gives this wonderful illustration
in the middle of this of a marriage As he talks there and he says for
the woman which has a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long
as he lives and Then Paul gives this wonderful illustration to me a
tremendous illustration and in here and essentially to me when he does
is he ladies and perk your ears up listen to this Because Paul
introduces us to every woman here to the man of her dreams In this
chapter you you can marry him to his name is. Mr. Law Essentially and
mr. Laws miss Paul defines him here.

He is an incredible man He is an unbelievable husband as he says there
in verse 12. He is holy. He is just and good He's mr. Law and it's mr.
Law.

He loves God. He loves man. He is perfect.

He has depth He has character. He has wisdom. He has integrity.

He has goodness. He is totally moral. He is totally ethical He is
totally faithful.

He is totally honest to the nth degree. He is perfect He's the most
unbelievable husband you could ever dream of. He's perfect in all of his
ways He's a flawless gentleman.

His behavior was without error and mr. Law. He's available You can marry
him if you want to and you might say well who wouldn't And so you do and
you marry him, but then after you get married you find he has one little
irritating quality about him That kind of drives you nuts Makes you
totally miserable as a matter of fact, and that is that he expects the
same behavior of his wife That he has turned for a moment quickly if you
would over to Galatians 310 Here in Galatians 310 Paul writes. He says
for as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse For it is
written cursed is everyone that continueth not in all which are written
in the book of the law To do them in Other words here Paul on one hand
though.

He says, you know, you can marry the law and the laws holy just and good
here This mr. Law. He is the most incredible husband in the world. This
is the guy on the wedding cake.

He is beautiful He is flawless. He is without error without sin he is
unbelievable the only problem is is he expects the same thing from his
wife and he Cursed is everyone that continues not in all the things that
are written in the law to do them He has this nasty habit of Expecting
the same thing from mrs. Law Son comes up and with that mr. Law He wakes
up in the morning and he bounces out of bed and he is perfect He's
bought not a Harris out of play. This breath is perfect.

The guy is dressed flawlessly there. He slept all night There's not a so
much as a wrinkle in his suit, you know And his tie is flawless and he
is just perfect in every single way He's holy and he's just and he's
good and then as he springs out of bed I mean this guy is more woman's
dream in a sense then even before he goes I mean, he's got a perfect
home and a perfect family and perfect children, but he leaves him in
charge of his wife He says now honey. I want you to take care of these
perfect children I want them to be dressed perfectly and I want them to
behave perfectly and I want the house perfect I don't want any dirt.

I want don't have any dust. I want the house immaculately cleaned I want
the clothes washed and ironed and creased flawlessly when I get home And
then he comes home at the end of the day and he looks around the kids
are a little out of sorts a little messy Little dirty there's found some
dust on the you know, the table looks at this thing and he says curse
you my dear Curse you curse you curse you you did not fulfill the law
You you go to eat the food and it's not perfect There's wrinkles in your
outfit and you're a little haggled trying to keep these children
perfect, but you didn't quite do it He looks at you and he says not good
enough. My dear curse you to your face You know, you're a condemned
woman.

I mean as wonderful as he is He's got this nasty habit of cursing his
wife and making her feel utterly insufficient and totally guilty And
here as wonderful as this marriage started out it wasn't there was
anything wrong with mr Law was just that mrs. Law couldn't keep it up.
That's what Paul is saying here The law is holy just and good and he
says but he says I know that the law is spiritual He says but I'm carnal
sold under sin and the problem is with me But as Paul tells us here to
go back there in verse 2 He says the woman which has a husband is bound
by the law to her husband so long as he liveth by the husband be dead
She is loosed from the law of her husband Paul said, you know, one of
the most wonderful things that it all you could ever dream of happened
to this woman one day She woke up one morning and she was shocked
because she actually woke up before mr. Law never happened before In
fact, she looked over at him and there he lay absolutely perfect hair
totally not out area and everything in place suit on impeccable the guy
was Absolutely there. She looked at him.

Everything was perfect. But one other thing she noticed he was also
perfectly Dead It was the greatest day in her life He died She looked at
this thing. This is what Paul is saying there He says for if then while
the husband lives she'd be married to another man.

She'll be called an adulterer But if her husband is dead She is free
from that law so that she is no adulterous though She'd be married to
another man And he says wherefore my brethren Ye also are become dead by
the law of the body of Christ that she should be married to another even
to him who was Raised from the dead that ye should bring forth fruit
unto God Here Jesus when he says think not that I have come to destroy
the law of the prophet I'm not here to destroy it, but I am here to
replace it I'm here to fulfill it That which condemned and condemned and
condemned you because you never because of who you were and it just woke
up every day Condemn you condemn you condemn you curse you curse you
curse you now the most wonderful thing in all the world you could ever
imagine begins to happen is That now instead of waking up and being
cursed and being convicted and being condemned Now all of a sudden
instead of being married to mr. Law. She is married to mr. Grace Who now
instead there and when he wakes up in the morning? He has this loving
way of reaching over to wake up mrs. Law And saying to her come unto me
all you laboring or heavy laden I'll give you rest My burden is light my
yoke is easy for I'm meek and lowly of heart He looks over there at his
wife at the law at mrs. Law who is now mrs. Grace because mr. Laws died
and she is now free to be married to another and Married to Christ
because she is now broken off the relationship with the dead husband.
He's gone She's free of him and now she is free to be married to another
and here Jesus said I am not simply the fulfillment I am the replacement
of the law I'm the replacement of all the standards all the behavior all
of the Stuff that you are that you structurally seem to try to live by
to fulfill all the time that have never been able to do it before for
here there is something that now he turns and Instead of telling us how
to go out and how to live in and setting all this standard in the
structure He goes with us.

He says I'll never leave you forsake you I'll be with you always into
the end to the age and everything I would ever ask of you. I'll do
through you I'll do it in you by my grace By might nor by power, but by
by spirit saith the Lord here Jesus looks at us and he says drop the law
Drop it. You see we live by laws all day and they condemn us.

I Wonder how many of you by the time you just got to church tonight
You're condemned just driving Because there's laws out there And there's
laws that condemned you all the way to church You say here I'm going to
church and I'm gonna have to first just ask for forgiveness for the way
I got to church Because you violated laws You know, you ran people off
the road. They're hurt. They're wounded because of you.

They're confused They used Wonderful gestures to tell you what they
thought of you when you went by or whatever else and they were they you
know You you disturbed their life. They disturbed yours or whatever else
because loss And it's you can't keep your life as you go You know, you
thought you watch a football game and here you see there's two things
going on There's people on one hand are trying to win but all the time
there's these laws There's these rules there's these standards these
laws you got to play the game this way and if you don't play this game
not only We get we go back But you're gonna lose yardage and lose a
ground, you know ground on this whole thing because because the fact you
went over all over The line before the ball was hiked and that was all
sides or you held the guy when he tried to get by you and that's Holding
or you interfere with the guy when he tried to catch them all or you
tripped a guy because you didn't have the time To try to block him or
whatever else but you cheated and you broke the rules And we have all of
these virtually everything we do in society you go to work there's rules
a Lot of you you got these jobs and you didn't in these jobs are
terrible jobs. They got these rules.

They say come to work You know you use every day. Yes Every day. In
fact, we're gonna have this little clock there That's gonna decide if
you did it and it's gonna take a picture of you too And you're gonna put
your number in your card in there and you're gonna give them a blood
sample and everything else or whatever else I know you were there and
then we're gonna check out our how'd your work and how much productivity
you had and if you didn't do Good, we will concurse you to your face and
fire you too, you know, or whatever else But you've got all these
standards and we have standards in our marriages standards in our own
All these rules are moral laws.

They're ethical laws And we don't like them they're terrible in one
sense, but you but they're a schoolmaster Society has to have them
because when you do get rid of them, which most people want them gone
You ever see you know These like the helicopter pictures that they'll
take when there's a riot and there's a little momentary disbanding of
the law The law is gone. We got rid of the law for 20 minutes or
something. They're out of town in the meantime There's a camera out
there and you see these normal law-abiding citizens assume all of a
sudden they're bashing in store windows Climbing through coming out with
television sets coming anything they can grab clothes that are don't fit
them We don't care.

I want to steal. I just have been wanting it to do it my whole life and
the laws gone I'm just stealing a TV that doesn't work out of a repair
store or whatever. They don't know they don't care they just the thrill
of breaking the law There's a great thrill to it we love to break the
law We love to do things that just kind of there's an adrenaline thrice
And so often there's because the law though it tells you this is the
woman you married and this is the man you're married to And this is how
you're gonna behave and yet sometimes a guy, you know when you're under
scrutiny and the laws there and it's watching you But see you good So
you get out of town and you're on a business trip and there are the
temptation There's all of a sudden some women sitting over there who
looks like she might want to break the law, too And you're thinking
there are these things.

Hey, there's no law around here and you're in trouble and Here the thing
is is that either we live under this it condemns us all the time. We go
to work We're making out our taxes. We're paying our bills We're doing
all these other things that just say curse you curse you curse you
You're not what you think you are what you want people to think you are
because you would break them if you could and that Is our nature? until
We are married to another who says I can fulfill it in you all the law
The moral law the ethical law the spiritual law the law of heaven the
law of earth every law.

I Can take you that there but you have give you a heart and a love for
your husband Love your wife not a not a commandment in order that you're
saddled with each other The commitment that you made but I can give you
a love I can I can give you all you need there to care for Your children
not out of law not of eat eating or out of moral You know law of the
land that you better take care of this kid till they're 18 or you're a
poor parent but something there of God I God listen Jesus said if you
will let me be your husband and Replace the laws and the standards I can
instead of going home tonight and having a look in your rearview mirror
Instead of looking that that says why you're breaking the law look at me
When you go home tonight instead of having okay God when I go home. I'm
gonna tell my wife. I'm really sorry, honey Please forgive it.

Just be quiet. Just look at me. I'll go home with you and let me talk to
her She's I just want to use your mouth I'll say some incredible things
if you'll give up and let me say it and you may think whoa I'd do I'd
where I'm gonna get the power to do that.

I'll give you the power And I'll thrill her in you Because it won't be a
standard you can't keep because you're indwelt by a person Who threw the
Beatitudes when you were poor in spirit and you mourned over it and you
became me and you were hungry and thirsty? And you were filled you were
filled with a life and a power you had no idea what it was all about And
he says I'm not here to destroy the law of the prophets I'm here to
fulfill it Everything that we always dream could happen in a man in the
law and in the prophets that the law could never do because it was Weak
I can do by my spirit If you'll let me be your husband, but you got to
break off the relationship with the dead law You've got to love me more
than it forget the standards. You will look you will fulfill those
things by coincidence The amazing thing is one time Jesus when they're
talking about the law and the Pharisees and the and the scribes and all
these arguments And things going on Jesus there He looked and he says
thou shall love the Lord thy God with all the heart mind soul and the
strength and thou shall love thy Neighbor as thyself for in this lies
all the law in the prophets Here essentially every law that there really
is that's worth it Every law that there is in all the world comes down
to two things and what they're all about loving God and loving others
and That if you are loving God and loving others you wouldn't have there
wouldn't have to be all these You know signs everywhere telling you
whose turn it is when you got to a signal He would sit there. Well, I
love them.

I love more to me you go No, you go. No you go, you know, I'm a better
Christian than you So you go yes, but I'm trying to be one. Well, maybe
that wouldn't work out I don't know if we'd have another problem But I
mean if there was something there that we where we where we did if there
wouldn't have to be laws You will not steal if you can you walk out of
here and there you there's a wallet Sitting in a pew that was left there
and you walk out and you see the senior over the wall just $500 in the
wallet He said there they go.

My Jesus you provided. Thank you. Bless you.

You're so wonderful You know on things in the I've been praying that
this would happen you sort of a thing But if you but if you loved your
neighbor as yourself He said the Wow, this is so exciting or somebody
that I love as I love me lost $500 I was so thrilling I get to be the
one to go get this cake. It's what I found Maybe it's not maybe see if
his license is here an address or a phone number. This is so exciting.

I gained a friend all laws That are decent laws are simply loving God
and loving others Augustine once said love God with all your heart and
do what you please Hear Jesus there, I mean he's saying you love me.
I'll fulfill the law and the prophets You make me the object of your
affection You seek me first. You'll have all these other things
fulfilled.

You won't have to worry about how am I gonna go home and love? My wife,
how am I gonna care for my husband or love my children? How am I gonna
handle the things at the office? How am I gonna be a good employer or
employee you love God and you love the people you work with? You let
Christ be the law the person the being there that doesn't just simply
set a standard he fulfills the step the standard he sets and Then when
you fit then when you fail and you will When you fail, it won't be a law
you standard you failed It will be a person you let down and so you
won't run back to be cursed You'll run back to say Lord. What did I do?
I'm in trouble. I forgot you.

I took my eyes off you Forgive me Let's get right. I missed you all day
Instead of the old man when I told God I'd be at this wonderful person
and look at me No, you'll still be the same person Left without him as
we all are our righteousness is as filthy rags Our best efforts will
never do it But when his righteousness and I'm letting him fill me when
that's the standard then I've got it And I'm gonna close it there I'll
finish it next week but here The one thing they're just to close this
Jesus said accept your righteousness Succeed the righteousness of the
scribes and Pharisees. You'll no case enter the kingdom of heaven He
looks there and he says listen He said you look at those standards you
look at the people living by the law and the ceremonial law and the
Levitical law and who fast three times a week and who pray there and do
this and do that and they're trying so hard to fulfill a standard first
of all, they don't do it and Your righteousness because they would sit
there and say how could I ever be as good as this righteous as ascribed
in the Pharisees? My righteousness got to be better than theirs Jesus
said sure does because they're married to the law who still condemns
them because cursed it is everyone that Continueth not in all that is
written in the law both to do them.

In other words, you only fail once you're cursed And here Jesus said you
better do better than they do and Somebody like say I could never do
better than they do. He says precisely Because they're phonies
themselves they're hypocrites But when Jesus he says you let me Be the
one that's the focus when you're going to go to work with me tomorrow.
Go home with me tonight Let me help you with the children Let me be the
one that is the object of your affection and you will then look there
and realize all that was fulfilled And then when it isn't you realize
Lord, what did I not grasp with you? Of your love or of your power
Tonight maybe some of you came in here married to mr. Law You got all
these standards, maybe some of you even nudging in a story.

Hey, hey, you know Sorry, I don't want to get into that one But so often
we're even condemned by one another You're not good enough, but oh when
we find ourselves turning the Lord and say Lord, I know I'm not good
enough I feel it But if you fulfilled the law and the prophets Fulfill
it me. I just out there that didn't do it in my heart Be the object of
my affection and when I see failure And when I the law there may it
always be just a schoolmaster to drive me right back to you To bring me
to Christ and then as soon as my faith is there back in you the law as
Paul says no longer of Nessar it only falls into place as soon as I
break off fellowship with the right husband the dead one comes back And
he's looking at me condemn you curse you and then when I told how do I
get rid of it run back Jesus I took my eyes off you said yes, you did.
So I sent the dead guy back For you to look back to me again.

I Let him curse you only so you'd come and want my mercy in my life,
isn't that wonderful Father we just thank you for your love and your
goodness And I just pray that you would just take your word even tonight
to our in our life Jesus may you truly be the object of our affections
the love of our life May you not just be the fulfillment technically,
but Lord the total replacement of all standards in our life Lord if we'd
get up tomorrow say Lord, I'm getting up with you To sit with you to
open my heart with you to open your word To ask you just have the right
place and then Lord take me to work take me before the family Take me
before my loved ones. Take me out on the freeway Take me wherever I got
to go But Lord, I want to go with you and then Lord when something comes
and tells me I've offended God or man I haven't loved the Lord or I
haven't loved another as myself and I'm convicted by it May I just turn
to you and say Lord help me forgive me Instead of trying harder and
making promises. I just want to get back to loving you Looking to you
Lord.

Jesus. May you truly be the object of our affection In your name we pray
Jesus Amen

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