You're Not Righteous. | Matthew Sermon 3 | Jesse Campbell
Jesus echoed the proclamation of John the Baptist in Matthew 3:2, "Repent because the kingdom of heaven has come near." This was the beginning of His public ministry.
No atheist writer has ever gotten the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) right. If they grasped it, they would be Christians; but they haven't, so they aren't. In this pivotal sermon, this apex upon which the Old Testament would pivot into the New Covenant, Jesus showed us how desperately we fall short of the Law and how desperately we need a Savior.
Jesus established the necessity of the coming crucifixion. Those of us convinced that we can virtue signal our way to perfection, that we can offset past sins with new deeds of subjective goodness...are delusional. We have reinvented the same trap of the Pharisees, just without religion. We cannot virtue-signal our way to heaven. We cannot undo our depravity. The most righteous thing we could accomplish appears filthy before the holiness of God. So, what are we to do? The literal good news, as in "the gospel" directly translated, is that Jesus fulfilled the Law for us.
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