The Law and The Prophets
Here’s my text for Sunday:
Matthew 5:17-19 (NCV) “Don’t think that I have come to destroy the law of Moses or the teaching of the prophets. I have not come to destroy them but to bring about what they said. I tell you the truth, nothing will disappear from the law until heaven and earth are gone. Not even the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will be lost until everything has happened. Whoever refuses to obey any command and teaches other people not to obey that command will be the least important in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever obeys the commands and teaches other people to obey them will be great in the kingdom of heaven.
Any questions you want me to address in the message?
Any comments or insight I should include in the message?
6 Responses to “The Law and The Prophets”
Does that mean we have to brush up on the Tora? I don’t think I have one.
I think you should cover all 613 laws in the Mishna and do it in 20 minutes or less.
not commenting for inclusion really…just curious.
“Whoever refuses to obey any command and teaches other people not to obey that command will be the least important in the kingdom of heaven.”
“the least important,” but not absent from the kingdom… never caught that before. is this the kingdom we exist in until our bodies quit? in the verse it seems to talk of the end of time…is it our place held until ‘judgment day’ even after our bodies quit?
is the “importance” how people will perceive their importance, or how God will see them as?
not sure if i make sense at all…. would like to know where you go with this text.
also, the notions of hierarchy co-existing with equality is interesting to me.
marie beat me to my questions. Namely, was Jesus speaking of the kingdom that is, or that kingdom that will be? Or both? And what of this “less or more” important stuff? Can that be compared to those cities that will be worse off than Tyre and Sidon “in those days?”
To whom was Jesus speaking? Are his words for us?
Does this speak to the relative importance that we place on the Testaments?
Great passage. Nice look to the site too.
Just send me a tape………
Besides just saying that it means what it says
I would suggest that you work through verse 20 about the righteousness of the scribes and the pharisees. It sheds some light on the sermon.
Hang in there…
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