Chapt 5

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-          Christ wants to change our motives for our actions, based on what He knows is right.

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-          Why do I do what I don’t want to do?

-          A movement of Love

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-          Intellectuals don’t want to answer to an absolute truth and marginalize those who do.

-          Is the world more moral now, not answering to the absolute?

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-          Radical in life message, controversial, Jesus turned peoples lives relative truth lives over.

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-          We couldn’t keep the laws already in place, why would Christ give us more to live bye

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-          The world does not associate Jesus as being brilliant.

• He is just a nice guy, who treated people well.

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-          We must depend and be devoted inspite of the human knowledge we have.

-          We allow Christ to hang around the edges, we don’t allow him to permeate our lives

• Why do we put him there?

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-          We have a right to be free, based on our righteousness through Christ

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-          Matt 5 moves us from Contemptuous Anger to Unconditional Love

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-          Everyone is open to the blessing of God, we must treat them as such.  God’s creation and children

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-          What are the symptoms, and what brings out wrong actions?

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-          We are still expected to keep the law, however we are no longer alone and our reasons for keeping the law are based on actions from the heart.

-          Faith in Christ should drive our obedience

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-          By keeping the law of God Israel would find the heart of God, and the only solution to keeping the Law

• Christ was and his righteousness revealed through the Law, being the expert he knew man had distorted the law

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-          A change of heart for all, and the ten commandments will become a natural part of life

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-          We produce fruit because of our change

-          We create our own laws

-          The analogy of Cleaning the Cup

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-          Actions become evidence of our faith in Christ and change of heart because of that faith.

-          Just being a good X , does not solve the problem of or motivation to sin.  We have an desire to understand right and wrong.

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-          What makes us internally Good?

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-          Six contrast of old and new Moral reality

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-          Anger leads to wrong doing

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-          What is Anger?

• A feeling that prompts us to act out towards something or someone who interferes with our will, possibly with malice

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-          When your are told you have done it wrong or you have been wronged

• Anger always hurts

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-          Very few murders if no anger

-          Anger underpins the wrong actions we have towards others

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-          Contempt shows you place no value on the person

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-          Contempt leads to a lack of emotion towards wrong doing, and lack feelings

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-          We long to be accepted, and fear being left alone

• God said it is not good for us to be alone
• Community

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-          Love brings value and worth to a person, and attracts them to the Kingdom of God

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-          Restoring relationship is most important

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-          Not guilt but a conscious focus on right and wrong

-          Approach every situation with Grace

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-          Mutual restitution, focused on the needs of others

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-          Even on conversation we can break the bond of marriage

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-          Lust is the intent towards action, and goes on in with all types of men and women.

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-          Lust: savoring or having pleasure in the fantasized.

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-          Taking the thought of sex to fantasy for the means of pleasure

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-          Would it not be better to learn about the purpose of sex within God’s kingdom to fulfill our desire in the right ways

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-          A wicked heart controls our thought and actions

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-          Avoiding sin does not change the intent of the heart

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-          Intent of the heart

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-          God created marriage so man would not be alone

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-          Jesus healed sick people he can heal sick marriages

-          When is divorce permissible?

• When the heart is hard toward reconciliation.

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-          Revenge is always escalated; feel we have to pay back in added ways.

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-          The 4 things are about filling needs

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-          A kingdom heart is counter to the ways of the world.

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-          In the kingdom we must learn to understand the nature of a persons request

• Most people as with little expectation of others

-          Rom 12:1 in view of God’s mercy

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Living in the kingdom Christ has dealt with our heart, and our actions stem from that change.   This change allows us to be vulnerable when confronted, but invulnerable because of the presence of Christ.

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-          All the right actions Christ talks about come from the understanding and action of love.

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-          The Pharisee tries to keep the law absent of the presence of Christ; he does not allow his deeds to become a natural out pouring of that presence.