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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro. We now come to the first illustration by which Jesus explains what He meant when He said, "Except your righteousness exceeds that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you in no case shall enter the Kingdom of heaven."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. "YOU HAVE HEARD THAT IT HAS BEEN SAID BY THOSE OF OLD TIME, THOU SHALT NOT KILL, AND WHOEVER KILLS WILL BE IN DANGER OF THE JUDGMENT."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Did not the Bible say this?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Indeed it does.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Gen',9,6);">GEN 9:6</a> Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Exd',20,13);">EXO 20:13</a> Thou shalt not kill.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Exd',21,12);">EXO 21:12</a> He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Exd',21,13);">EXO 21:13</a> And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Exd',21,14);">EXO 21:14</a> But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Num',35,12);">NUM 35:12</a> And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The error in the teaching was this. In the 10 commandments the sixth commandment declared "Thou shalt not kill."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. In the amplification of that command in <a onClick="return mV('Exd',21,12);">Exodus 21:12</a> the law said, "He that smites a man so that he die, shall be surely put to death."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Then distinctions were made between murder and manslaughter.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. If it was accidental, there were established cites of refuge where you could flee in order to stand trial before the judges.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. The Pharisees in their teaching put the two separated passages together and declared if you murdered someone you would be in danger of the judgment.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. The only thought was their facing the trial before men. There was no thought of their guilt before God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The way it was being taught was that if you beat someone to death you would be in danger of having to go to court to be judged.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It was all a physical thing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Most people could listen to that teaching and feel quite comfortable saying within themselves, "I have never killed anyone in a fit of rage or anger."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. What Jesus is teaching is that God who is the final judge looks on the heart. He looks at the anger that is in your heart. He reads your thoughts that say, "I wish they were dead."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. So if you are angry with your brother without a cause, according the teaching of Jesus, you are guilty of violating the command, "Thou shalt not kill" and are in danger of the judgment i.e. the civil courts.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. In the Greek, there are two words for anger.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. Thumas which is to flare up. Like a match that has just been lit. It soon dies down.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. The other is orge which is to nurse the anger to keep it burning, it is brooding over an issue.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. You might respond, "But I have good cause to be angry because of what they have done to me."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. That phrase without cause is not in some of the old manuscripts, so that in many of the newer versions they have left it out.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. You may seek to find refuge in the loophole but there is a chance that the loophole is not there.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Just back a little they heard Jesus say:</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Mat',5,11);">MAT 5:11</a> Blessed are ye, when [men] shall revile you, and persecute [you], and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Mat',5,12);">MAT 5:12</a> Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. A little further on they will hear Jesus say:`</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Mat',5,44);">MAT 5:44</a> But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. "Whoever will say to his brother Raca."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Raca the word comes directly from the Greek for it is a word that is untranslatable into English. It is more the describing the tone of voice. It was a word of utter disdain, it was like saying, "You are a brainless idiot!" "He is totally worthless." It is utter contempt.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. In a sense it is saying, "He should not exist." He is just taking up space on this crowded planet.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. If you have utter disdain or contempt for a person this is really more reprehensible to God than just being angry, and you are thus in danger of the council.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. This was the religious council (Sunedrion.)</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. In Israel in those days, they had a civil court and a spiritual court.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">f. Jesus was condemned first in the spiritual court, and they then brought Him to the civil court, in order to get a sentence of death by crucifixion.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">g. It is one thing to be guilty before men, it is something else to be guilty before God. The council had the self imposed authority to pronounce you guilty before God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">h. Jesus stood and was condemned before this council.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">i. Later the disciples on many occasions were arrested and brought before the council.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">j. They were convened to judge on spiritual issues.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. In the book of Acts on several occasions the Apostles were brought before the council.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. Stephen stood before the council, and as the result of his witness to them was taken out of the city and was stoned to death.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">k. To the Jew it was worse to be condemned by the council than by the Roman authority.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. "Whosoever shall say, Thou fool, (moros) from which we get our word moron shall be in danger of hell fire." (gehenna)</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. This speaks of the highest court of all, the supreme, supreme court. Only God can consign a man to gehenna.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. You cannot appeal your case to a higher court, the judgment is final.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Just what is so bad about calling a man a fool?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. The idea is to destroy a man's reputation through gossip.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. To spread stories about a person that totally destroys their character.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. You may not have physically killed that person, but you are a murderer in your heart.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. HOW ARE WE TO DEAL WITH THIS?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Therefore, the therefore should always cause us to ask, "wherefore is the therefore." It refers us back to what was just stated. It is a word of conclusion, usually calling for some response. What is my response?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. If I bring my gift to the altar.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. In those days they would bring their gifts to God and lay them on the altar.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. This is how I would approach God through the sacrifice on the altar.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. If I am about ready to place my gift on the altar and suddenly I remember that my brother has ought against me. I am to leave my gift there, and first go and be reconciled to my brother, and then come and offer my gift.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. This is a case where the closest distance between two points is not a straight line.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. The closest way to God is by the offended brother's home.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. If you are on the way to the court with your brother, agree with him quickly. (Jesus is suggesting that arbitration is often better than taking your chances in court.)</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The picture that He seems to be drawing here is going to court for a debt.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. In those days the paying of debts was very important.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. You could not plead that you just did not have the money to pay, for the court would order you to be sold as a slave to pay your debt.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. The amount of time you would be a slave would be equivalent to the wages that you could earn in that time.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Come to an agreement with your adversary, lest you be brought before the judges who will deliver you to the officers, and you will not be released until the uttermost farthing has been paid.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Unresolved legal issues can bring a long time of mental stress where you begin to wish all kinds of harm upon your adversary.</div>
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