The Gospel Story - Jesus Came to Fulfill the Law

This text forms a powerful connection point to the Old Testament. How does Jesus relate to God’s past work in history? What does his grace say about our call to serve him? Notice the context of this passage—the Sermon on the Mount. These instructions (chapters 5–7) represent the core of Jesus’s ethical teachings in the gospels. This sermon answers an important question: How should we seek to live in this new kingdom? We can learn to live obedient, pure lives by examining what Jesus says here about anger, lust, love, giving, prayer, anxiety, and more.