Jesus Fulfilled It All

GRACE THROUGH FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH

TEXT: Matthew 5:17-20
THEME: Fulfillment of the Law – Jesus Christ Fulfilled All the Laws for Us to have an Acceptable Righteousness
TITLE: Jesus Fulfilled It All
PROPOSTIONAL STATEMENT: The Purposes of Fulfilling the Law
PURPOSE: To Understand the Law and Grace

I. INTRODUCTION
A. The Two Extremes Sides about the Law
1) Legalism – They can attain righteousness through observing the Law (Under Curse)
2) Antinomianism – For them law has no meaning anymore because Jesus already fulfilled it. (Under Delusion)

B) The Law and the Two Adams
1) First Adam – One violation of the enough so that all humanity are under curse and condemnation
2) Second Adam (Jesus) – All law must be fulfilled so that there will be righteousness for humanity

II. BODY
A. The Christ and The Law
1) Antagonists’ False Accusation
• Jesus was accused of nullifying the Law – Abolishing, Disregarding the Law
• Who are the accusers? (The Pharisees, Scribes and Saducees)
o Experts of the Law
o Keepers of the Law
o Guardians of the Law
• These accusers were the great faultfinders of Jesus in His time. And they used the Law to justified their selfish motives
o Jesus was accused of no giving of reverence on Sabbath Day - (Matthew 12:3)
o They tried to trap Jesus (Mark 12:15)
o They accused Jesus of being with the prince of demons (Matthew 12:24)
o They tried to kill Him (John 7:25; Matthew 12:14)
2) Accomplishment of the First Advent
a) The Purpose of the First Advent
• Jesus Christ always tell the purpose why He came down here on earth.
o To do the will of the Father
o To seek and save the lost
o To serve and be a ransom
o To glorify the His Father

B. The Creation and the Law
• 78 times Jesus said the phrase “I tell you the truth”
• This gives us a reason to stop for a moment and listen to what He is saying
• T he Law is more important than creation
• God had destroyed Jericho
• God had destroyed the tribes that occupies Promised Land
• God had destroyed Nineveh
• God had destroyed Egyptians in the Red Sea
• God had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah
• God had destroyed the world through water
• God will destroyed the whole universe in the Great Tribulation
These destructions show that when God’s law is violated destruction will come
1) Details of the Law
a) Smallest Letter and Stroke
• Greek Letter (Iota) meaning “jot” – Iota subscript is the smallest jot in Greek
• Hebrew Letter (Yodh) is what tittle means. The smallest stroke in Hebrew Letter
b) The Inspiration – Every word is inspired (Verbal Plenary)
• This gives an idea about inspiration
• Every title or jot is important in the Law
2) Duration of the Law
a) The Unity of the Law
• Violating one Law is Violating all Law (James 2:10)
• Disappearance of the Law if All Law will be accomplished
Questions to be Answered:
• Did Jesus Christ fulfill all the law?
o Yes, All the Categories of Law – Moral Law, Judicial Law, Ceremonial Law
• Are all laws still binding?
o There are laws which are still binding. (Moral Law – Ten Commandments minus the Sabbath)
o There are laws which are not binding anymore but must not be removed from the Scripture

C. The Church and the Law
a) Division of the People
• The People Outside the Kingdom
• The People Inside the Kingdom
o The Least in the Kingdom
• The Violators
• The Teachers by being Example to Others
o The Greatest in the Kingdom
• The Doers
• The Teachers by being Example to Others

D. The Law and the Condition
• This is all about certainty of entering the Kingdom of Heaven
1) Condition
• The need to have righteousness
2) Comparison
• Righteousness must surpassed the Righteousness of the Pharisees and Teachers of the Law
o Righteousness of the Pharisees is through observing the Law while Christians is through believing Jesus Christ that He obeyed the Law for their righteousness (Romans 9:30-32)
o The righteousness of the Pharisees is external and temporal but the righteousness of a Christian is internal and eternal

For Better Understanding
If God tells you to save yourselves by being obedient to the law from the moment of your birth until your last breath according to God’s standard, can you save yourselves? (Matthew 19:17 ; 25 – 25)
It is impossible to a man to save his self because it is impossible to keep the law until death based on the standard of God.

THE 2 PURPOSES OF FULFILLING THE LAW

1) For Revelation Purposes
• It reveals the total inability of man in keeping the law
• It reveals that man deserves hell
• It reveals hope in Jesus Christ
• It reveals that law was reserved for Christ to fulfill it (2nd Adam)
2) For Redemption Purposes
• Jesus Christ fulfill the law for us to have righteousness (Matthew 3:15 ; 2 Corinthians 5:21)

III. CONCLUSION

• If you think that you can have the righteousness through observing the law you are in dilemma
• If you believe that you can obey the law, you are in great delusion
• If you insist that you can observe the law, it means you don’t need Jesus. You are in total destruction
• What will be your response knowing that Christ obeyed the law that you cannot obey?
• Will you go on sinning and justify it?









For God’s Glory
08/14/11

Do Not Just Sit on the Pew

GRACE THROUGH FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH

TEXT: Matthew 5:13-16
THEME: The Influence of the Citizens of the Kingdom in Dark Decaying World
TITLE: Do Not Just Sit on the Pew
PROPOSTIONAL STATEMENT: Qualifications To Influence the Dark Decaying World
PURPOSE: To Motivate the Christians how to influence the dark decaying world

I. INTRODUCTION
A. Review of Matthew
• Chapter 1-2 The Promised King
• Chapter 3 The Kingdom of the King
• Chapter 4 The Ministry of the King
• Chapter 5 The Teaching of the King
o The People of the Kingdom
o The Influence of the People of the Kingdom

B. My Doctor’s Prescription
• Antibiotic – to fight and kills bacteria
• Expectorant – to expell the phlegm in my respiratory tract

II. BODY
A. Persepective - World is totally in darkness and continually decaying
• Man’s Perspective
o The song “HEAL THE WORLD” – that there is a hope and this world will be a better place to live in
o People are still looking foreward on the betterment of this world
• Scripture’s Perspective
o The this world is decaying
 Physically, morally, spiritually
 Prophecy about last days
• Great Tribulations , Love of many will grow cold, They will depart from the truth
• Jesus’ Perspective
o His perspective can be traced on His statement “You are Salt and Light of the World” - The World is Decaying

• Visible Result
o All Creation is under curse – death, sickness, war, in the last days the whole cosmos will be shaken.
• Invisible Result
o The wrath of God
o The coming judgment
o The condemnation in hell forever

B. Plan – World will be dominated by the influence of the Christians
• Salt and Light of the World is the Identity of Christian and not his Characteristics
• Being salty and brightness are his characteristics
• Salt and light are inseperable – one deals on the negative aspect and one deals on positive aspect
• Christians are the only people provided by God to influence the dark decaying world.

C. Problem – Failure to influence the dark, decaying world
• Salt – looses its saltiness
o You are in sin, joining the company whose sin is a cherry on the top of an ice cream
 Green jokes, joining the company of those who are smoking, gambling, dringking wine
 You will loose your refutation as a Christian and will lead to fail to prevent corruption because of sin
• Light – Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl
o You cannot influence other if truth will be hidden.
o People will still be in darkness or people will never been exposed to light.

Qualifications To Influence the Dark Decaying World
1) If You Hate SIN
2) If You Love TRUTH
3) If You Prioritize WORSHIP

III. CONCLUSTION
God did not call you to be a Christian and sit in your favorite place in the church. He called you to stay in the dark decaying world to lessen its decaying and give light that they may know and worship the one true God.


For God’s Glory 07/24/11

You Will Be Hated

GRACE THROUGH FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH

TEXT: Matthew 5:10-12
THEME: The Citizens of the Kingdom of God – The Peacemakers are Always in Trouble because of Jesus
TITLE: You Will Be Hated
PROPOSTIONAL STATEMENT: The Benefits of Being Persecuted
PURPOSE: To Understand the Blessedness In Times of Persecution

I. INTRODUCTION
A. The Persecution in the Old Testament
• Slavery in Egypt
• Empires
o Jeremiah, Hebrew Children, Daniel
B. The Persecution of in the New Testament and Early Church
• Jesus
• Apostles and Martyrs
o Paul, Peter, John, Andrew, Thomas, Stephen, Polycarp, John Hus
C. The Persecution in the Last Days
• Last Days (Revelation 6:10)
Note : Those Who Stand in the Truth and Proclaiming the Word will be Persecuted

II. BODY
A. The Theme of the Beatitudes – Who Are the People of the Kingdom of God?
• Being blessed or happy is exactly the opposite of world’s view of true blessedness especially the Jews
o Having a good life or easy life
o Having a good relationship toward others

B. Contrasting Beatitudes
• Christian must be a peacemaker but at the same time object of hatred, mockery, and slandering.

C. Persecution
1) Affirmation of Persecution
• Jesus Affirms that Christians Will Taste Persecution
o Prayer in John 17:14-15
o Encouragement in John 15:18-19
o Teachng in Beattitudes
• Apostles Affirms that Christians Will Taste Persecution
2) Anticipation of Persecution
• Every Christian must not be surprised when persecution will occur
• Every Christian must anticipate persecution in life
o Family, Fellowmen, Friends, Foe

D. Persecutor
Who are the Persecutors
• Mocker - They think that what you are doing and believing are nothing but foolishness
o Jesus in the hands of the Roman Soldies

• Haters – They treat Christians as a threat on their religion and they wanted them to be get rid
o Jesus in the hands of the Sanhedrin
• Slanderers – They wanted others to hate Christians
o Jesus in the hands of the people

E. Persecuted
A. The Determining the True Persecuted
• The ground by which they are persecuted
o Righteousness, Jesus,
• The reason by which they are persecuted
o Not of this world

F. The Benefits of Being Persecuted

1) You are identified with the Lord Jesus Christ (…because of righteousness and because of Jesus)


2) Your are doing your responsibility as Christian( cause of insults, persecutions, and false accusations)


3) You will receive a great reward in heaven


III. CONCLUSION
Do not be surprised when persecution came but be strong and bold to continue to serve the Lord knowing that being persecuted you are identified with Lord Jesus Christ and it is a great privilege. Continue to stand firm in the truth and continue to serve Him no matter what. Rejoice and be glad because the Lord whom you serve that caused persecutions, on that day He will tell you “My good and faithful servant.”



For God’s Glory
07/10/11