and by that law

"How Good is Good Enough?" {Matt5:17-20}
* Intro:
- How will you answer before the Gate? Why let you in?
- Most will use the excuse of goodness; but what is the threshold?
* Jesus came to fulfill Scripture
- Fulfilled messianic prophesies
- Fulfilled requirements of Law
- Revealed true meaning of Law
- Fulfilled sacrificial offerings
* Law is unchangeable
- Can be trusted to the smallest penstroke
- Not a pick up and choose gospel -- all truth
- Even under grace, Law important -- reflects moral character of God
* New kind of righteousness
- Based on internal, not external conformity (obedience of heart, not body)
- Based on transformation, not sin avoidance
- Based on relationship, not rules
- True religion far diff from burden of rules {Luke11:46}
- Threshold is perfection. Only through Christ.