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Can it appear as if Jesus' sermon on the mount teaches a works righteousness?
I just started reading through Matthew 5 in my 'quiet time. Grace is not mentioned, at least explicitly. We have a perfect standard in the law, and we should be striving and desiring to live by the commandments, but we as sinners will always fall woefully short, thus Jesus' atonement for our behalf.
It would have been nice for Matthew to make that point. I can see why those who teach some sort of work righteousness comes from. It is just incomplete but without a strong systematic approach I can see where it comes from.
John Chaney
"having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith . . ." Colossians 2:7
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