Episode 16: How righteous is righteous?

Before Jesus could teach the true nature of righteousness, he had to reassure his hearers that his teaching upheld God’s law—and he expected his hearers to be obedient to the Law as well. In a way that must have been shocking to his hearers, he declared that they wouldn’t get into the kingdom unless they were more righteous than the scribes and Pharisees. But what does that mean? 

What is Chunks: The Sermon on the Mount?

The "Sermon on the Mount," found in Matthew chapters 5 through 7, contains some of the best-known teaching of Jesus, including the Lord's Prayer. It also includes some of the most ethically challenging words in all of the New Testament. This show will explore the sermon bit by bit, as Jesus calls believers to a kind of righteousness that is lived out in the everyday challenges of relationships.