1. HIGH STANDARDS
Matthew 5:17-20, 48
Pew Bible pp. 959, 960

2. Foundational Truths There is a God.
We can know God because God has revealed Himself to us.
The Bible is the Word of God.
The nature and character of God…
God created all things that exist.
God created human beings in His image.
Jesus is the supreme revelation of God.

3. Jesus requires His followers to live by the highest moral standards.
Truth to Take with You
Jesus requires His followers to live by
the highest moral standards.

8. How Jesus Fulfilled the Law
By fully completing the requirements related to forgiveness for sin. Heb. 10:1-18

9. Hebrews 10:1
The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. (glass half full)

10. Hebrews 10:12,14,18
But when this priest [Christ] had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God… For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy… And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary. (glass full)

11. How Jesus Fulfilled the Law
By fully completing the requirements related to atonement for sin. Heb. 10:1-18
By clarifying the requirements of Law related to moral behavior. Matt. 5:21-28

12. Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.
Leviticus 19:2
Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.

13. Philippians 3:13-14
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

14. Truth to Take with You Challenge
Jesus requires His followers to live by
the highest moral standards.
Challenge
Adopt Jesus’ high moral standard
as your moral standard, and
with God’s help…
GO FOR IT!