What did Jesus mean when he said, let your yes be yes and your no be no? Why is it so important that we

don't take oaths? Hey friends, welcome to the line of fire. This is Michael Brown as we continue in the

sermon on the Mount our study in the words of Jesus. Remember what Jesus said, John 15.7. If you abide in me and my words

abide in you, ask what you will and it will be done for you. Why? Because as we are living in him

and his words are living in us, we come into harmony with his will. We come into harmony with his heart. And therefore, what we ask is

according to his heart, according to his will. That's why it says in Psalm 1, that the man who

meditates on God's teaching, God's Torah, day and night, to meditate means to recite, to repeat,

to mutter it over and over and over.

Not only will that person be like a tree planted by streams of water that brings forth

fruit and season and whose leaf never withers, but that person, it says, whatever he does

will succeed.

Why?

Because he's in harmony with God.

She's in harmony with God.

And what they set a hand to do is in harmony with the

will of God. And therefore, he blesses it. So taking in the words of Jesus as life giving and life

transforming. And the great commission, he told his disciples in Matthew 28 to go and make disciples of the nations, teaching them to observe everything

I have already taught you. It's past tense in the Greek. Everything I've taught you. So we go back

through the Gospels. We see what he's taught. And as we make disciples, we teach them these very

things. Matthew chapter 5, verse 33. 33 again you've heard that it was said to the

people do not break your oath but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made so you may

remember reading the book of numbers in particular there are laws about vows if you make a

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