Matthew 5:20 - Religious, But Lost

The Bible Study with Steven Lawson

OnePassion Ministries

Christianity, Romans, Expository Preaching, Religion & Spirituality, Jesus, Reformed Christianity, Bible, Christ

4.9 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this episode of Bible Study with Dr. Steven Lawson, we dive into Matthew 5:20, examining the necessity of surpassing the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees to enter the kingdom of heaven. Dr. Lawson emphasizes the urgency and exclusivity of Jesus' message in the Sermon on the Mount, comparing the false religious system of Jesus' time with today's spiritual climate. He highlights the impossibility of attaining salvation through human effort, underscoring the need for divine grace and the new birth. Join Dr. Lawson as he unpacks these profound truths, urging listeners to seek a true, transformative relationship with Christ.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, president of One Passion Ministries.
0:07.3	And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture
0:11.4	so that you can better understand the word of God
0:14.2	and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this
0:18.9	section of the Bible. So I want to begin in a word of prayer and so good to see you I've missed seeing you and
0:30.3	good to see a packed room again.
0:34.0	I'm so grateful for what God has done to rally our hearts together for this study.
0:41.0	Well, let's go to the Lord in prayer.
0:43.0	Father, we begin this day by declaring your greatness that you are high and lifted up.
0:51.0	You are holy, holy. You are flawless and perfect in your
0:57.2	character and your ways and your decisions and your
1:03.0	judgments, your grace,
1:06.0	everything is perfect
1:10.0	that you are, that you are, that you do, that you say, your word is perfect and we need to continually be grounded in your word.
1:21.3	I pray that today as we study the scripture in your
1:25.0	Holy Spirit,
1:26.0	Holy Spirit will be in our midst and within us
1:30.0	that he will shine light into our minds and grant to us an even clearer understanding of your word. So Father, we look to you, you alone are God and there is no
1:46.2	other. This is your word. It's the only perfect book in this world and it is our delight to study it. So I pray that you would
1:56.9	bless our study now in Christ's name. Amen. Well we're in Matthew chapter 5 in verse 20 and the title of this is religious but lost.
2:09.4	And as you know we're in a study on the sermon on the mount, the greatest sermon to ever be preached on
2:14.4	planet Earth by the greatest preacher who ever walked the Earth Jesus Christ
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