Jesus strips us stark naked of our self-righteousness and says if you're angry with a brother

or if you hate somebody, you're a murderer. Jesus is saying, even if you don't do the killing,

if your heart is full of anger and hate, you're a murderer. Hate brings you nearer to murder

than any other emotion. And hate is merely the extension of what? Anger.

Anger.

Welcome to Grace to you, the Bible teaching ministry of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

If someone accused you of ever lying or ever hurting someone with an unkind word,

you'd have to say, yes, guilty as charged.

But something as serious as murder, that's way beyond anything you've ever done, right?

Or is it? Answering that question starts by

understanding what Jesus himself said about sin, not just sinful behavior, but the sinful

attitudes that no one can see. Today on Grace to You, John MacArthur moves beyond a shallow

view of sin to expose the heart motivations where

sin takes root, as John continues his study titled The Sinfulness of Sin. And now with today's

lesson, here is John MacArthur. Matthew chapter 5 and verse 21, I've titled this passage,

Who is a Murderer? Because I really think that's what our Lord is talking about. Now, notice what our Lord says in verse 21. You have heard it said by them

of old, thou shalt not kill.

Where did that come from?

Well, if you know anything about the revelation of God, you know it came basically from Exodus chapter 20 when God gave the decalogue and said thou shalt not kill.

But scripture has a lot more to say about murder than just that.

In fact, if we go back even in the

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