Sermon on the Mount — Keith Daniel

It's been such a delight to have been under the ministry of our Brother Keith Daniels this week. Some of you may be here for the first time tonight. Our brother has come to us from South Africa, where he is involved with his wife and three children in the work of evangelism, ministering the Word of God in different conferences and situations throughout South Africa and many other nations of the earth.

We have been enriched by the richness of the Word through him. So, Brother Keith, we welcome you again tonight for the breaking of the bread and the feeding of the sheep and all of the other things you want to do tonight under God's leadership.

Thank you.

Thank you. Could I just take one moment of thanking? I think I'll keep all my thank-yous for Sunday night, otherwise there might not be enough time to preach. But I'm going to thank tonight just again for these lovely children's choir and give a singing for Jesus Christ tonight, dear children.

And thank you to this lovely choir that God has so privileged you in this church to have, and the godly choir masters and the orchestra. I do praise God for that. And thank you also for the dear minister of this church and his co-minister, where I'm going to have to go on and on saying thank you.

But thank you for your godly lives and the love of Christ in you and me while I'm in your country. But I'd just like to especially thank tonight Harold Vaughan, who is a member of your congregation and who of course heads the Christ Life Ministries.

He will not be with us again after tonight, and I'm sure he wouldn't like me to say anything to him. I'm sure he'd bleed right now, but forgive me. He won't be seeing me again after tonight, and this is the last time I'll be preaching while he's in the meeting, before he leaves for God's work.

Commitment he has. Thank you. So, I hope my eyes are focused because I saw you just now. Thank you for your life, and thank you for bringing me to your country. I've been invited to America many times, and many other countries that I've never gone to.

My wife and I seek God with invitations to accept, and somehow I've never felt that it was God that was in the invitations before. Although I'd love to have done it, we just don't know what to turn away.

But this time, without me knowing Mr. Vaughan, but other people speaking to me of him, we knew that it was God's will to come. Now when I stood in your meeting, sir, up on a hill in the moon's advance, I will say from my heart that God is with you in a remarkable way.

I sense something is coming. If you would, by God's grace, stay low in the dust, it's not easy to stay there. It's the only place you're safe if God were to come and use you. Willing to stay there, sir.

Willing to stay in the water you have now, and the vision, and the hope, and the faith you have in God for revival. I saw how many men from across this country, and I would say the cream of God's people, and the undoubted from across this country, have somehow linked to you.

And when I sensed the atmosphere in those meetings, I knew something. Oh may God please, so I can continue to raise up something that I must give to this country for inviting me. I may never come back to America, I hope I do, because I've fallen in love with the land.

But if ever it was just this one occasion, and to stand alongside of you, sir, I have no doubt that God had in mind this church also. This is no mistake. Perhaps I could have gone through very much larger churches, but I have no doubt this is the church God knew I would like to have been in, because Godly men, and God for the privilege, to be alongside of him.

Pretty soon we can. I need to say thank you to Mr. Vaughan. Father, please, have mercy now, come wash me in the blood of Christ. And the longer I serve thee, the more I realize I have nothing to hope in.

Comes more and more to me, God, and I stand in my pulpit tonight, and I look to the blood, that I may have the right to preach away from myself, for I know I could never achieve that. And we all look away from ourselves, we know that could never be achieved in our attempt for that to have come.

The Sermon on the Mount and the Church’s Calling

But we look to our God, our expectations in thee, in thee only, and we trust. Make thy word, in Christ's name. The most staggering sermon that has ever been preached in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ is known to the world as the Sermon on the Mount.

It was preached by our Lord Jesus, and it is found in Matthew 5, 16, 17. Seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he was set, his disciples came unto him, and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying, Blessed, blessed are the poor in spirit, that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Blessed, for they are pure in heart, for they are the peacemakers of God, that are persecuted for righteousness, for theirs. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so persecuted the prophets which are before you. Ye are the salt of the earth, ye are the salt of the earth, have lost, wherewith shall it be salted?

It is then swapped good for nothing, good for nothing, to be cast out, and to be trodden on the foot of men. Ye are the light of the world, ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid, neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and give it light unto all within the house.

Now let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one ticker shall in no wise pass, and the law shall all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven.

But whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill. But I say unto you that whosoever is angry, ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill, and whosoever kills shall be in danger of the judgment.

But I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother, Raka, that is thy vain fellow, shall be in danger of the counsel.

But whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hellfire. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way.

First be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him, lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out the uttermost starving. Ye have heard that it was said by men of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say unto you, I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

And if thy right eye do cause thee to offend, pluck it out and cast it from thee, for it is profitable to thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

And if thy right hand do cause thee to offend, cut it off and cast it from thee, for it is profitable to thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Whosoever put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement. But I say unto you that whosoever put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, cause with her to commit adultery. And whosoever shall marry her that is divorced, committeth adultery again.

Christ’s Teaching on Truthfulness, Nonretaliation, and Love

Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not beswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths. But I say unto you, swear not at all, swear not at all, neither by heaven, for it is God's throne, nor by the earth, for it is his footstool, neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king.

Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black, but let your communication be yea, yea, nay, nay, yes or no, for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. But I say unto you that ye resist not evil. But whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also, to compel thee to go a mile, goeth and twain, goeth and two miles. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow thee, turn that thou away.

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, I say unto you, Love your enemies, love your enemies. Bless them that curse you, bless them that curse you.

Do good to them that hate you, do good to them that hate you. And pray for them which despisefully use you, and persecute you, that ye may be the children of your father which is in heaven. For he maketh his son to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not ye the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Do not ye the publicans souls? Be ye therefore perfect, be ye therefore perfect, even as your father which is in heaven is perfect.

Secret Righteousness, Prayer, and Forgiveness

And take heed, take heed that ye do not your arms, your righteousness, your piety, your religion, take heed that ye do not your arms before men to be seen of them, otherwise ye have no reward of your father which is in heaven.

Therefore when thou doest thine arms, do not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that there may be a glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.

But when thou doest arms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth, that the knowledge be in secret, and thy father which seeth it in secret himself shall reward thee openly. And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that there may be seen of men.

Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy father which is in secret, and thy father which seeth it in secret shall reward thee openly.

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they shall be heard to the much speaketh. Be not ye therefore like unto them, for your father knoweth what things he hath needed before ye asketh.

After this manner, therefore, pray ye, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Moreover, when ye fast, when ye fast, be not of this the hypocrites of a sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear unto men depart.

Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head and wash thy face, that thou appear not unto men depart, but unto thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly, openly.

Treasures in Heaven and Freedom from Anxiety

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth. Where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be. Also the light of the body is the eye.

If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

No man can serve two masters. No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and man. Ye cannot serve God and be materialistic.

Ye cannot. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor yet for your body what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat and the body than raiment?

Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are you not much better than they? Which of you, by taking thought, can add one cubit unto his stature?

And why take ye thought for raiment? Why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Wherefore if God so clothed the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you? O ye of little faith! O ye of little faith! Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewithal shall we be clothed?

For after all these things do the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow. Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, and judge not, that ye be not judged.

Judgment, Prayer, and the Narrow Way

For at what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged. And at what measure ye meet, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the moat that is in thy brother's eye, the speck that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

For how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the moat out of thine eye? And behold, a beam is in thine own eye. Thou hypocrite! Thou hypocrite! First cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly.

To cast out the moat out of thy brother's eye, give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast you your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Ask, ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

What man is there of you, whom, if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? If he ask a fist, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that man should do to you, do ye even so to them. For this, this is the law. And the prophet, enter ye in at the straight gate. Enter ye in at the straight gate, for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction.

And many there be which go in thereat, because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, narrow, narrow, narrow is the way which leadeth unto life. And few there be that find it, few there be that find it.

False Prophets, True Fruit, and Obedient Disciples

Beware, beware of false prophets, beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them, ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Even so, every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.

Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall answer unto the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works.

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you, I never knew you, I never knew you, I never knew you. Depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man which built his house upon a rock.

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the wind blew and beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock. And everyone that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand.

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the wind blew and beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it, great was the fall of it, great was the fall. And it came to pass, it came to pass when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes, not as the scribes.

The Salt of the Earth and the Church’s Lost Effectiveness

In the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew chapter 5 verse 13, we read this staggering verse. Ye are the salt of the earth, ye are the salt of the earth, but what if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

It is then thought good for nothing, it is then thought good for nothing, but to be cast out and to be trodden underfoot of men. One of the greatest theologians that ever lived in the history of the church interpreted this verse to these words.

You are the world's seasoning, church of Jesus Christ, ye are the salt of the earth, you are the world's seasoning, church of Jesus Christ, to make it tolerable to live in, to make it tolerable to live in.

But if you lose your effectiveness, your reality, your impact, what will happen to the world? If you lose your effectiveness, your reality, your impact, what will happen to the world? And you yourselves will eventually be thrown out by them, your religion considered worthless.

If you lose your effectiveness, church of Christ, this is what one of the greatest theologians that ever lived in the history of the church interprets Christ's words to mean. If you lose your effectiveness, you will eventually be thrown out by them, your religion considered worthless.

I believe the church of Christ has come to a crisis at this moment of the history of the world, a terrible crisis. We have lost our effectiveness, we have lost our impact, we have lost our vital reality.

We're there, but when we look at the world and what is happening to the world, the words of Christ are to come to us, not to the government of the United States of America, in the laws they pass, not to the president of the United States of America.

God doesn't cry to him, God cries to you, to you when the world comes to a place where Christ says to the church, if you have lost your effectiveness, what will happen to the world? I believe we have come to a crisis, and I believe with all my heart that it is time for us to look back to the scriptures desperately.

And I find here in the Sermon on the Mount, Christ's cry to the church of how they should find effectiveness, of the stepping stones to be the salt of the earth in truth, in vital reality, in effectiveness, in daily living.

I believe in the Sermon on the Mount, Christ cries out to you and I, how to be, how to be that salt of the earth, should we ever lose it. And here we start with what is known as the Beatitudes, and I see here stepping stones given to you and I as the salt of the earth, to take when we realize we need desperately to find vital reality in Christ again, and become the salt of the earth, before we look at this world and see nothing but moral decadence and destruction, and hopelessness of decency.

I believe the stepping stones of God are laid down here to the church,.

Of how to come into vital reality with God, and have impact on the world that would stop sin. Would stop decadence. Listen to these stepping stones that God has given us. Blessed, he says, blessed are the poor in spirit.

Can that be so? What is God saying here? Blessed are they that mourn. Is he speaking about when death comes? No. Blessed are the meek. Do you know what that word means literally? Broken. Broken. How can it be blessed to mourn?

How can it be blessed to be poor in spirit? How can it be blessed to be broken? This is why, to this man will I look, God says. To this man will I look, even to him that is of a broken heart, and a conflict spirit, when you and I come to a place that we begin to mourn over our condition.

The Beatitudes: Brokenness, Hunger, and Imparted Righteousness

When we see the world going and turning its back on God, and going to hell, and we're not reaching them. We're doing nothing to stop the nation turning its back on God. And we begin to mourn, because we know it's us.

When we begin to mourn, God looks at us again, and revival can come. But not before church of Jesus Christ. Not before. No hope of revival, till we mourn spirits and broken. And God looks to this man.

Will I look. Now God knows he can do something with you. Even to him that is a broken heart, and a contrite spirit. But then be careful now, church of Christ. The next step is there. That was just the first.

The next step that Christ lays before you and I. The next step we must look at and take. It's no good being poor in spirit. It's no good mourning over our condition. Broken over our condition. That's not blessed to be to stay in that condition.

Mourning at what we are. No. If this is the step you've taken, now God is looking. Now take the next step. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness. After righteousness to hunger.

Come, hunger child. Get desperate with me. After righteousness again. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness. For they shall be filled. Do you know what that word means? Filled.

The closest you will ever come to that word meaning is satisfied. Why does God say that? Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness. For they shall be satisfied. If you're in a desert.

If you're in a desert and you're hungering and you're thirsting and a man walks up to you and put one million dollars there in front of you into the jaws and he walks and leaves you and disappears. You won't be satisfied.

That won't satisfy you. That would be meaningless to you. You'll only be satisfied when you receive that which you're hungering for, which you're thirsting for. God says if you're hungering and you're thirsting after righteousness, nothing will satisfy you.

I know that. You will be made righteous. The only thing that will satisfy you in the spiritual life, when you begin to get real with God, when you begin to get serious and desperate with God, nothing will satisfy you.

But I will get you righteous. You will be made righteous in your mourning if you begin to seek me to make you righteous again. I will. And you will be satisfied with the one thing you are hungering for and thirsting for.

I will give you. I will give you. I will work it in your heart. There's two righteousnesses spoken to you and I in the Bible. Righteousness imputed and righteousness imparted. Now, righteousness imputed by God is nothing on your side.

It's God declaring you righteous because of your faith in the blood. It's what Christ did that enables God to declare you righteous. That's its salvation. But when you come to God and look to the blood, nothing in my hands I bring, simply the cloth I clean, as you heard last night.

Righteousness imputed to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is concerted to him for righteousness. In one moment, God declares you righteous. Not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.

In one moment, God, through your faith, declares and you are imputed. Righteousness is imputed to your life. That is God's righteousness imputed. But that is not what Christ is speaking of here. Christ is speaking of righteousness, God's righteousness imparted in and through your life.

Righteousness imparted. God making you righteous that men may see your good work and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Not one verse in the entire scriptures, not one verse in the entire of the Sermon on the Mount speaks here to you and I of righteousness imputed, but only of righteousness that works.

God's righteousness to scatter the world, working in your life. He makes you righteous. Righteous. It has to be. Look at every verse, otherwise the whole sermon doesn't make sense. Every verse related, oh, by the blood, yes, to purify the heart, and the Holy Ghost taking you at absolute surrender to God, you are made pure in heart.

God makes you righteous. Oh, blessed is the pure in heart, you'll see God's. You'll see God now. You'll see God now. This is not speaking about later. Oh, when God's righteousness is imparted to your life, look at what happens.

Look at what happens. You find suddenly the ability with a pure heart, a heart made pure by blood, purified when you are pure in heart, you're righteous, you receive God's righteousness. You suddenly, suddenly find the ability to forgive so that God can forgive you.

You suddenly find the ability to be peacemakers here in church, to your enemies, to those you differ with. Suddenly, righteousness, God's righteousness imparted as a result of the fullness of the Holy Ghost.

When you are at absolute surrender to God, when God takes hold of you and imparts his righteousness, you find the ability to become peacemakers, to forgive, not only after. And oh, how blessed it is we step.

But even further, look what happens now. You will find you are persecuted for righteousness' sake. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake. You will never be persecuted for righteousness imputed.

No man will find any reason, but righteousness imparted. Oh, you will have persecution from your home, sir. When you walk back into this world with God's righteousness working out in your life, do you know why?

Oh, you become the so-called who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution, God said. Do you know that? At the cost at the beginning of when the Bible speaks to church, I guarantee you, but blessed are you that they persecuted the prophets which are before you for the same reason.

Oh, blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake. Blessed are the evil men who revile you and persecute you and says they all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake rejoice. But if it's not, if it's the truth what they say about you, then there is nothing to be blessed about.

But if it's false accusations, why? Because they are persecuting you. Blessed are they because you are the salt. The salt of the earth suddenly is functioning. The salt of the earth is suddenly functioning.

You're the salt of the earth. Sin can't go forward when you're company. When you walk into your home, you suddenly suddenly find because righteousness is imparted in your life, your family suddenly has a quick conscience of you walking back.

Suddenly they know daddy's agonizing while they're watching the pillows and they can't enjoy their sin. And so a man's own house turns to become of enemy, turns against him. Christ says it won't ever do that unless it's your life, making them uncomfortable in sin, making them unable to enjoy sin, because you're there wherever you step back at work.

Men can't enjoy it. You suddenly will find persecution, sir. Persecution because you're the salt of the earth. Sin cannot advance. Sin cannot be enjoyed in your company. Men's hearts condemn them in your company, sir, because you're the salt of the earth.

Fulfilling the Law Through Holy Living

But God has that, and believe me, from your children to your wife to your enemy at work, whose conscience you find suddenly that you fulfill the law. You don't stoop to those Christians in our day and age who are glib to say this to justify their being carnal, backslidden, unaffected Christians.

You don't stoop to say, I'm not under the law, I'm under grace. You couldn't stoop to that. You wouldn't. Those people who say, I'm not under the law, I'm under grace, they all end up in disgrace without exception, without exception.

Just give them time. No one who clings to that with glibness will not find his grace coming upon their lives. No, you wouldn't stoop to that once you have a heart made pure by God's blood. Once you've been made pure in heart and you have God's righteousness imparted, you find you fulfill the law.

The law of God is fulfilled. You know, Christ said, I haven't come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it in your life. Not by some rigid discipline and lawishness where you apply yourself to all forms of laws.

No, that's not what Christ fulfills the law. Suddenly you find as a result of your absolute surrender to God and God taking complete control of you, you find that you just fulfill the law spontaneously.

No written laws that you're rigidly trying to apply yourself in lawishness. No. In every circumstance, no matter how difficult it is, no matter what persecution is coming upon you, no matter how unjust man is to you, no matter what filter surrounding you, you'll find spontaneously you just fulfill the law of God for God is fulfilling it in your life spontaneously.

That's the result of God's righteousness imparted to God's people. Oh, you find you fulfill the law. Listen, in case you don't believe what Christ is saying, in case you think we're getting you back into bonds of the law, he says you've heard what was said by them of old time.

You heard what the law said. Thou shalt not kill. And who shall kill shall be in danger of judgment. But I say unto you, but who shall be angry? You wouldn't kill, not now. But you find the law is 100 times higher than the Old Testament.

It doesn't detract and take you away from the life of law. You are fulfilling a higher standard by at least 100 times higher spontaneously, not rigidly or trying by learning of laws and trying to apply your life to them.

Your life suddenly is lifted to a standard of the full revelation of God to man. You don't even be angry, let alone kill. You find the ability not to be angry. And any anger that comes in your life is not sin.

It's righteous indignation that the person you're indignated to knows you're not sinning, knows you're holy. There's no such a thing as a carnal anger in your life ever again without cause. It's God's anger that makes man tremble into you.

You find yourself fulfilling the law. Christ tells you you'll be able to, from that moment, find the grace that if you come to him from that moment, you'll be able to go straight away and put things right with everybody that's with you.

Before you want to take another step, you just do it. You'll find the ability to do it. There's no struggle. You're just reaching out from that moment that God's righteousness is imparted. Do you know, church, what you'll be for Christ once this happens?

You'll find the ability that while you're in the way of anybody who in any way is offended at you, while you're there, you don't find it difficult. While you're there, you'll grab hold of him and you'll put things right that you can never have to give account to God as to why you didn't.

To win him. To win him. You'll find the amazing righteousness of God imparted into your life. You'll find the ability. Dear friend, you'll find in the Old Testament God saying thou shalt not commit adultery.

But because of God's righteousness imparted, you wouldn't commit adultery. No. But you now, you won't even look at a woman to lust after her. You have that ability not to look at a woman, again, to lust after her.

To commit adultery in your heart with her. You don't do that when God's righteousness has given you a pure heart. You're pure in heart. Oh no. And as a result of that, your marriage won't fall apart. I don't say every marriage comes to divorce through this, but most marriages do.

Most marriages come to be destroyed through people lusting after others. It's not enough, this wife, I said, that God is all I need. Until death, I will never part with him. No. You will find a result of God's righteousness in this wicked, corrupt world that's trying to destroy marriages.