The Law is Excellent Part 2

The Law is excellent because it makes the saved person to become excellent too. Jesus said,For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.Mat 5:20

The word “surpass” means “be excellent”. Therefore, we must be excellent to go far beyond than the righteousness of the Pharisees who outwardly follow the law but inwardly they are filled with hypocrisy. Their lips speak of the law but their heart is far from what Jesus had really intended on the law.

It was very clear, Christ did not do away with the Law; He fulfilled it (Matt. 5:17). He also taught that the Law would never pass away, and that whoever would break even the least of the commandments and teach others to do so shall be the least in the kingdom of heaven (Matt. 5:18, 19). Jesus himself had surpassed the law and Christians should do the same also.

We are called to be excellent, Paul said, “Be excellent of what is good (Rom 16:19).

Did you know that a “truly saved” person does not and should not sin anymore, excellent not to go on sinning?

No one who has been born from God practices sin, because God's seed abides in him. Indeed, he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born from God. 1Jn 3:9

Actually, the truth is, a saved person will still go on sinning. However, when a saved person had commit sin it should not be intentional and habitual. Those who continually go on sinning in which he knows sin is sin, evil is evil the bible said that person is not a children of God( 1 Jon 3:8). Therefore, not saved.

To become excellent of what is good is to avoid and hate what already knows is sin and evil.

We know that not to tell a lie, not to look with a lust, not to steal and not to anger-murder are good. If in some reason that those who claimed saved had intentionally and continuously lie, lust, steal and murder then accordingly as what the bible tells, will not certainly enter heaven.

The moral law or the Ten Commandments needs more than keeping, fulfilling and obeying. We need to surpass it the way Jesus did.

Becoming expert on the law is not our main goal but to be excellent of what is good. That in any possible way our “good works” ( as a saved person) should never and ever be contrary and against to the exact and real intent of the Law.