The Inner and Outer Person
On this Communion Sunday, Pastor Rick continued in our study of The Way of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. Here again we learn from Jesus that He desires our righteousness to be both internal and external, the inner and outer person. He again corrects what people have been taught by the Scribe and Pharisees. He uses the repeated formulae “You have heard it said, but I say unto you.” The Scribes and Pharisees concerned themselves only with the external act of adultery but ignored the matters of the heart and mind. Sexual Lust. They failed to understand the connection between the two. So Jesus goes deep to help us look at the depth of sin that affects both the inner and the outer person. Finally, He give us some helpful steps to not putting ourselves in places of temptation that will cause us to sin.