October 21, 2007: Better Than the Best – Michael Hidalgo

To be more righteous than the most righteous seems impossible to us, and even to people in Jesus’ day it seemed impossible. However, when we begin to understand what God requires us to do our possibilities are endless. We have more opportunities to do than not to do. When we define ourselves about what we are against we are not compelling. Jesus wants a group of people who will do things for him. When he talks fulfilling and abolishing it is more than legalistic observance of the Law … it is understanding it correctly. We are a group of people called to do something. For in our doing, we become more than those who simply don’t do something.