By Adrian Rogers

“For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’ But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire.”  Matthew 5:20-22

Sin is an inside job. You can take a crooked log out of the forest, put it in the sawmill, lop off the sides to make it perfectly straight, but if you look at it from the end, the heart is still crooked. The Pharisees’ lives looked straight on the outside, but on the inside their hearts were still crooked. They had not confessed the sin issues in their hearts.

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