Let Your Praise Be from God

From the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount Jesus has been essentially dealing with behavior, telling us what we should and shouldn’t do, how we should and shouldn’t respond under various circumstances, and how we should and should not treat people both inside and outside the kingdom, but now he is going to begin to tell us that simply doing the right thing is not enough. Right behavior driven by wrong motives is just as sinful in the eyes of God as wrong behavior itself.