Does Your Righteousness Exceed

So, I have been taking you slowly through this passage where the Lord Jesus says – "I did not come to destroy the Law or the Prophets, but to fulfill. And we have seen that Christ has fulfilled the whole Law of God; the moral, the ceremonial, and even the judicial law as it was written in the Decalogue and relates to our obedience to God and men. He fulfilled it all, with a complete and perfect obedience to God, keeping His commandments at every point; every jot and tittle of them. We saw in verse 18 that when it says that one jot or tittle will not pass from the law until all is fulfilled, and until heaven and earth pass away, until all is fulfilled, that the Lord Jesus must therefore be referring to the righteousness of the law being fulfilled in us.
But for God's law to be fulfilled in us in any way of consistent obedience, we must come to better understand Christ's statement in verse 20 – "For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will be no means enter the Kingdom of heaven." How should we understand this statement? In order to help your understanding of what our Lord expects of us all, in terms of our own righteousness, I want to give you 2 statements of truth which flow from His words to us here.