In Room Questions

1. 1. How is the video’s description of righteousness similar to or different from the way you’ve typically understood it?
   2. What kinds of attitudes or actions could be seen as “doing right by your neighbor” for Jesus followers today?

Small Group Questions

1. Why does Jesus connect anger and name-calling to murder?
2. How is looking at someone lustfully rooted in the same attitude as adultery?
3. What does Jesus actually mean when he says to “cut off your hand” and “pluck out your eye”?
4. When talking about divorce and remarriage, how is Jesus advocating for the fair treatment of women?
5. When you consider Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:21-32, what does he seem to be saying about the value of humans?

THE MAIN POINT

Two thousand years ago, on the eastern side of the Mediterranean, a teacher named Jesus of Nazareth climbed a hillside and started teaching people about the Kingdom of the Skies—the renewed world God had long promised. For largely poor, oppressed Galilean farmers and laborers, this was good news. The Kingdom of the Skies represents a new kind of society where generosity, justice, and peace reign. It’s a world where love is the final word.

THE BIBLE

Matthew 5: 17-32, Exodus Ch 19-24

Video 1

Video 2