While it is true that we have been relieved of many of the difficult requirements of the Mosaic Law, our obligations toward God are by no means “easier”. In the latter half of Matthew 5, Jesus clarifies and perhaps raises the standard of behavior that God expects of his people.
(Preaching through the Sermon on the Mount. This sermon was preached at the Dewey Church of Christ on April 2, 2017.)
Watts in the Word 