I am a Jesus pusher!!! “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, . . . But I say to you” (Matthew 5:21-22). The EVIDENCE of the spiritual realm is in the debris of our physical world. The crucifixion of Jesus highlights this truth. The scribes and Pharisees saw the crucifixion of Jesus as the removal of a physical obstacle. They removed a physical barrier to maintain their physical organization and personal physical comfort. They did not realize they were staging war in the spiritual realm. “There was darkness over all the land” (Matthew 27:45). “The veil of the temple was torn in two” (Matthew 27:51), the protection for the holiest place in the temple. The physical Earth could not tolerate what was happening in the spiritual realm (Matthew 27:51). What happened in the spiritual realm was so powerful it gave evidence of its disturbance in the physical world.
Jesus exclaimed this in our passage (Matthew 5:21). The Kingdom of God calls us to a new understanding of spiritual and physical interaction. The scribes and Pharisees dismissed the spiritual aspect of life, limiting their view to physical activities. The physical expression of anger, demeaning, and belittling is equal to the physical activity of murder. The evidence of such is the destruction in our physical relationships, carrying in our lives the marks of spiritual death. Our only chance for redemption is Jesus filling our helplessness. I am a Jesus pusher!!!