Matthew 5 - Murder & Adultery

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Matthew 5:17-18

Jesus teaches His disciples that He came to fulfill all the law and the prophets, and that they were to look to those laws with spiritual eyes; there are spiritual truths behind the natural requirements of the law that cause all men to be sinners.  

For example, He tells them that hatred of the heart is the same as murder AND that to lust with the eyes is the same as adultery. This was not understood by the religious rulers of Jesus' day and it isn't understood by many sitting in the pews of our modern churches.

Just as Paul explained in the book of Romans, the law is a shadow of Jesus the Savior, and it fulfills its purpose by revealing the sin nature in all of us. When confronted by the righteous, inflexible law, all of us come to see that we are sinners in need of a savior.

But once we receive the savior, Jesus Christ, we become born again, children of God, partakers of the divine nature. That is very good news, indeed!