John MacArthur: Who Is a Murderer?

Who Is a Murderer? (4/29/1979): The Pharisees said if we don't murder we're righteous. Jesus said your righteousness has to exceed that. Not murdering is not enough. . . . And Jesus gives them a teaching here about murder that's literally shocking, it is devas­tating, and it affects them in three ways, and it affects us the same three. It affects their view of themselves, God, and others. What Jesus is going to say is so dra­matic it'll shatter all of their comfortable categories. They had convinced themselves because they didn't kill anybody they were holy, they were righteous. Jesus blows that concept to bits.