There is a great temptation that exists when it comes to religion and godliness. There becomes a great temptation to just give me a set of rules. Just tell me what I need to do. Just give me the rules so that I know where I stand. We want the rules. It is easy for us to fall into such thinking. We ask questions that start with these words, “Do I have to….” “Do I have to” questions always are triggered from wanting to know what the minimum rules are to keep. In fact, over the last hundred years there have been attempts to try to boil down following Jesus into sets of rules. We can talk about the five steps of salvation. We might have heard about five acts of worship. We might hear about belonging to a church that has a certain set of characteristics. Now you might wonder what the problem is. The problem that can arise is that we focus on the rules and miss the reasoning and purpose. We can miss the intention of worship and just focus on doing five things. We can miss the purpose of salvation and only focus on certain actions. This is where the Pharisees are in the days of Jesus. They have paid attention to rules and missed the reasoning and purpose. We are going to see this problem and why it is so important in Matthew 12…

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