The seventh Sunday after Epiphany.  This week the sermon helps us see how Jesus is revealed at the perfect human: completely meeting each and every requirement of God’s Holy law.  In his teaching, Jesus does not endorse the Old Testament, but rather “ups the ante”, so to speak. Jesus meets all the requirements of the old covenant, but he takes those requires to a new level – in some cases, 2x.  E.g. if you are asked to go one mile, go two.  He says this requirement now falls on us!  But who can meet this standard?  No one. Only Jesus.  And that is the good news; that what he has accomplished is credited to the account of true believers!  What a gracious God we have.