There is sort of an overall lack of knowledge as to what Christ's kingdom is, it's not an age of grace, here is more on it from a theological journal:
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THE LAW ENFORCED IN DEPTH
The Law will be fulfilled in the millennial kingdom by the enforcement of every one of its commands, however small and seemingly unimportant, but that is not all. It will also be enforced in depth. That is to say,
the enforcement will not just be in terms of the letter of the Law. The
Law will be enforced in terms of its in-depth implications.
Jesus superbly illustrates the in-depth enforcement of the Law in
Matt 5:21-22:
You have heard that it was said to those of old, “You shall not
murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.” But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother
without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, “Raca!” shall be in danger of the
council. But whoever says, “You fool!” shall be in danger of
hell fire.”
There will never have been a time or place in human history like this.
If a person gets mad at his brother without good reason, he will be prosecuted for it. Or if he says to him, “Raca” (“You idiot”), it is possible he
will go before a jury.
However, this is the future King speaking. He is still talking about
how things will be in His kingdom.
The OT Law forbade murder. Behind murder there almost always
lies some form of anger. In the millennial kingdom, judgment will not be
executed on murder alone, but on anger itself, thus fulfilling the implications of the Law.
If a citizen of the kingdom expresses unjustifiable anger against a
fellow citizen he will be in danger of the judgment. The words in danger
of translate the Greek word enochos and this word can be rendered answerable to. A court hearing is implied in which the citizen would be
convicted of a misdemeanor.
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If the anger is expressed in an insulting way, so that a person calls
his fellow citizen something like an “idiot,” that person is answerable to
“the council,” a functional equivalent of a jury, where the offense is a
felony.
If the verbal abuse rises to the level of “You fool,” the offense is
punishable by banishment to Gehenna for a capital offense.
Bear in mind that at His Second Coming, the King will banish the
Beast and the False Prophet—still alive—into the lake of fire (Rev
19:20). It follows that anyone else in His kingdom can be banished to the
same place if the King commands it.
The word enochos is used for all three cases that Jesus is illustrating.
This implies that some flexibility may be used in assessing these penalties. That does not affect the obvious point. Jesus is describing a strict
enforcement of the Law that is far above and beyond anything mankind
has ever known before.
Jesus is not talking about glorified people in the kingdom. They, of
course, will be unable to sin in any way. He is talking about the type of
ordinary person who might be among the many that will participate in
the rebellion of Gog and Magog.
In fact, after a thousand years of the kind of government our Lord
describes, the world will be ripe for a revolt. When Satan is released
from the Abyss at the end of the Millennium, is it any wonder that he
will find a large response to his call for rebellion? Millions of people will
be only too ready to overthrow this unbearably strict King. They will no
longer wish to be ruled with a rod of iron (Ps 2:9; Rev 2:26-27)!
V. ESTABLISHING THE LAW
In Rom 3:31, Paul echoes what Jesus taught in Matt 5:17-19. He
writes that faith establishes the Law. To suggest that righteousness or
eternal salvation can occur on anything less than a perfect fulfillment of
the Law, is to subvert the unity, the integrity and the seriousness of the
Law. However, if no one can fulfill the whole Law, righteousness must
come by faith. Faith validates the integrity of the entire Law.
This idea is also clearly expressed by James when he writes in Jas
2:10: “For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one
point, he is guilty of all.”
To put it very simply, you are either a law-keeper or a lawbreaker.
You don’t have to break every statute in the state of Texas to go to jail.
Do you have any idea how many prisoners in Texas jails might say to
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you, “I just made one mistake”? So what? “Just one mistake” can be
good for life in prison.
If God’s Law is to have full integrity and be taken with full seriousness, we cannot say of even the smallest command, “Oh well, that command doesn’t matter very much!”
If a person in the kingdom of heaven ignores even the smallest
commandments and teaches others to do the same, he deserves to be
relegated to the bottom of the societal ladder.
If the kingdom honors the Law down to its smallest requirement,
then it follows that no ordinary righteousness can be adequate for entrance into that kingdom. In fact, that is what Jesus affirms when he says
in Matt 5:20, “For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds
the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means
enter the kingdom of heaven.”
The scribes and Pharisees were at that time the arbiters of the Law in
its strictest form. They insisted on its strict observance and they were
punctilious in observing it. To all appearances they were paragons of
righteousness in Israel. (Jesus had not yet begun to excoriate them for
their hypocrisy.)
Jesus affirms even their righteousness is inadequate for entrance into
the super-strict realm of His future kingdom. The ordinary hearer of the
Sermon on the Mount might well despair when he heard this statement.
And that was just the point. If His audience thought in terms of a
works-righteousness obtained by keeping the Law, their case was hopeless. That hopelessness, in fact, was precisely what the Law was designed to produce in people. Paul makes this clear to us in Rom 3:20
when he writes: “Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”
Having said this, he proceeds to write in Rom 3:21-22: “But now the
righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by
the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith
in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe.”
Obviously it is that righteousness, and only that righteousness, to
which Jesus is referring to in Matt 5:20. When He speaks of a righteousness that exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees He is
talking about a perfect righteousness. It is exactly such a righteousness
that is imputed to the believer in Jesus. This alone is adequate for entrance into God’s kingdom. In fact, it is adequate precisely because it is
the very righteousness of God Himself.
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If man contemplates entrance into the kingdom on the basis of some
form of imperfect righteousness, he demeans the Law. To think and
teach like that is to subvert the Law and to degrade its seriousness and
integrity.
Neither Jesus Himself nor Paul ever did that.
VI. CONCLUSION
The Sermon is contained in Matthew 5–7 and can be read in less than
thirty minutes. It is obviously greatly condensed by Matthew. Given the
large audience (Matt 5:1), it is likely that in its original form it took a
couple of hours. Matthew has condensed it for his Christian readership
and he has no need to spell out what righteousness Jesus was referring to.
In his day—if not in ours—Christians knew what this righteousness must
be. In the Sermon on the Mount, did Jesus ever explain what righteousness He was talking about in Matt 5:20? There is no way to know.
If Jesus did not explain what this righteousness was, then His Sermon is a masterpiece of pre-evangelism. Using the Law for the very purpose God intended, Jesus’ affirmation of its complete integrity could
only serve to bring deep conviction of sin to his unregenerate hearers.
If, as I suspect (based on 7:13-14), Jesus did explain this righteousness toward the end of the Sermon, then His message served as a powerful evangelistic tool. Either way, Jesus was fishing for men.
Matthew’s presentation for his Christian audience is very effective as
well. We, like the disciples mentioned in 5:1, are sitting at Jesus’ feet to
learn something about the righteousness of His future kingdom. And
having seen its superlative standards of holiness, we can aim for these in
our present Christian life.
After all, didn’t Paul write in Rom 8:3-4:
For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the
flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh that
the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us
who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the
Spirit.
Even this goal does not place us under the Law. Yet, contrary to the
opinion of many, the Law has not been done away with. Jesus did not
come to destroy it. Instead, as believers who have been united with
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Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, we have passed out of the
sphere to which the Law applies.
Mark this well; removal from the Law’s sphere affects only those
who have been baptized by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ.
Thereby they have been co-crucified with Christ and raised to live a resurrection life in Him. Paul says this plainly in Gal 2:19-20:
For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. I
have been crucified with Christ: it is no longer I who live, but
Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh, I
live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for Me.
This is the true status of all who are a part of the Body of Christ. Just
as soon as the Church is removed by the Rapture, the Law will again be
in force for God’s people. First it will be in force for the believing Jews
of the Tribulation period, as Jesus makes clear in Matthew 24. After His
kingdom is established, it will be in force for the whole world.
And in the kingdom, as the Law is enforced in all its details, men
will be able to learn the lesson it was always intended to convey: “by the
deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is
the knowledge of sin” (Rom 3:20).
Those who learn this lesson in the kingdom will have the opportunity
to believe in the King for eternal life. Those who do not learn it will be
candidates for the rebellion of Gog and Magog.