Introduction--Some of our greatest temptations to DO WRONG come to us when we KNOW we have been DONE WRONG.-The flesh desires to get even. -The flesh desires to respond to others in the way that we have been treated.-We said this morning that the scribes and Pharisees approached righteousness in a way - they read and applied Scripture in a way - that baptized worldliness into their religious system.-All the sins of their world, sinful anger, sexual immorality, a low view of marriage, and deceptive communication, were being excused in the name of God.-And so was the desire that the natural man has to seek his own vengeance.-Payback is what the natural man does.--I'm simply treating you the way you treated me.---If you don't like this, then maybe you should think about the way you're treating me.---I don't get mad, get even.---You better think twice, because you don't know who you're messing with.--You hear these kinds of responses from people.-ALL OF THEM SPEAK OF TIT FOR TAT. -Tit for tat - -An English saying meaning 'equivalent retaliation.'--Jesus addresses that attitude in our verses.-WE ARE REMINDED, BY THIS 5TH EXAMPLE, THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT JUST DISTORTED BY A SUPERFICIAL READING OF SCRIPTURE, BY REDUCING THE DEMANDS OF SCRIPTURE, OR BY ADDING TO THE ALLOWANCES OF SCRIPTURE. -RIGHTEOUSNESS IS DISTORTED WHEN WE MISAPPLY THE SCRIPTURES.-Righteousness is distorted when we take a truth meant to be applied in one realm, and then WRONGLY apply it to another realm.-That is the kind of distortion represented in this 5th example.-The scribes and Pharisees used the misapplication of Scripture to justify sinful responses that characterize lost humanity.--I. WHAT THE PEOPLE