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26. Epiphany 6

Mt 5:21-37 · 1 Cor 3:1-9 · Ps 119 · Dt 30:15-20

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... from the beginning of our examination of the year and its lessons that the function of the liturgy is to be understood in relation to the Paschal mystery. At no time is it more dangerous to forget that than now when the gospel lessons are from the Sermon on the Mount. The dangers on are two sides. First, there is the danger of a neo-legalism, an emphasis on obeying the law with a Christian veneer. Christians have been given a superior law that we have to keep if Christ's atonement is to have any effect ...

27. Plain Talk

Luke 6:17-26

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Charles H. Bayer

... poor, the left out, the desperate, the marginalized. And if I read the statistics right, that's most of the people of today's world. Which gospel do we read -- and love? If I asked how many of you have heard of and can even quote sections of the Sermon on the Mount -- Matthew's beatitudes or the Lord's Prayer, for instance -- I'd get a pretty good show of hands. But if I asked how many of you knew of and could quote anything from Jesus' plain talk in Luke, there would be little response. We can take comfort ...

28. Murder

Matthew 5:21-26

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... : Kingdom Ethics and the Law: Matthew’s Gospel has a didactic purpose. Special emphasis is given to the message of Jesus. One of the distinct features of Matthew’s Gospel is that the teaching of Jesus is collected into five sections. The Sermon on the Mount (chaps. 5–7) is the first of these blocks. The others are Instructions to the Twelve (chap. 10), Parables of the Kingdom (chap. 13), Life in the Christian Community (chap. 18), and Eschatological Judgment (chaps. 23–25). Each block closes with a ...

29. Love for Enemies

Matthew 5:43-48

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

30. Trials and Temptations

James 1:1-18, James 1:19-27

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... , as H. Kleinknecht shows (“Orgē,” TDNT, vol. 5, p. 384). Later Jewish writers rejected it as incompatible with wisdom (Sirach 27:30; Wisdom 10:3; cf. Job 36:13; 18; Prov. 12:16; 27:3; 4; 29:8; 30:33). In Christian literature not only does the Sermon on the Mount reject anger using the same term as James does (Matt. 5:22), but anger is frequently included in lists of vices (Eph. 4:31; Col. 3:8). Prayer is incompatible with anger (1 Tim. 2:8). Ephesians 4:26 (quoting Ps. 4:4) indicates that Paul did not ...

31. Listening and Doing

James 1:19-27, James 1:1-18

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

32. Fear of Missing Out

Matthew 5:38-42

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Leonard Sweet

... . It is that new reality, the reality of God’s presence made human on earth through a body of human beings, where love and compassion become the driving forces in our lives, that is the heart of gospel. And it must be the Heart of the Church. The Sermon on the Mount tells us that no one has to miss out. In His message on that hill with people from everywhere and all walks of life gathered around Him, Jesus tells us that we are invited to tune in, join in, come in, be in relationship with Him. And that ...

33. Loving Like God Loves

Matthew 5:43-48

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Phil Thrailkill

... cares for everyone he takes captive.” Such stories are humbling; they raise the question, Am I willing to become one who loves enemies as if it were the only right thing to do? If we read the teaching of Jesus in this section of the Sermon on the Mount as just another set of commandments, of impossible things we have to do to earn the title disciple or get our ticket for heaven or earn God’s approval, then we will have misunderstood them and not take them seriously. We will conveniently brand them as ...

34. Life on the Rock

Matthew 7:24-29

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James Merritt

... winner would be Jesus Christ. There is almost a universal consensus that Jesus was indeed a great, if not the greatest teacher who ever lived. That is exactly the way people who actually heard Him teach felt. Because as we come to the end of the Sermon on the Mount, we read – "And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes." (vv. 28-29) No one had ever heard teaching like the teaching of ...

35. Adultery

Matthew 5:27-30

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

36. The Sure Foundation

Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29

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Marc Kolden

... of mine" and does or does not act on them. The house (or the life) that falls is the house of persons who find Jesus' words important enough to hear but not realistic enough to live. When we remember that these words conclude all the exhortations and warnings of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7, we cannot help but feel their heavy weight. We must do the will of God or we will be cast out; we must hear Jesus' words and do them or we will fall. This does not sound like good news. Yet it is the word of ...

37. Trinity

John 3:22-36, Matthew 28:16-20, 2 Corinthians 13:11-14, 2 Corinthians 13:1-10, Exodus 34:1-28, Genesis 1:1-2:3

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John R. Brokhoff

... The place was significant. It was in Galilee, the place of his ministry. As it began and continued in Galilee, it would complete the circle to end it there. It was on a mountain where great spiritual experiences took place: Sinai, Sermon on the Mount, transfiguration, Calvary, and now the ascension. There is something about a mountain that harmonizes with a religious experience - solitude, stability, elevation. This last climb to the top of a mountain was but the beginning for the disciples who received the ...

38. Pour the Salt and Turn on the Light

Matthew 5:13-16

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James Merritt

... The Only Way to Live." The reason I have given it that title is because that is exactly what Jesus tells us in the greatest sermon ever preached in the history of the world—the Sermon on the Mount. A Chinese Christian came to a missionary one time and said, "I have learned to quote the entire Sermon on the Mount by memory." He stood before the missionary and perfectly quoted the sermon word-for-word. The missionary said, "That is wonderful. How did you do it?" The Chinese Christian said, "I spent the last ...

39. Hell under Fire

Matthew 5:22; 28-30

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James Merritt

... world view does not allow us that luxury, so I want to share with you heaven's view of hell. I. The Son Of God Affirms The Reality Of Hell Anyone who knows anything about preachers and preaching, sermonizers and sermons agree that the Sermon on the Mount is perhaps the greatest sermon ever preached. To quote just one man, Franklin Roosevelt said: I doubt if there is in the world a single problem, whether social, political, or economic, which would not find ready solution if men and nations would rule their ...

40. Training Session

Matthew 5:1-12

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... for those people who accept what I have preached and have come to believe in me." The message of this training session is almost an answer to people who ask the old question of Jesus, "What’s in it for me?" It could be said that the Sermon on the Mount is a product-oriented lesson given by Jesus. The Christian faith has benefits and blessings; it is the source of genuine joy which cannot be taken away from people by anything that might happen to them. God, we know now, has given us entrance into the ...

41. The Importance of Forgiving Others

Matthew 5:17-20

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... purpose of Jesus’ mission two thousand years ago was to bring about reconciliation between God and his people and between all people on the earth. He began his ministry by proclaiming, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near." And now, in his Sermon on the Mount, our Lord adds a warning, "For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven." One could get the impression that reconciliation with God ...

42. Israel’s Ill-Placed Confidence

Amos 5:18-27

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... of doing, not knowing (Rom. 2:13). An example of righteousness in doing is the kindness shown by the prostitute Rahab, who hid the Israelite spies (James 2:25). The NT does signal some new dimensions related to righteousness. In the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5 7), Jesus extends the requirements of righteousness to conformity to his own teaching and directives, a shocking display of authority. In his mission to call sinners rather than the “righteous” (e.g., Mark 2:17), Jesus implicitly questions the ...

43. Transfiguration

Psalm 2:1-12, Matthew 17:1-13, 2 Peter 1:12-21, Exodus 24:1-18

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... we see a strong theological bent in this narrative, as well as a rich Christology and ecclesiology, through focusing on the disciples' reverence. Matthew emphasizes other of his major concerns in this passage. (1) The mountain motif, already seen in the Sermon on the Mount and repeated at the close of the Gospel, finds special play here as Matthew agrees with Mark (against Luke) in describing the mountain as being "high." (2) The mention of "Moses and Elijah"—rather than "Elijah and Moses," in agreement ...

44. Being and Doing as the People of God

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

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Maxie Dunnam

... . Two words are important: being and doing. Our identity as the people of God involves both. To seek to separate the two is like severing a plant from its root. Various interpretations of the Sermon on the Mount illustrate this. In the early church, the requirements of the Sermon on the Mount came to be viewed as a ‘council of perfection. It soon followed that these requirements were reserved for Monastic Orders – those who had made a deliberate decision to completely separate themselves from the world ...

45. Epiphany 2

Isaiah 49:1-7, 1 Corinthians 1:1-9, John 1:29-34

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John R. Brokhoff

... John to the ministry of Jesus. Beginning with Epiphany / Ordinary Time 4, we have an in-course (verse after verse) series on the fifth chapter of Matthew, the first of three chapters constituting the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1-48). Here is a possibility for a sermon series of five messages from the Sermon on the Mount culminating in the Mount of Transfiguration (Last Sunday After The Epiphany). If the Epiphany season is short due to an early Easter, the number of sermons in the series would have to be ...

46. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

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Phil Thrailkill

... been radiated with sin and pass on the legacy at every level. Sasha’s problems are more visible; because of self-deception, ours require a bit more self-examination to uncover. It was partly to expose the truth about us that Jesus gave the central teachings of the Sermon on the Mount. In each case he refuses to stay at the level of external conformity to the law of God but pierces to the heart. “You have heard that it was said to the men of old.... But I say to you....” Then he unzips and exposes our ...

47. Blessed

Matthew 5:1-12

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Dean Feldmeyer

... to be blessed and they are all, surprisingly, similar. Almost all of them involve fame or power or wealth — or sometimes, all three. Jesus takes all of this and stands it on its head. Jesus re-defines what it means to be blessed. The “Sermon on the Mount” runs from Matthew 5-7, three chapters, which contain the teachings of Jesus. Today, most biblical scholars believe that, at the time the gospel writers were doing their writing, the Jewish war with Rome (66-70 CE) had recently ended and was much on ...

48. A Law Written On Our Hearts

Jeremiah 31:31-34

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King Duncan

... John 13:34, “Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” That is the law that is written on the Christian’s heart. However, few of us can be said to live that law out fully. R. Kent Hughes in his book The Sermon on the Mount tells a story about a woman, a friend of his wife, who committed herself to that kind of love. This woman’s family had come home from the mission field “. . . and had rented a rather nice townhouse--at least it was very nice compared to what they’d ...

49. Matthew 23:1-12

Matthew 23:1-12

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Leonard Sweet

... , Jesus urges his disciples towards a righteousness greater than that of the scribes and Pharisees. He also warns them against public pietistic posturing (see Matthew 5:20 and 6:1). But if the Sermon on the Mount at the beginning of Jesus' ministry was addressed to individuals and concerned with defining individual discipleship, there is a much more pronounced communal thrust to Jesus' message as delivered to those who have heard him, or heard about him, for some three years. Matthew's gospel is the most ...

50. Lighten Up

Matthew 5:13-16

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Mark Trotter

... give glory to your Father in heaven. Jesus had in mind changing the world. You can see that, especially in the context that comes in the fifth chapter of Matthew, the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon on the Mount is chapters five to seven in Matthew. This comes right at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. It is the twelfth verse. The first eleven verses are the Beatitudes, the summary of Jesus' teachings to us: Blessed are the humble... Blessed are the merciful... Blessed are the peacemakers... Blessed ...

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