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501. Jesus Knows Everything! Jesus Is God!

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... hidden to him but all are open and laid bare to his eyes" (Hebrews 4:13). Job confessed that "God’s eyes are upon the ways of a man and he sees all his steps" (Job 31:21). God’s knowledge of us is so perfect, Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, that he knows all our needs even before we ask him (Matthew 6:8). King David was very much aware of how personally and completely God knew him. He confessed, "O Lord, you have examined me and you know me. You know everything I do; from far away you understand ...

502. The Calling of the First Disciples

Matthew 4:18-22

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... ministry as the proclamation and enactment of God’s kingdom. After summarizing Jesus’s proclamation that the kingdom is about to arrive (4:17), Matthew turns to Jesus’s teaching about the kingdom and its relation to covenantal loyalty in the Sermon on the Mount (5:1–7:29). Then Matthew shows Jesus enacting God’s kingdom authority and mercy through his healings and other miracles with a wide range of responses to his ministry, from exceptional faith to unbelief (8:1–9:38). This section concludes ...

503. Amen

John 14:1-4

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... rest." More importantly, however, are two messages that appear to contradict each other. Often, when we gather on occasions like this, we pray to God asking that strength be given not to grieve like those who have no hope. On the other hand, Jesus taught us in his sermon on the mount: "Blessed are those who mourn (or grieve), for they shall be comforted."You feel the tension, don't you? This very sad day is a very glad day! The only way to get through it is to grieve and to sing. The only way to get through ...

504. Jerusalem: City for All Time

2 Samuel 5:1-5

Sermon

Donald Zelle

... a place; it is a prayer! Second, As a Prayer. In the early years of Mohammedanism, its people turned to Jerusalem in prayer. Only later was the direction changed to Mecca. In New Testament days people swore by Jerusalem! Though Jesus warns against that practice in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:33-37), it indicates that the people held the city in high regard as a source of power. For Christians, the chief interest in the city is that it was the center of the life of Jesus Christ. It is the scene of the ...

505. The Sixth Commandment: Respect and Reverence for Life

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... their loss. However, 500 people were murdered in the city of Philadelphia last year--1,000 in New York City--and nobody seems to care. Where is our reverence and respect for life in situations such as these? In our New Testament lesson from the Sermon on the Mount Jesus expands our understanding of this sixth commandment. He goes to the heart of the matter--the root cause. Anger is the devil''s furnace. Before we ever actually commit the act of murder, it first takes root in the heart and mind where we ...

506. The Parable of the Talents

Matthew 25:14-30

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... (vv. 14–30); and like the “goats” who do not respond to the needy, they will suffer the fate of the devil and his angels (vv. 31–46). The clear-cut distinction between the two groups reminds us of the parable with which Jesus closed his Sermon on the Mount (7:24–27, the wise man who built on rock and the foolish man who built on sand). Both the first and the last of the five discourses in Matthew end with the same emphasis. 25:14–18 Jesus provides another parable to emphasize the importance ...

507. Let the Journey Begin

Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... 's grace. May it be so for you, and for countless others of the Christian faith throughout the world. Christ's Call to Our Inner Life The guiding word for us as Lent begins is our Lord's call for inward soundness of spiritual life, taken from the Sermon on the Mount: Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. Thus, when you give alms, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the ...

508. Love Your Enemy? Are You Kidding, Lord?

Luke 6:27-38

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... they were to "love all the children of light and hate all the children of darkness."[1] You biblical scholars know that this reference in Luke's gospel is not the only place we find this instruction in the New Testament — it is also in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5 where Jesus is reported to have said, "You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" (Matthew 5:43-44). Whether Jesus was thinking ...

509. The Meaning of Life - Sermon Starter

John 17:6-19

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Brett Blair

... so it comes as no surprise that Jesus deals with this question and answers it. Surprisingly, the answer is not given in the context of an argument with the Jewish leaders or in a discussion with his disciples, and it is not given in the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus deals with so many fundamental issues. It is telling that Jesus deals with the meaning of life in the context of prayer. In the context of what has been called, by many scholars, Jesus' High Priestly Prayer. [Pause] The Disciples are in the ...

510. PASS THE SALT

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John H. Krahn

As Jesus preached his Sermon on the Mount, he turned to his disciples and said, "You are the salt of the earth." Salt, in New Testament times, was seen as something that kept the world from spoiling and becoming tasteless. "Pass the salt," Jesus said, in effect, to them. Today’s Christian should pass the salt to an ...

511. Sovereignty: God’s Domain

Zephaniah 1:4-13

Sermon

... unproductive because no wine will be consumed from them. Silver and gold will not provide deliverance. Materialism, in its myriad forms, causes humankind to forsake the God, who will not be confined, to that which we can see and touch. Our Lord, in the Sermon on the Mount, inquires, "Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?" (Matthew 6:26) Christian unity is devoted to letting the Lord have ...

512. The Christian’s Style - 1960

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... connections; all these factors are doubtless of interest and value, but they are not essential to the crucial issue, namely, authentic knowledge of his style. So if we are to know Jesus we must know his style. Once known, it cannot easily be mistaken. The Sermon on the Mount, whether it is a compilation of sayings uttered at different times and in various places, or whether it is a single address - what does it matter? It is his style. It is not Buddha’s, nor Mohammed’s, nor that of Confucius. It is the ...

513. Proper 4

Matthew 7:15-23

Bulletin Aid

Theme: Lip-service versus true service Exegetical note This selection from the Sermon on the Mount gives biblical substantiation to the dictum "deeds not words." For Jesus here contrasts those who pay lip service to God with those who actually do God's will, comparing the former to foolish builders on foundations of sand, and the latter to a wise builder who constructs on a solid ...

514. Lip-service vs. True Service

Matthew 7:21-29

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

Gospel Notes This selection from the Sermon on the Mount gives biblical substantiation to the dictum "deeds not words." For Jesus here contrasts those who pay lip service to God with those who actually do God's will, comparing the former to foolish builders on foundations of sand, and the latter to a wise builder who constructs on a solid ...

515. The Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven

Matthew 18:1-9

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... -eyed than be thrown into the fire of hell with both eyes wide open. Filson notes that “everlasting fire and fiery Gehenna both point to the everlasting consequences of moral collapse” (p. 200). Verses 8 and 9 also occur earlier in the Sermon on the Mount (cf. Matt 5:29–30). In that setting they were part of a warning against adultery. The words of Jesus are proverbial and therefore applicable in many situations. Vivid utterances like these were undoubtedly repeated by Jesus in many settings. It comes ...

516. Where Can I Go From Your Spirit?

Psalm 139:1-24

Eulogy

Barbara G. Schmitz

Music: Come, Gracious Spirit When Jesus preached his famous Sermon on the Mount, one of the things he said was, "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted." Today, as we gather together to pray, we know firsthand the promise of Christ's words. For it is natural, at such a time as this, to turn to the Holy Spirit, the ...

517. Treasures in Heaven

Matthew 6:25-34, Matthew 6:19-24

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

The remainder of the body of the Sermon on the Mount covers various topics but fleshes out to some extent the ideas introduced in the Lord’s Prayer: a call to singular loyalty to God (6:19–24) and trust for daily needs (6:27–34), a warning against judging others (7:1–6), and a call to prayer (7:7– ...

518. The Return to Nazareth

Matthew 2:19-23

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... spite of the linguistic difficulties in relating Nazōraios and Nazareth, that is obviously the connection Matthew intends to establish. Many writers have noticed Matthew’s use of the Moses motif, especially in the nativity narratives (cf. W. D. Davies, The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount, pp. 78ff.). In Exodus 4:19 God tells Moses to leave Midian and “go back to Egypt, for all the men who wanted to kill you are dead.” Matthew’s use of “those who were trying to take the child’s life” (2:20 ...

519. Epiphany 4

Matthew 5:1-12

Bulletin Aid

Theme: Bleak realities, but blessed rewards Exegetical note Matthew's location of Jesus' great Sermon on the Mount is undoubtedly meant to strike a parallel with Moses and the Old Law. Here Jesus begins with the Beatitudes, which are addressed, not to a general audience, but to those - apparently the lowliest and most oppressed of society - who have devoted themselves to the inbreaking Reign. For them, the bleak ...

520. Troubling Humbling Questions

Matthew 5:1-12

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Rabbi Harold Kushner

... Shouldn't a man's life be more than that?" I think we get that kind of feeling when we contrast the reality of our lives against character portrayed in the Beatitudes. Sometimes we want to pass by them quickly on our way to the rest of the Sermon on the Mount. We assume that Jesus was simply a Nazarene stumbling along the dusty roads of Palestine mumbling so many platitudes. But there is that haunting feeling in our gut that Jesus may be right and we just might be wrong. And that's when we need to stop and ...

521. Thanksgiving Day

Matthew 6:25-34

Bulletin Aid

Theme: God's providence and priorities Exegetical note This passage probably was not originally a part of the Sermon on the Mount, since Luke locates it elsewhere. The exhortat ion against anxiety here has two bases, the first of which is the more developed: (1) God's providence and (2) God's priorities, namely, God's Reign and righteousness. The assurance throughout is that because of these things, everything else will "fall ...

522. God's providence and priorities

Matthew 6:19-24

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

Gospel Notes This passage probably was not originally a part of the Sermon on the Mount, since Luke locates it elsewhere. The exhortation against anxiety here has two bases, the first of which is the more developed: (1) God's providence and (2) God's priorities, namely, God's Reign and righteousness. The assurance throughout is that because of these things, everything else will "fall into ...

523. Piety as Private, Not Public

Matthew 6:19-24, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:1-4

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

... here -- almsgiving, prayer, and fasting -- is also common in Jewish wisdom and rabbinic teachings, and may reflect a particular concern of the church in Matthew's day more than a burning issue for Jesus. In any case, this part of the Sermon on the Mount is an important reminder that acts of repentance are between the individual and God, and not exhibits for public consumption. Liturgical Color Black or purple Suggested Hymns Savior, When In Dust To You O Lord, Throughout These Forty Days Today Your ...

524. Blessed Are the Cheese Makers

Matthew 5:1-12

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Brett Blair

... to some pretty fantastic conclusions. And so, this is dedicated to all those knuckle headed interpretations throughout the years. There are two main characters in the bit who are called Trouble and Bignose. They are at the back of the crowd when Jesus is giving the Sermon On The Mount: Trouble: Well go and talk to him somewhere else... I can't hear a bloody thing. Bignose: Don't you swear at my wife. Trouble: I was only asking her to shut up so I could hear what he was saying, Bignose. Bignosewife: Don't ...

525. Robin Hood?

Matthew 5:33-37, Matthew 5:31-32, Matthew 5:27-30, Matthew 5:21-26, Matthew 5:17-20

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

Theme: Jesus, when He taught the kingdom truths in His Sermon on the Mount, turned the values of the world upside down. Summary: Robin Hood is questioned about his practice of stealing and decides to quit. Playing Time: 6 minutes Costumes: Legendary Props: Robin -- an apple with an arrow through it Place: Sherwood Forest Time: The time of legends Cast: ROBIN HOOD FRIAR TUCK ...

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