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James Merritt
... stacks of blue books: one with all F's and then the football player's, and he had received an A+! The class could not believe it. They gathered around this football player to see what he had written, and here was his answer: "Who am I to criticize the Sermon on the Mount? What I would like to do is discuss the missionary journeys of the Apostle Paul."6 Well, I raise the same question. Who am I to "criticize" the Bible? All I am to do is to study it, believe it, and preach it as the inerrant word of God. f ...
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Will Willimon
... , live, and die in poverty, toil, suffering and early death; thus it is and ever has been. Even today, most of the world's people live where they are likely to be the victims of government rather than its beneficiaries, just like the people who heard Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. And he knew what he was talking about. Jesus knew firsthand what it's like to have friends desert you, to have spittle run down your cheek, to be dressed up by the police and mocked as a king, to be whipped, to hang there in ignominy ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... full now, for you will be hungry. "Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep. [26] "Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets. This is Luke's version of the Sermon On The Mount, commonly referred to as the Sermon On The Plain. Let's explore this passage together through the idea of "Reversal of Fortune." I. Blessed Beyond Belief A. I want to show you what I mean by this "Reversal of Fortune" through a clip from the 1998 release of ...
79. Divide and Destroy
Philippians 1:1-11
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Harold Warlick
... in any way destroying it as good milk. You hear a person proclaiming, “I believe in the ethical portions of the Bible. Give me those passages that make for justice and love of neighbor and integrity. Give me the Ten Commandments; give me the Sermon on the Mount; give me the prophets; give me the Golden Rule.” And another person proclaims just as loudly: “Give me the Evangelical. Give me John 3:16. Give me the story of the cross! Give me the precious promises of the New Testament.” It cannot be ...
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Phil Thrailkill
... Is our speech simple and honest? Are we peacemakers. Are we quick to apologize and make restitution, and do we prize unity? Do we hold grudges? Are we laying up treasures in heaven? Here is the test of a prophet for Matthew. Lay their life alongside the Sermon on the Mount, and if you cannot find increasing points of contact, don’t listen to them, even if they work miracles. Comfortable Christianity is a big, fat lie, and the reason I have repeated this line over and over is that I do not want to be found ...
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Brett Blair
... taught us. The problem so often is that we put the cart before the horse. We study his teaching and hope that they will change us. The fact is that it is Christ who changes us. And, as we are changed, we adhere to his teachings. Thus, the Sermon on the Mount is the pattern of living for those who have received Christ as Savior. With this thought in mind, I would like to focus on two standards of living as set forth by Jesus, which we call today the Beatitudes. I Jesus began by saying: Blessed are the poor ...
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Brett Blair
... taught us. The problem so often is that we put the cart before the horse. We study his teaching and hope that they will change us. The fact is that it is Christ who changes us. And, as we are changed, we adhere to his teachings. Thus, the Sermon on the Mount is the pattern of living for those who have received Christ as Savior. With this thought in mind, I would like to focus on two standards of living as set forth by Jesus, which we call today the Beatitudes. I Jesus began by saying: Blessed are the poor ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... that seriously? Most of us have a hard enough time loving our friends. I remember also that one of our finest presidents, some years ago said that “The religion of America is the Sermon on the Mount.” Would that it were so! I wondered at the time, and still wonder, whether he had read the Sermon on the Mount lately. It is not just “conventional wisdom,” but shakes the foundations of everything we believe and stand for. It goes against the grain. Light has come, but where are the followers of that ...
84. The Greater Gift
Matthew 5:1-12
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Lori Wagner
... . On the other hand, those who believe they are righteous as they follow every rule and have no affliction are chastised for their selfish, uncompassionate, and errant hearts. Jesus turns the seeking of Wisdom in proverbs into the receiving of the Kingdom in his sermon on the mount. In this sermon, God’s heart is on display, and he becomes present and active in people’s lives. Today, we need to ask ourselves in which way Jesus is speaking to us. When God still today looks upon those who are suffering ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... faith into practice, God cannot stand us. He is hurt and offended and grieved no end. He detests make-believe and artificiality. You will recall that Cain’s prayers were not heard because his heart at the time was full of hatred for his brother, Abel. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said that only the pure in heart see God. When Jesus found a fig tree that was supposed to have fruit and did not have any, he cursed it for its fruitlessness. This is a parable of what we can expect for our lack of putting ...
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Charles L. Aaron
... " to Jesus and his church. The ones Jesus doesn't recognize are the ones who cast out demons. They confronted the evil of the world and won a victory. Still, the risen Christ just can't put name to face for them. These final words of the Sermon on the Mount warn us about our lack of faith, and about the ways we deceive ourselves about our faith. The sermon has been calling us to a deeper faith. It has been calling us to genuine prayer, to sacrificial giving, to radical love, to tamed impulses. It calls us ...
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J. Howard Olds
... we concluded last week that it boils down to loving God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength and our neighbor as ourselves. This is the great commandment, said Jesus. Then eliminating our need to debate the nature of neighborliness Jesus goes one step further in the Sermon on the Mount and says, “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." Unless we wonder who our neighbor might be, Jesus uses the ...
88. Second Lesson
Matthew 5:13-16
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... the Beatitudes through the next two and a half chapters of Matthew’s Gospel, we seem to have fragments from Jesus’ three-year teaching ministry that are strung together in didactic disarray. One wonders, since neither Mark nor John reports anything like the Sermon on the Mount, and although Luke does have a parallel to it in his sermon on the plain, if Jesus actually gave all of this material at one sitting. Could this simply be various of his sayings strung together for Matthew’s readers? Most of the ...
89. Matthew 5:13-20
Matthew 5:13-16
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... the virtues of the poor in spirit, the mournful, the meek, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, the persecuted. But the list of those who will receive God’s blessing at the coming of the kingdom is not the central message of Jesus’ “Sermon on the Mount.” What this “sermon” was most focused on was revealing that Jesus did not come to “abolish the law or the prophets,” but rather that he came “to fulfill” them (Matthew 5:17). As Jesus begins his public ministry he challenges God’s people ...
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David T. Ball
... don't go to church because they've had it with all the hypocrites have been influenced by today's scripture passage from the Gospel of Matthew. As well they should -- this passage is to be found right about in the middle of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. The passage presents a very clear, unmistakable message against hypocrisy. To paraphrase Jesus' words, he says that hypocrites go to church to "see and be seen," and that they draw attention to themselves when they pray. Instead, Jesus says, we should pray in ...
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Louis H. Valbracht
... talents and its creativity are not despised, they are dedicated. The gospel is real. The Word was made flesh, dwelling among us. Christ speaks with the authority of realism. You say the Sermon on the Mount, Luke's version of which is in our Gospel for the day, for instance, is idealistic? This is what someone said to me recently - that the Sermon on the Mount was such a high ideal that no one could anticipate or expect reaching it. It was nice. We could shoot at it, but it wasn't really that real. The ideas ...
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King Duncan
... the Mensa members learned something about the worth of common sense that day . . . from a café waitress. Let’s talk about saltshakers for a few moments today. Jesus described his followers as the salt of the earth in Matthew 5:13 as part of the Sermon on the Mount: “You are the salt of the earth,” he said. “But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.” In Matthew’s Gospel, these words ...
93. Proper 26
Psalm 119:137-144, Isaiah 1:10-18, Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4, Luke 19:1-10, 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12
Bulletin Aid
Julia Ross Strope
... path. Amen. Sermon Idea Civilizations rise and fall; vital and fierce leaders come and go. We say we are God’s people because we believe that Jesus lived, taught, and died so we might live. We keep on teaching the Golden Rule and the Sermon on the Mount but human greed and violence don’t go away. Old Testament prophet Habakkuk articulates our current questions: * How long must we call for help before God takes some action? * How can God endure the violence and destruction? * Why is it that evil gets the ...
94. Torn Curtain
Luke 23:44-49, Luke 23:26-43
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King Duncan
Imagine you are directing a movie. It’s a controversial movie about the life of Christ. And suddenly, during the Sermon on the Mount, your lead actor, who plays Jesus, is struck by lightning. Someone sees fire on the left side of his head and light all around his body. Smoke is seen coming out of his ears. Cast members are screaming. Wouldn’t you think, if you were the actor playing Jesus that, ...
Sermon
... of personal tragedy is like Job in the Old Testament; or how twelve people gathering for Sunday school at 8:00 in the morning is like a crowd of people gathering on a mount in Palestine to learn more about their faith as in the Sermon on the Mount; or how a congregation giving 20 percent of its income to benevolence relates to the Philippians’ support of Paul’s ministry as described in our second lesson. Preparing the way of the Lord is not being Gene Hickerson, running over people, telling them what ...
96. When We Mourn
Matthew 5:1-12
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Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... talks that Jesus had with that little band of twelve? In our Gospel for this All Saints’ Sunday, we have what are called "Beatitudes" from the Sermon on the Mount. Matthew has a habit of collecting together all the sayings of Jesus on a particular subject and putting them together in his Gospel. Most scholars agree that this sermon on the mount is Matthew’s collection and distillation and summary of Jesus’ consistent teaching to his disciples. He taught them many things many different times, and today ...
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Charles L. Aaron
... . Even if we know we will get something better in the long run, we don't like waiting. We don't even like to wait for our blessings from God. We want them now. Jesus offers blessings in the opening lines of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus has been traveling throughout Galilee preaching, teaching, and healing. Jesus' ministry manifests the realization of his proclamation that the dominion of heaven has come near (Matthew 4:17). Matthew refers to the dominion of heaven, rather than the dominion of God — as ...
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Leonard Sweet
... being in the doldrums. What’s worse is being in the soulpits. In today’s Scripture lesson Jesus faced that fear and knocked the soulpits aside with his comforting, and challenging, comments. In this less featured component of the “Sermon on the Mount,” Jesus looked at the same world that strikes worriers as a cold, uncaring, capricious place. But instead of finding desolation and defection, Jesus sees evidence everywhere of an attentive, involved, compassionate Creator – a true “Father in heaven ...
99. THE AGE OF ANXIETY
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John H. Krahn
... out. Sometimes we feel that these days we have to take the bad with the worst. Much of the time we feel apprehensive about the future. Feeling uneasy, we sometimes wonder what impending ill will befall us next. In the light of many troubles, the Sermon on the Mount seems to be a tough saying from Jesus. It states that if our minds were set on God, we would not lack the needful things of this earth. When we are anxious over daily concerns, it often has a paralyzing effect on our religious life. Worrying ...
100. Called to Bigness
Isaiah 58:1-12, Matthew 5:13-20
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James L. Killen
... those who sit in darkness. (Isaiah 42:6-7) This is the heritage that Jesus came to bring to fulfillment. It is not hard to see how Jesus and the members of the early church worked at bringing this fulfillment. In the rest of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught us how to live in a life-shaping relationship with the living God that will exceed the vitality of the righteousness of the most pious Pharisees. And Paul was constantly writing to the early churches, urging them to commit themselves to building up ...
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