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126. Etched in Stone

Exodus 20:1-21

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King Duncan

... . You may or may not have strong opinions about this controversy. There are many fine people of faith on both sides. It’s interesting, though. I wonder if anyone has ever sued to have the Sermon on the Mount placed in a public building? After all, the Ten Commandments are Jewish, but the Sermon on the Mount is distinctly Christian. Interesting question. Still, the Ten Commandments fill a unique role in our culture and in our faith. They are the foundation of much of our law, and even if we don’t keep ...

127. Blessings and Woes

Luke 6:17-26

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... That some of these people had come from Tyre and Sidon may be a hint of Gentile presence. 6:20–26 Called the “Sermon on the Plain” because of the reference to the “level place” (6:17), this section parallels Matthew’s better known, and much longer, “Sermon on the Mount” (5:3–7:27; see notes below). This sermon teaches not what must be done to enter the kingdom of God, but what is expected of one who is already in the kingdom. This is seen not only in the sermon’s actual contents, in what ...

128. Matthew 6: 25-34

Matthew 6:25-34

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Leonard Sweet

... issues (mere food and clothing), because God is concerned with the “heavy” issues”—the continuation of the body and life itself. Of the eight times Matthew employs the verb “merimna” (“worry”), six of them occur in this third unit of the Sermon on the Mount (6:19-7:12). This “worry” Jesus discusses represents the exact opposite of trust or faith in God. To exhibit this worry, therefore, is essentially to demonstrate a lack of faith. To “worry” over food and clothing is to fret about ...

129. Who Counted the Fish?

John 21:1-14, John 21:15-25

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Donald B. Strobe

... at the northwest corner of the lake, which was the favorite center for Jesus’ teaching, often referred to as the “evangelical triangle.” Here Jesus conducted some 85% of his earthly ministry. Here is where (according to tradition) our Lord gave the Sermon on the Mount, spoke the Beatitudes, and performed the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes. Just south of the Mount of Beatitudes there is a small bay with a rocky protrusion, with a pleasant grove of shady trees. It is today called ...

130. The Broken

John 8:1-11

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James Merritt

... because time and time again they lied about Jesus and they even lied about what God’s word really taught. Maybe since this woman had been caught in adultery he wrote down the word “lust” reminding them of what He had already taught in the Sermon on the Mount that God says if you look at a woman with lust in your heart you’ve committed adultery. This is what I love about Jesus. While they are building their case against the woman, Jesus is building His case against them. Instead of passing judgment ...

131. A Kingdom Investment Policy

Matthew 6:19-24

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Phil Thrailkill

... Press, 2000, 262 8. PreachingToday.com search under Mt. 6:19-24. 9. The UM Hymnal, No. 467. 10. Time, April 29, 2002. 11. David Dockery & David Garland, Seeking the Kingdom (Wheaton, ILL: Shaw, 1992), 90. 12. Dale Allison, The Sermon On The Mount (New York, NY: Herder & Herder, 1999), 142-145. 13. PreachingToday.com search under Mt. 6:19-24. 14. For the history, see Vincent Carroll & David Shiflett, Christianity On Trial: Arguments Against Anti-Religious Bigotry (San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2002 ...

132. Proper 4

Genesis 6:1-8:22, Deuteronomy 11:1-32, Matthew 7:21-29, Romans 1:1-17, Romans 3:21-31

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Russell F. Anderson

... the one who builds his house on a rock. When the storms of life assail, it will not move. The foolish person is the one who fails to put the Lord's words into practice. When the storms of life come, he will be swept away. This passage completes the Sermon On The Mount. Psalm Of The Day Psalm 46 (C) -- "God is our refuge and strength" (v. 1). Psalm 31:2-4, 17, 25 (RC); Psalm 31:1-5, 19-24 (L) -- "Be a strong rock of refuge to me, a strong fortress to save me" (v. 2b). Prayer Of The Day O ...

133. Love

Romans 12:9-21

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... At first reading verse 20 suggests that the reason for doing good to enemies is to cause them severer punishment, “In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.” But considering the importance of motive in NT ethics (above all in the Sermon on the Mount, Matt. 5–7), it is quite impossible to reconcile a malicious intent with the agapē of God, who demonstrated his love by sending his Son to die for sinners (5:8). Rather, heaping burning coals on his head intends to bring shame on wrongdoers ...

134. Good Guys And Bad Guys Alike

Genesis 37:1-11, 12-36

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Steve Burt

... may be children of your Father in heaven." Then he gets crazier. "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect." What a tall order: Be perfect! The key to being perfect, as God is perfect, it would seem, is to understand that Jesus also says in his Sermon on the Mount that God "makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous." What's this? God sprinkles rain and shines sun on both the good guys and the bad guys? You mean my God, your God ...

135. Building Our Foundation on God

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

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Richard Gribble

... couch potato." When he was playing baseball for the Senators the people never saw the real Joe. Today, the Christian community throughout the world begins the discipline of Lent, and the gospel for today's service, drawn from Saint Matthew's version of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, tells us of our need to change on the inside, to demonstrate who we are, and not concentrate on what others will see. We must be transformed so that God, the one who looks into the heart and understands our every thought, word, and ...

136. Parables Discourse: Importance of Response to the Kingdom Message

Matthew 13:1-23

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... about the ways in which wealth and worry can inhibit the gospel finding a place to grow in our lives. God does not snatch the gospel away from people, but wealth and worry about daily life can do this damage. As Jesus has indicated in the Sermon on the Mount, serving God rather than money allows the believer to trust fully in God’s provision for daily life and needs (6:24–34). Illustrating the Text Jesus teaches that the kingdom has an element of hiddenness in the present time that takes eyes of faith ...

137. Beware Of Your Piety

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

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Harry N. Huxhold

... forty day period. To be sure, no one should dictate how one is to conduct pious observances. The Apostle Paul taught that one should not judge us in respect of a holy day. Our Lord taught the same. The text before us is a portion of the Sermon on the Mount. This section has to do with how our Lord's followers were to express their piety. Jesus began on the note that the believers are to express their faith in a personal fashion. Jesus began, "Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen ...

138. Faces of Failure: Peter

Matthew 26 (selections)

Sermon

Don Tuttle

... no relief there. Another servant girl—another nobody—recognizes him and says to those standing nearby: “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.” Although she doesn’t address Peter, he knows he has to respond. And even he does so with an oath. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus had told his disciples they were never to do that, but Peter does it anyway. He swears on a stack of Bibles, so to speak, that he doesn’t know Jesus. Actually, he doesn’t even use Jesus’s name. He just calls him “the ...

139. Wanting To Be Seen

Matthew 6:5-6

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David Belgum

... they have received their reward.-- Matthew 6:5 Even in prayer they want to be on center stage (theatron). Then Jesus proceeded to teach them a simple Jewish prayer. We call it the Lord's Prayer. Have you ever wondered if Jesus were contradicting himself? Earlier in this Sermon on the Mount he said this: You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under a bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way ...

140. All Saints' Sunday

Jn 11:32-44 · Mt 5:1-12 · Isa 25:6-9 · Rev 7:9-17; 21:1-6 · Ps 24

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Russell F. Anderson

... . He calls Lazarus forth from the tomb and when he appears, orders that the grave wrappings be removed. Many people believe in Jesus but John also cites this incident as the direct cause for Jesus' arrest. Gospel: Matthew 5:1-12 The Beatitudes from the Sermon On The Mount. Those who humble themselves before God are the "blessed ones," the saints of God. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION Old Testament: Isaiah 25:6-9 Don't cut the fat from the feast (v. 6). As I write this, Christmas is a few weeks away. In yesterday's ...

141. The Persecuted

John 15:18-27

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John A. Terry

... off. It is at its most alluring when it speaks the language of dynamic visual imagery. It does not accommodate complex language or stringent demands. As a consequence, what is preached on television is not anything like the Sermon on the Mount. Religious programs are filled with good cheer. "They celebrate affluence. Their players become celebrities. Though their messages are trivial, the shows have high ratings, or rather because their messages are trivial, the shows have high ratings ... Christianity is ...

142. Friends In Low Places

Matthew 9:9-13

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Marc Kolden

... to Matthew. Jesus had already called the four fishermen, Peter, Andrew, James and John, to be his disciples and he had taught them what discipleship means in the Sermon on the Mount. Not only those four heard Jesus, but huge crowds were listening to him by now and were astonished by what he said and the authority with which he said it. Between the Sermon on the Mount and our story today there is a series of episodes in which Jesus did amazing things: He healed a leper and the centurion's servant and Peter's ...

143. Uncovering Cover-Ups

John 16:5-16

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Maurice A. Fetty

... social snobs who have kept us out of their clubs or social circles. Convinced that most everyone has a character flaw covered up somewhere, we resent the thought of anyone judging us for anything. We quickly justify our feeling by quoting Jesus' famous saying in the Sermon on the Mount, "judge not lest you be judged," or again, his saying that we ought first to cast out the wooden beam in our own eye before we try to remove the sawdust from our brother's or sister's eye. The judgment referred to here is the ...

144. Lessons for Year A Epiphany 4

Micah 6:1-8, 1 Corinthians 1:18-31, Matthew 5:1-12

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John R. Brokhoff

... falls on the first part: poor in spirit, meek, hungry, etc. For the remaining Sundays of the season, the Gospels consist of the fifth chapter of Matthew. According to current scholars, the Sermon on the Mount is a collection of Jesus' teachings given over a period of time. Matthew gathered and edited them. The Sermon on the Mount is one of five collections of teachings in Matthew. It needs to be remembered that the Beatitudes are not rules for living and rewards for those who do. Rather they are the ...

145. Beyond Judgment

Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon

James L. Killen

... our world. Remember, be thankful, and take hold of the promise that God is indeed working to bring into being a new era organized around the reality of the love of God -- an era in which it will make sense to live according to the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount. The Apostle Paul also taught us to live in the light of God's new possibility. He wrote: "...you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first became believers ...

146. Prayer

Psalm 42:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... prideful self. We will talk about this more when we talk about naming ourselves and allowing God to name us, and when we consider confession as a primary ingredient of prayer. Prayer is a hunger. The first beatitude of Jesus (Matthew 5:3) in the Sermon on the Mount speaks to this issue. “Blessed are the poor in spirit” is the traditional translation of this word. “How blest are those who know their need of God” is the way the New English Bible renders it. To know our hunger, our hunger for God, is ...

147. Epiphany 8

Mt 6:24-34 · 1 Cor 4:1-13 · Is 49:8-18 · Ps 131

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... , human beings should leave the judgments to the Lord, who will bring to light the hidden purposes of the heart. One should also refrain from boasting because everything good is a gift of God. Gospel: Matthew 6:24-34 In this section of the Sermon On The Mount Jesus lifts up the necessity of single minded service of God: one cannot serve two masters. The Lord urges his listeners to trust in God completely. This would release them from anxiety about food, clothing, or shelter. If God takes care of the birds ...

148. The Silent Bible

Matthew 7:21-29

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Donald M. Tuttle

... lack even a basic knowledge of the Scriptures. The Bible remains silent—and Jesus with it. If we are to build our lives, our children's lives and our grandchildren's lives on a solid foundation, listening to Jesus is essential. There is no where better to begin than the Sermon on the Mount. As Dallas Willard has noted, in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus addresses "the guts of human existence"

149. Epiphany 7

Mt 5:38-48 · 1 Cor 3:10-11, 16-23 · Lev 19:1-2, 9-18 · Ps 119:33-40 · Ps 71 · Ps 62

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Russell F. Anderson

... human wisdom, which prides itself in possessing knowledge. We already possess everything in Christ. "For all things are yours... and you are Christ's and Christ is God's" (vv. 21, 23). Gospel: Matthew 5:38-48 In this passage and throughout the Sermon On The Mount, Jesus holds up an aggressive goodness, a righteousness that has no bounds and goes far beyond the limits of the law. The old righteousness of the law instructs that one must love the neighbor but the new righteousness of Jesus puts forward the ...

150. Final Exam

Illustration

King Duncan

... , students all over that great auditorium were stunned to see a new question. For the first time in a quarter-century, the professor decided to ask a different question. Instead of a question about Paul’s missionary journeys, there was this question: “Critique the Sermon on the Mount that was preached by Jesus.” The shock was felt across the room. And a young man got up, took his blue book - a little book that was designed to hold his essay - and threw it down on the professor’s desk. It was empty ...

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