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· Lesson 1
· The Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5-7
· Introduction and Overview
· */The Sermon on the Mount isn’t something we apply or something we do – it is more accurately a description of what we are” /*
· /D.
Martin Lloyd-Jones/
*/ /*
· */“The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.” /*/Oswald Chambers/
· *Why was the Sermon on the Mount given?*
Matthew 4:18-22
18 And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
20 And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.
21 And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, …
25 And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.
— 4:19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men
— 4:25 And there followed Him great multitudes of people…
— New followers, new converts who had been steeped in Jewish legal tradition
— Their understanding of this “new gospel” was non-existent or superficial at best
— Jesus instructed them in view of His announcement of the coming kingdom
Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, *Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.*
— Natural questions on the heart of every Jew would have been:
— What is this kingdom?
— “Am I eligible to enter Messiah’s kingdom?
— Am I righteous enough?
— The only standard of righteousness the people knew was that laid down by the current religious leaders, the scribes and Pharisees.
— Would one who followed that standard be acceptable in Messiah’s kingdom?
— Jesus’ sermon must be understood in the context of His offer of the kingdom to Israel and the need for repentance to enter that kingdom.
— The sermon did not give a “Constitution” for the kingdom nor did it present the way of salvation.
— /The sermon showed :/
— /In the Beatitudes ( Matthew 5:3-12) the attributes of a believer/
— /In Matthew 5: 13 – 7:29 how a person who is in right relationship with God would conduct their life./
— Jesus began His sermon with “the Beatitudes,” statements beginning with *Blessed are.*
— “Blessed” means “happy” or “fortunate”
— The qualities Jesus mentioned in this list, “the poor in spirit,” “those who mourn,” “the meek,” could not be products of Pharisaic righteousness.
— These come only when one is properly related to God through faith, when one places his complete trust in God.
— Is the Sermon on the Mount relevant today?
— Is the understanding of the Gospel superficial in our society and our churches today?
— In 1959 D. Martin Lloyd-Jones in Studies in the Sermon on the Mount stated “I do not think it is a harsh judgment to say that the most obvious feature of the life of the Christian Church today is, alas, its superficiality.”
— What is the underlying cause of this superficiality?
— Our attitude toward the scriptures – they are our only source of authority - we know nothing about God and the Christian life apart from the Bible - Merely reading the Bible is not enough – that is superficial and mechanical
— Our approach to the Scriptures is vital – do we meditate on what we read?
Does it change our way of thinking and acting?
Does it change who and what we are?
— The Sermon on the Mount was given to teach us what it means to be a Believer.
It describes what a believer is and what we do because of what we are.
— We are taught in Matthew 5:3-12 what we are
— We are taught in Matthew 5:13-7:29 what we are to do
Matthew 5:17-20 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
— But that sounds pretty legalistic, aren’t we under grace?
— YES – But grace doesn’t remove the requirement placed on us to be obedient
— Luke 6:46 *And why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?*
— Following the Scriptures is not “legalism” - it is obedience!
— No man can live the Sermon on the Mount in and of himself, unaided so God sent a Comforter, the Holy Spirit as our Guide
— There is no teaching in the Sermon on the Mount that is not also found in various New Testament books
— Lesson 2
— */The Sermon on the Mount \\ /**/Matthew 5-7/*
*/The Sermon on the Mount isn’t something we apply or something we do – it is more accurately a description of what we are” /*
*/ /*/D.
Martin Lloyd-Jones/
— *General Outline of The Sermon on the Mount*
— Chapter 5
— Matthew 5:3-10 The Character of the Christian is described before we get to conduct
— Matthew 5:11,12 Character is proven by the worlds reaction
— We see in verses 3-10 the kind of person we are and in 11-12 we see what happens to him
— Verse 13-16 outlines our role in the world
— Verses 17-48 we have the Christian facing the law of God and its demands
— Chapter 6 focuses on the Christian living their life in the presence of God and in active submission to and dependence on Him
— Chapter 7 is a general account of the Christian who lives and keeps the law of God
— *Matthew 5:1-2*
1 And seeing the multitudes, He went up into a mountain: and when He was set, His disciples came unto Him:
• And He opened His mouth, and taught them, saying,
*Matthew 7:28-29*
• And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at His doctrine:
• For He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
— *The Beatitudes*
— The basis for the Sermon on the Mount is the Beatitudes
— They were presented first, deliberately, because there is a logical progression from the first to the last – from getting saved to spiritual maturity
— We need to learn what we are to be so that we can seek and allow the Holy Spirit to work in our lives to mold and make us into a people who are known by these attributes.
— The Beatitudes are attributes or characteristics of the Christian – they are not something we do but something we are.
— *Blessed - happy*
— Happiness is sought by the world – Man seeks after anything to make us happy
— True happiness is defined by the Beatitudes
— Jesus says “Blessed are…” or “truly happy are…”
— *General Principles*
• All Christians are to be like this – all Christians are meant to exemplify everything that is contained in the Beatitudes
• None of these are gained naturally – they are only produced by the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives
• These define the difference between the Christian and the non-Christian
— The glory of the gospel is that when the Church is absolutely different from the world she invariably attracts it
— *Christian versus the non-Christian*
— *The Christian’s desire is to be like Christ – the more we are like Him the less we are like the world*
— *We are different in what we admire*
— Christian admires the “poor in spirit, the meek, the thirsty, the peacemaker…”
— The world makes heroes out of the strong, the proud, the rich
— *We are different in what we seek*
— Christians hunger and thirst after righteousness – being right with God
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