Lead In : Last week we moved into the main body of the Sermon on the Mount. These are the “boots on the ground” instructions from Jesus, about how the people He just described in The Beatitudes, live out their day to day life. We started out last week with a truth that is going to carry us through to the end of The Sermon on the Mount, yes; but also every day we have left under the sun. Sin starts in the heart. We are not passive lumps of clay; either acting on nothing but

Let's remember where we are. When we first started in Matthew 5 , we saw the beginning of The Sermon on The Mount. We talked about how this Sermon can be seen on its surface as a universal code of ethics for humanity. How should people act in their day to day life? How should they treat one another? Look to The Sermon on The Mount. More than that though, if you remember, is that Jesus is describing how His children live and act and work and love. What is it that sets apart

In Matthew 5:17-20 , Christ said that He did not come to destroy The Law and Prophets, but to fulfill them. With such a wide ranging claim, encompassing the totality of The Old Testament, and even our life here today; we have spent the past 5 Sundays looking at everything this means. From the very beginning, we can sees that every time God gave a law in Scripture, He was revealing His own character and nature. How can we know what God is like? Look at all of the laws in the