1 00:00:00,700 --> 00:00:03,000 It is certainly wonderful to be here with all of you. 2 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:06,500 I've enjoyed so far worshipping together. 3 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:10,500 And all of you that are here, we say welcome and I hope and pray 4 00:00:10,500 --> 00:00:12,900 that what we have to consider for a little while this morning 5 00:00:12,900 --> 00:00:17,000 would be edifying, do you and very encouraging to you from the 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,100 scriptures? Today, I'm going to start a 7 00:00:20,100 --> 00:00:22,200 series that will take us quite some time. 8 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:26,600 I'm going to start a series on the great Sermon on the Mount. 9 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:31,100 It was in fact and indeed the greatest sermon ever preached 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,300 You know that phrase? I just said the greatest sermon 11 00:00:34,300 --> 00:00:35,900 ever preached. I was reminded of something. 12 00:00:35,900 --> 00:00:40,300 My mother may remember this my mother and father were baptized 13 00:00:40,300 --> 00:00:44,100 into Jesus Christ in 1973. And I don't know how many years 14 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:46,900 after that that this event happened. 15 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,900 But my father was asked at the last minute to give a lesson, 16 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:55,000 and I remember as a little boy, what in the world is my dad 17 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,500 going to teach on? My father got up in the pulpit 18 00:00:58,500 --> 00:01:02,100 and his introduction, and this is what he said, he said today, 19 00:01:02,300 --> 00:01:05,300 you're going to hear the greatest sermon you have ever 20 00:01:05,300 --> 00:01:08,900 heard. and I remember as a little boy, sitting there 21 00:01:08,900 --> 00:01:15,600 thinking man what you're going to say next, And my father, read 22 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:23,200 The Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5, 6 and 7, I remember it. 23 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,900 Took him about 20 minutes and I got to thinking about that. 24 00:01:25,900 --> 00:01:29,100 Some of you have heard me say this before some of you have 25 00:01:29,100 --> 00:01:34,000 not, I'm going to say it again. The greatest man that ever lived 26 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,700 who was the greatest preacher, the world ever knew preach the 27 00:01:37,700 --> 00:01:41,800 greatest sermon ever preached in 20 minutes. 28 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:47,200 Sometimes we as preachers and teachers of the Gospel think 29 00:01:47,700 --> 00:01:52,000 that in order to really exhaust a subject or edify on a subject 30 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000 or really get to the meat of the subject, we got to talk for a 31 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,900 really long time. Jesus, the master preach, the 32 00:01:58,900 --> 00:02:01,400 greatest sermon ever preached. And by the way, I'll just say 33 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:05,500 this in The Sermon, on the Mount, it is the richest deepest 34 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:10,100 Medias, things, ever taught, and the Lord, did it in 20 minutes 35 00:02:10,900 --> 00:02:12,300 thought that was rather interesting. 36 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,200 You know, I was given some great advice as a preacher as a young 37 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,000 man and as I got older, I've been given a lot of advice as a 38 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,300 preacher. Seems like a lot of people want 39 00:02:20,300 --> 00:02:24,200 to give people advice and some advice was really great and some 40 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,600 advice was not so great but I'm going to tell you one of the 41 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:28,300 greatest Things of the best advice. 42 00:02:28,300 --> 00:02:31,400 I was given as a preacher. I wish it was given to me 43 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,600 earlier on, it was given to me later on, but I want to tell 44 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:38,300 you, I don't always accomplish this, but I always try and this 45 00:02:38,300 --> 00:02:40,300 is what this man said to me. Very good friend of mine. 46 00:02:40,300 --> 00:02:43,700 He said, Frank, if you really want to maximize your 47 00:02:43,900 --> 00:02:48,300 Effectiveness as a speaker, then learn to say more. 48 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:53,700 With less words. And that's what the master did. 49 00:02:54,500 --> 00:03:01,700 That is what Jesus did. He said more with less words, 50 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:03,600 let's begin as an introductory text. 51 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:05,900 Please in Matthew 5, verses 1 and 2. 52 00:03:06,100 --> 00:03:10,400 And by the way, this sermon here is just an introduction to The 53 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,300 Sermon on the Mount. We're going to get into what he 54 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:15,300 preached later on in other sermons. 55 00:03:15,500 --> 00:03:18,600 This is just an introduction. Matthew Chapter 5, beginning in 56 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:22,300 verse 1, And seeing the multitudes he went up on a 57 00:03:22,300 --> 00:03:27,300 mountain and when he was seated, his disciples came to him, then 58 00:03:27,300 --> 00:03:30,400 he opened his mouth and taught them saying. 59 00:03:31,100 --> 00:03:34,200 The things that Jesus said after that were nothing, short of 60 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,900 masterful, he was indeed the greatest. 61 00:03:36,900 --> 00:03:38,800 Okay. So the Sermon on the Mount is 62 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,400 Matthew, 5, 6 and 7, let's back up the first four chapters of 63 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,000 the Book of Matthew successfully, portrayed, Jesus 64 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,500 Christ as the Messiah, and number, To they demonstrate the 65 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:55,900 Dual nature of his mission that's found in chapters 1 66 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,200 through 4. What was the Dual nature of the 67 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:02,100 Lord's mission number one to fulfill the Old Law of Moses. 68 00:04:02,100 --> 00:04:04,100 We're going to get to what that means in just a moment. 69 00:04:04,100 --> 00:04:07,500 But that's number one. He came to fulfill the Old Law 70 00:04:07,500 --> 00:04:11,400 of Moses. Number two, he came to establish 71 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:16,399 the new law of Jesus Christ. His law that we are under today, 72 00:04:16,500 --> 00:04:19,399 but let's talk about the Old Law of Moses, for just a moment. 73 00:04:19,500 --> 00:04:23,100 And The fulfilling of the Old Law in the Old Law of Moses in 74 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:26,800 Matthew Chapter 5 and verses 17 and 18. 75 00:04:28,100 --> 00:04:31,800 This is what Jesus said, he said, do not think that I came 76 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,900 to destroy the law or the prophets. 77 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:40,900 I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill, he said not one jot 78 00:04:40,900 --> 00:04:44,700 or one Tittle will by no means pass from the law until all be 79 00:04:44,700 --> 00:04:46,600 fulfilled. What Jesus was saying, here in 80 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,700 this passage, he said I didn't come to destroy. 81 00:04:49,900 --> 00:04:53,600 The law or the prophets, I came to fulfill the law or the 82 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,800 prophets one of the Dual Natures of his mission. 83 00:04:56,900 --> 00:05:01,600 Ok now what he's saying is this, whatever this means we'll get to 84 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:06,500 this in just a moment not even a jot or tittle will pass from the 85 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:10,200 Old Law until all things are fulfilled. 86 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:14,900 So what in the world is a jot? And what in the world is a 87 00:05:14,900 --> 00:05:19,600 tittle the word jot, by the way, is a word that actually means to 88 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:22,900 Describe the smallest letter of the alphabet. 89 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,600 Now, I don't usually do this. I usually just tell you, for 90 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,300 example, something comes from the word in the original and 91 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:34,000 I'll tell you what it means, but I don't usually pronounce the 92 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,300 Greek words anymore. I used to get to the meaning of 93 00:05:36,300 --> 00:05:39,100 it, but I got to use this name and I got to say the name. 94 00:05:39,300 --> 00:05:41,100 I got to say, with the Greek word is, you know why? 95 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,100 Because you and I know exactly what that is. 96 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,700 Especially the old timers like my father, it's the word iota. 97 00:05:50,300 --> 00:05:52,100 Ever hear the word IO dinner sentence. 98 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:56,100 My dad used to say we didn't accomplish anything though. 99 00:05:56,100 --> 00:05:59,300 No, you didn't accomplish anything today, Frank. 100 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:06,700 Not one iota, meaning. Not the least little bit. 101 00:06:08,300 --> 00:06:12,200 What is Jesus saying here? Not the least little bit of the 102 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:18,000 Old Law will pass away until all things are fulfilled. 103 00:06:18,100 --> 00:06:20,400 That's number one, that's called a jot. 104 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:24,100 What's a tittle? A tittle comes from the Greek 105 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:26,600 word literally, meaning little horn. 106 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:29,100 Okay. And it's the smallest brush of a 107 00:06:29,100 --> 00:06:30,900 pen stroke. What's that mean? 108 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,300 All right. In the English, alphabet, we 109 00:06:34,300 --> 00:06:37,700 need to have a little horn. We need to have a tittle to 110 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:41,100 Penguins between two very similar letters. 111 00:06:41,300 --> 00:06:44,300 I'm going to give you an example to similar letters in the 112 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:45,900 English alphabet. You know, what, we need to 113 00:06:45,900 --> 00:06:48,200 distinguish between the two. We need a tittle here. 114 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:53,200 It is the capital letter C and the capital letter G, they look 115 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,900 the same, but in order to distinguish between the two, we 116 00:06:56,900 --> 00:06:58,500 need this little Tunnel right there. 117 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:00,200 We need the little horn right there. 118 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,100 We had the tiny little pen stroke. 119 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:07,100 What's Jesus saying he's living under the Old Law of Moses, he's 120 00:07:07,100 --> 00:07:09,700 preaching this sermon. Even during the Old Law of Moses 121 00:07:09,700 --> 00:07:13,800 and he's saying, not even the smallest letter of the alphabet 122 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,600 or even the smallest. Pen stroke would change from the 123 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:22,700 Old Law until when until all things are fulfilled. 124 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:25,800 All right? What are you talking about about 125 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:30,200 all things being fulfilled? First of all, all things are 126 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,600 fulfilled when his Earthly Ministry or his Earthly mission 127 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:38,000 is completed. and by the way, that ends in his death, on the 128 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:43,700 cross in Colossians chapter 2 and verse 14, Having wiped out 129 00:07:43,700 --> 00:07:46,000 the handwriting of requirements. Get this. 130 00:07:46,700 --> 00:07:48,700 That was against us. What's that? 131 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:52,600 That's the old law of Moses. But did you get the first part 132 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:57,700 in that great having wiped out, the handwriting of requirements 133 00:07:57,700 --> 00:08:01,000 that was against us, which was contrary to us? 134 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,900 All of that was the old law of Moses and he has taken it out of 135 00:08:04,907 --> 00:08:06,800 the way. What did he do? 136 00:08:06,900 --> 00:08:11,000 He nailed it to his cross. Now, guess what? 137 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:18,100 Now, all things are fulfilled. So in Matthew 5, 6 and 7, Jesus 138 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:21,800 preaches, his greatest sermon and he gives us a new system of 139 00:08:21,900 --> 00:08:25,600 law in The Sermon, on the Mount. He lays the groundwork for his 140 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:29,300 subsequent Ministry, and development at the church by 141 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:32,000 depicting the nature of the kingdom and its subject. 142 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,200 And that's very important because guess what we are in the 143 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:36,799 Kingdom, more of that in a minute. 144 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,299 And we are the subjects. So we got to really listen to 145 00:08:40,299 --> 00:08:44,100 what he's got to say. Here's stop to consider that 146 00:08:44,100 --> 00:08:45,700 Jewish people back in those days. 147 00:08:45,700 --> 00:08:48,500 Really believed in and wanted a messiah. 148 00:08:49,700 --> 00:08:53,100 They really wanted a messiah. The problem with the Jewish 149 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:56,700 people that lived in the days of Jesus, is they misunderstood 150 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:01,800 grossly, misunderstood the nature of the Messianic Kingdom, 151 00:09:02,700 --> 00:09:06,500 they thought that Jesus was coming to relieve them or save 152 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:08,600 them from the oppressive thumb of Rome. 153 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:12,900 In other words, Roman occupation in Palestine and they thought 154 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:15,800 that the Messiah was going to come and remove that by 155 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:19,300 establishing a political Kingdom, an Earthly Kingdom. 156 00:09:19,500 --> 00:09:24,700 Rain on an Earthly throne and finally Rome would no longer 157 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:26,500 oppress them. That's what they thought. 158 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:29,800 And by the way, let's back up, you might remember years ago 159 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:33,500 when I talk there, sermon on the triumphal entry into Jerusalem, 160 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,100 I'll be very brief about this, but I got to make this point. 161 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:39,400 He rides in on the back of a Colt of a donkey. 162 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:41,000 Do you remember what the people said? 163 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,000 They said, Hosanna to the highest. 164 00:09:44,700 --> 00:09:47,900 If you look up the word hosanna in an English dictionary, it 165 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:51,900 will say something like this. A form of praise and 166 00:09:51,900 --> 00:09:55,400 recognition. So sometimes we hear the word 167 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:59,800 Hosanna and we think he was just being praised in that passage 168 00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:02,800 not so fast. The word Hosanna. 169 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,800 There comes from the Hebrew word hoshea nod, you know what it 170 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,600 means? Save us. 171 00:10:09,100 --> 00:10:12,700 Save us. They thought that Jesus was 172 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:16,200 going to come in and save them from Rome, but Jesus came to be 173 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:17,900 our Messiah to save us from hell. 174 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,900 I think I like what he did best. Who cares about oppression? 175 00:10:26,100 --> 00:10:31,000 He came to save our soul. The Sermon on the Mount reveals 176 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,800 the true type of his kingdom that he came to establish by 177 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:39,000 focusing on spiritual issues. He gave spiritual principles 178 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,000 that demonstrates that he wants to rain. 179 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,900 Get this please, he wants to rein in the human heart. 180 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,400 That's what Jesus wants. He wants to rein in your heart, 181 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:53,100 he wants to be the motivating factor in everything you do. 182 00:10:53,100 --> 00:10:55,600 He's not going to rain on an Earthly Throne. 183 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,200 He wants to rein in your heart and change your life. 184 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,400 I got to tell you something, we need to spend time trying to 185 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:08,700 bring people to Jesus. Jesus, as the Messiah Jesus as 186 00:11:08,700 --> 00:11:11,300 the savior. Because if people would be 187 00:11:11,300 --> 00:11:15,100 converted to Jesus and truly have Jesus raining in their 188 00:11:15,100 --> 00:11:18,500 hearts, don't you see that? Everything else falls into place 189 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:24,400 automatically? It's about being converted to 190 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,100 Jesus. That's what he wants. 191 00:11:28,900 --> 00:11:32,700 He wants to rein in your heart and not an Earthly throne and by 192 00:11:32,700 --> 00:11:34,600 the way, it was never going to be an Earthly Throne. 193 00:11:34,700 --> 00:11:38,300 He made this point, very clear to Pilot Jesus said this before, 194 00:11:38,300 --> 00:11:41,500 pilot before he was crucified. He said, my kingdom is not of 195 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:43,500 this world. If my kingdom were of this 196 00:11:43,500 --> 00:11:47,200 world, my servants would fight so that I should not be 197 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:51,500 delivered to the Jews but now my kingdom is not from here. 198 00:11:51,500 --> 00:11:54,900 Okay. Now, the Jews believe in Jesus 199 00:11:54,900 --> 00:11:56,800 day, there were very fond of the Old Law. 200 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,800 We know that Here was the problem. 201 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,100 The religious leaders misapplied. 202 00:12:02,100 --> 00:12:09,200 It And they corrupted it. With their human Traditions. 203 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,800 Okay. What am I talking about human 204 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,300 Traditions? First of all, let's go to 205 00:12:15,300 --> 00:12:19,500 Matthew 15 and 3 he answered and said to them, why do you also 206 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:22,700 transgress the Commandment of God because of your tradition? 207 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:25,400 I got to say is I don't have time to go into Matthew 15. 208 00:12:25,500 --> 00:12:30,200 I'm just gonna say this quickly, the context of Matthew 15 and 209 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:33,600 the context of what Jesus is saying here is very simple. 210 00:12:33,700 --> 00:12:37,400 He's talking about the tradition, the Tradition of the 211 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,900 elders about hand washing. Okay. 212 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:43,400 Now, is there anything wrong with hand-washing? 213 00:12:43,500 --> 00:12:47,300 Absolutely not for cleanliness purposes. 214 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:51,000 Absolutely not. In fact, I don't want people 215 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,200 touching my stuff for my food without washing their hands. 216 00:12:54,300 --> 00:12:57,100 We all know that washing your hands is a good thing. 217 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,400 So what's he talking about Jesus says you transgress the 218 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:03,800 Commandment of God because of your tradition. 219 00:13:03,900 --> 00:13:06,200 They were taking the tradition of hand-washing. 220 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,600 Not for cleanliness purposes, they were doing it for Ceremony 221 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,800 purposes because they believed it was an act of piety. 222 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:20,800 It was an act of being holy and that became a human tradition. 223 00:13:22,500 --> 00:13:24,700 Now human Traditions, please stay with me. 224 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:31,000 Human Traditions are not wrong in themself But when a human 225 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,900 tradition causes us to transgress the Commandment of 226 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:38,200 God, now we got a problem. That's what they were doing. 227 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,400 The Lord's point to the Pharisees was this, they had a 228 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,800 willingness to violate the law of God because of those human 229 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,000 Traditions. I want to make a few points 230 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,400 about tradition. Okay. 231 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:55,400 First of all, there is Apostolic tradition this episode 232 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,100 tradition. By the way, passed down by the 233 00:13:58,100 --> 00:14:01,000 apostles written, in the word of God in the New Testament. 234 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:06,900 Okay, Apostolic tradition is binding and we must bind it and 235 00:14:06,900 --> 00:14:09,900 we can't deviate from it. In other words, it Speak with 236 00:14:09,900 --> 00:14:11,500 the Bible. Speaks beside it with a Bible 237 00:14:11,500 --> 00:14:14,200 silent. We stick to Apostolic tradition 238 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,200 by the word of God. That is a binding tradition. 239 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:21,100 Okay. There are other human Traditions 240 00:14:21,100 --> 00:14:25,300 though that are acceptable, but can't be binding. 241 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:29,000 And may I just say this to it is just as wrong to bind with the 242 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,600 Lord is not bound, as it is too loose with the Lord, has not 243 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,400 loosed. Here's my question. 244 00:14:34,700 --> 00:14:39,500 What are human Traditions? One fast example in my house a 245 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:44,000 And tradition is Thanksgiving and we do the same thing every 246 00:14:44,100 --> 00:14:46,700 every year at Thanksgiving. I'm so thankful for Tina being 247 00:14:46,700 --> 00:14:50,000 such a great hostess. Everybody comes over, we eat 248 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,100 around a time of a certain football game where we cheer for 249 00:14:53,100 --> 00:14:56,000 a certain football team and hope that team doesn't lose that day 250 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:00,800 tradition. Human tradition. 251 00:15:01,900 --> 00:15:06,200 No problem. But are there human traditions 252 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,900 in the church? Yes. 253 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:13,500 Give you an example. Are they wrong? 254 00:15:14,300 --> 00:15:19,300 No, let me show you what I mean. if a human tradition is an 255 00:15:19,300 --> 00:15:24,000 expedient, Which expedites the process of what's been 256 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,000 commanded? No problem. 257 00:15:26,700 --> 00:15:30,000 For example, in the scriptures, we are told to sing, we are 258 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,300 commanded to sing. We are commanded to sing with 259 00:15:32,300 --> 00:15:35,100 the melody in our hearts to the Lord, okay? 260 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:39,300 So what we do to expedite that process is we have what we call 261 00:15:39,300 --> 00:15:41,600 a songbook, what do we need to say? 262 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,500 We need two things, right? We need notes and we need to 263 00:15:44,500 --> 00:15:49,100 know what is the song book. It is a book filled with words. 264 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,100 Treasury notes in tune. I mean words and to we need 265 00:15:53,100 --> 00:15:56,100 those two things words and tune, okay? 266 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:01,400 A songbook expedite that process traditionally, we have a song 267 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:05,400 book that includes words and to me, that's a tradition. 268 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:11,100 In the Philippines. They have her songbook, it has 269 00:16:11,100 --> 00:16:13,600 words but they don't have a tune. 270 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,000 You know why? They don't write the music. 271 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,100 What they have is words and they already know the tune. 272 00:16:18,100 --> 00:16:21,200 So they sing the tune because they know the tune and sing the 273 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,900 words. Same thing that's their 274 00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:25,800 tradition. No problem. 275 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:30,700 Give another example. We are commanded to teach from 276 00:16:30,700 --> 00:16:32,900 the word of God when we Assemble. 277 00:16:34,500 --> 00:16:37,700 And you may remember some of this remember the old timers 278 00:16:37,700 --> 00:16:41,600 that use bedsheets? The old-time preachers, boy, 279 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,400 they put that bedsheet up there and maybe it would have 280 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:47,900 scriptures on there. Maybe an outline on there may be 281 00:16:47,900 --> 00:16:51,500 a diagram of the Tabernacle and maybe a preacher would stand 282 00:16:51,500 --> 00:16:55,300 there with a long stick, a pointer and he would point to 283 00:16:55,300 --> 00:16:57,800 various aspects of the Tabernacle he would say, look 284 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,500 over here. This is this, and over there. 285 00:16:59,500 --> 00:17:03,700 That's is that. Anyone with that know it is an 286 00:17:03,700 --> 00:17:07,300 expedient that expedites the Commandment to teach. 287 00:17:07,700 --> 00:17:10,200 It doesn't add anything, it doesn't subtract from anything, 288 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:15,700 it doesn't corrupt anything. So traditionally preachers would 289 00:17:15,700 --> 00:17:18,400 use a bedsheet, guess what? We no longer have that 290 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,500 tradition. Another tradition came in human 291 00:17:22,500 --> 00:17:25,099 tradition. That expedited the process, it 292 00:17:25,099 --> 00:17:28,000 was called a chalkboard. Remember those? 293 00:17:28,300 --> 00:17:29,900 We don't have one now. We had a whiteboard on the other 294 00:17:29,900 --> 00:17:33,900 side of this, though, by the way, chalkboard, and people 295 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:36,600 would write on the chalkboard and that would expedite the 296 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,600 process, it would give a visual aid, it didn't add anything, 297 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:41,900 didn't subtract from anything. You didn't corrupt anything 298 00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:47,000 Human tradition. I remember we got a white board 299 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,200 here. You know what my father-in-law 300 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:53,300 had amazing penmanship. And he said, one day, I hate the 301 00:17:53,300 --> 00:17:57,200 Whiteboard. I said why Darrell he said? 302 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,200 Because I can write better with chalk. 303 00:18:00,100 --> 00:18:03,700 That was his preference. Either one was perfectly fine, 304 00:18:03,900 --> 00:18:07,500 it didn't matter, they were both expedience, Expediting the 305 00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:11,800 process by tradition. You might find a chalkboard or a 306 00:18:11,808 --> 00:18:16,100 whiteboard in a church building, which leads me to this 307 00:18:16,100 --> 00:18:18,900 tradition. PowerPoint. 308 00:18:20,300 --> 00:18:22,200 Now, you know a person may not like PowerPoint. 309 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,100 But it doesn't add to anything. It doesn't subtract from 310 00:18:26,100 --> 00:18:27,600 anything. It doesn't correct anything. 311 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,600 It's a tradition. Now, that many places have 312 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,300 PowerPoint. The same thing, human, 313 00:18:34,300 --> 00:18:36,400 Traditions. That don't violate the 314 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,800 Commandments of God, okay? Really quickly, what then would 315 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:43,500 be a human tradition that we could bring into the church. 316 00:18:43,700 --> 00:18:45,800 That would violate the Commandment of God, it would be 317 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,100 anything that would change what's been authorized? 318 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,200 And that's why we in the Church of Christ, don't have 319 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:54,900 instruments of music, because we've been commanded to sing and 320 00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:56,900 sing with the melody in our hearts to the Lord. 321 00:18:56,900 --> 00:19:00,500 So, adding an instrument, Of Music would change the music, it 322 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:02,600 would change the Commandment therefore we don't have that 323 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,500 that would be a human tradition. That would violate what the word 324 00:19:05,500 --> 00:19:07,700 of God is said, that's why we don't do it, okay? 325 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:10,500 Let's go back to those Jewish, folks. 326 00:19:11,700 --> 00:19:14,600 The pervasive thought, among the Jews was that Mount Sinai. 327 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:18,300 When you talk about revelation, God speaking to man Mount Sinai, 328 00:19:18,300 --> 00:19:21,500 symbolize the summit of God's communication to man. 329 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,100 And by the way, that misunderstanding also plagued 330 00:19:25,100 --> 00:19:29,000 the days of the early church as the judaizers sought to 331 00:19:29,008 --> 00:19:31,100 discredit the teaching of the Apostles. 332 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:33,400 Okay. There's Sermon on the Mount 333 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,600 stands in contrast to Mount Sinai because God never intended 334 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,400 for the Old Law. To remain forever, one of the 335 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:44,000 purposes of the Old Law was to prepare Israel to bring the 336 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,500 Savior For All Mankind. Galatians chapter 3, beginning 337 00:19:47,500 --> 00:19:53,900 in verse 23, before Faith came, we were kept under guard by the 338 00:19:53,900 --> 00:19:57,800 law kept for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 339 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:02,800 Therefore, the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ that we 340 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:06,400 might be justified by faith. It was never God's intention 341 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:10,100 that the Old Law of Moses or the oh, Old Testament precepts would 342 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:14,300 stand forever as a ruling body or ruling piece of Authority for 343 00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:17,800 mankind. Notice this word right here, the 344 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:21,300 word tutor, you may know this. It's also found in the King 345 00:20:21,300 --> 00:20:26,300 James version as Schoolmaster, what was the Schoolmaster and 346 00:20:26,300 --> 00:20:31,000 what was a tutor history tells us that a Schoolmaster or tutor 347 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:35,600 never actually did the teaching? The Schoolmaster literally 348 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,400 picked up the student and brought the student. 349 00:20:38,500 --> 00:20:42,500 To the master teacher, the master teacher is Jesus Christ, 350 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,800 that's what the Old Law did. It took the student or the pupil 351 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,200 it took man to Jesus Christ. The master teacher. 352 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:56,400 Now. Jesus came, as we said to 353 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,300 fulfill the Old Law of Moses. Matthew, 5:17 and 18. 354 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:03,500 And number two, he came to be the perfect, savior, John 1 and 355 00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:06,700 29. John the Baptist said, Behold 356 00:21:06,700 --> 00:21:10,400 the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. 357 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,000 He came to be the savior of the world, okay? 358 00:21:14,100 --> 00:21:18,000 In the New Testament, folks, in the new text of Testament. 359 00:21:19,700 --> 00:21:22,400 It is God's final Revelation to man. 360 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,400 God has spoken for the last time and it's revealed in the New 361 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:35,000 Testament, the essence of God's final Revelation is found in 362 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,300 contained. In The Sermon on the Mount. 363 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:43,100 And by the way there are reasons why it's the greatest sermon 364 00:21:43,100 --> 00:21:46,200 ever preached and you might say well you already said it's the 365 00:21:46,208 --> 00:21:48,700 greatest man that ever lived the greatest preacher the world ever 366 00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:50,600 knew obviously he is the Son of God. 367 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,800 He was perfect in any way surely that's the reason it's the 368 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:54,700 greatest sermon tow but wait there's more. 369 00:21:55,900 --> 00:21:59,300 There are reasons why it's the greatest sermon ever preached. 370 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,500 The Sermon on the Mount was things that were preached by 371 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:05,500 Jesus Christ himself that were fresh and new. 372 00:22:06,300 --> 00:22:08,800 They were not just a reinterpretation of Old 373 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,700 Testament precepts. It is about new revelation, 374 00:22:11,700 --> 00:22:15,800 please get that new revelation and it's used to demonstrate 375 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:20,000 God's will for Christians. Matthew said in Matthew chapter 376 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:25,000 4, and verse 23, that Jesus went about all Galilee preaching, the 377 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:30,200 kingdom, preaching, the gospel of the Kingdom, what immediately 378 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,400 follows that is The Sermon on the Mount. 379 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:39,100 I like, what one scholar said, he said as a result of that, The 380 00:22:39,100 --> 00:22:41,300 Sermon on the Mount is Kingdom law. 381 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,900 Its authoritative for the New Testament church today. 382 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:47,400 And why is that important here? It is, folks, here it is. 383 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,800 Because we are the church. And the church is the kingdom. 384 00:22:56,100 --> 00:23:01,100 So, the law comes from Jesus and what he preached was Kingdom 385 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,900 law. You know, at the end of The 386 00:23:04,908 --> 00:23:07,500 Sermon on the Mount, the people were astonished at the teaching 387 00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:10,700 of Jesus. They were astonished at his 388 00:23:10,700 --> 00:23:15,300 Doctrine and it has at his authority such astonishment 389 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:18,000 proves that what they heard was something that they had heard 390 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,400 for the first time not like anything else taught before one 391 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,000 scholar said, If The Sermon on the Mount is not law for 392 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,100 Christians today, then the church is only left with the 393 00:23:28,100 --> 00:23:32,700 book of Acts. The Epistles or the letters and 394 00:23:32,700 --> 00:23:36,600 the Book of Revelation. But remember this, most of what 395 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,300 we find in the first four books of the New Testament, that's 396 00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:43,900 Matthew, Mark, Luke and John occur before Jesus dies. 397 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,100 So, as one commentator said, If The Sermon on the Mount is not 398 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,500 does not apply to Christians today, then neither do the rest 399 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:54,700 of those books. So in The Sermon on the Mount, 400 00:23:55,100 --> 00:23:59,000 Jesus use the context of the Old Law and contrasted it with the 401 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:00,700 new law. Let me show you what I mean. 402 00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:05,100 Jesus Takes four basic positions, toward the Mosaic 403 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:08,100 law. Number one. 404 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,300 Jesus, sometimes accepts the teaching of the Old Testament. 405 00:24:14,500 --> 00:24:18,200 And then he brings it over just as it is in Matthew, Chapter 5 406 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,700 and verse has 43 and 44, you have heard that it was said, You 407 00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:27,000 shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy, but I say to 408 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,200 you, love your enemies. Bless those who curse, you do 409 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,400 good to those that hate you and pray for those who spitefully 410 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:39,600 use, you and persecute you. So, In this passage Jesus, 411 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,500 accepts that a man must love his neighbor and he binds it for all 412 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:46,100 time. So, like I said, just a moment 413 00:24:46,100 --> 00:24:50,800 ago, sometimes, Jesus, accepts the teaching of the Old 414 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,300 Testament, and he brings it over just as it is as found in 415 00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:59,700 Matthew, 5, 43 and 44, okay? But number two, now, Sometimes 416 00:24:59,700 --> 00:25:04,100 Jesus adds to the Old Testament teaching in Matthew chapter 5, 417 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:07,600 verses 21 and 22. You have heard that it was said 418 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,200 to those of old, you shall not murder. 419 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,200 And whoever murders will be in danger of the Judgment. 420 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,100 But I say to you, that whoever is angry with his brother 421 00:25:16,100 --> 00:25:19,200 without a, cause shall be in danger of the judgment and 422 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,500 whoever says to his brother raka shall be in danger of the 423 00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:27,600 council, but, whoever says, you fool shall be in danger of Hell, 424 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,500 Fire. Okay, In this passage. 425 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:39,200 Jesus, accepts the prohibition of murder, but he also adds the 426 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:44,100 prohibition of anger. I have to say something about 427 00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:50,100 anger and what this actual word here means because the Bible 428 00:25:50,100 --> 00:25:52,900 does say words like this, be angry. 429 00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:59,900 And sin not and incidentally the direct rendering of that is 430 00:25:59,900 --> 00:26:06,200 really this do not be angry that it causes you to sin. 431 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:13,400 Is being angry in itself in a general sense, a sin? 432 00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:18,400 No, in fact, obviously, Jesus was angry, when Jesus came in 433 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,500 and overturned. The tables of the moneychangers. 434 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,900 He was obviously angry and yet, the Lord did not send. 435 00:26:24,900 --> 00:26:27,300 The Bible says, there was. Neither guile found in his 436 00:26:27,300 --> 00:26:29,400 mouth. He was perfect in every way. 437 00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:34,900 Jesus did not sin, so anger in itself is not sin. 438 00:26:35,900 --> 00:26:39,900 The question is, what is the word angry mean in this passage? 439 00:26:39,900 --> 00:26:43,700 Because what Jesus is saying is, yes, the prohibition of murder, 440 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,800 that's true old law. But now I'm going to add the 441 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,000 prohibition of anger. What's the anger he's talking 442 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,000 about? Here it is. 443 00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:56,900 The word anger here means an emotional distaste for another. 444 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:04,200 You fill in the blanks. Have you ever been mad? 445 00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:08,100 Yeah. Yeah. 446 00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:15,600 We've all been mad. Being angry is one thing being 447 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,400 angry to the point that it causes us to have an emotional 448 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:23,500 distaste for another. That's the prohibition. 449 00:27:23,500 --> 00:27:26,700 That Jesus added. What else did Jesus say? 450 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,800 He said the word you can't say the word Rocca. 451 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,700 What is that? That's an Aramaic term which 452 00:27:32,700 --> 00:27:36,100 scorns a man's mind. Calling him stupid. 453 00:27:36,100 --> 00:27:37,700 I know we don't like that word stupid. 454 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,100 I know that's a word that we don't like I get it. 455 00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:44,300 But I'm going to tell you what the definition simply means. 456 00:27:44,300 --> 00:27:49,400 Lacking intelligence. And I want to say this to Jesus 457 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:53,800 was not making a Prohibition for saying these words in a casual 458 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,500 sense or even in a flippant sense, he's talking about the 459 00:27:56,500 --> 00:28:00,600 heart and all begins with an emotional distaste for another. 460 00:28:00,700 --> 00:28:04,600 Please get that because there are things that are stupid. 461 00:28:04,700 --> 00:28:07,200 In fact, the Bible doesn't even use that word. 462 00:28:07,300 --> 00:28:11,900 One translation says avoid foolish and unlearned questions. 463 00:28:12,100 --> 00:28:15,200 Another translation says avoid foolish. 464 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,700 And stupid questions. It means that which, lacks 465 00:28:19,700 --> 00:28:22,400 intelligence, they gender Strife, okay? 466 00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:26,700 So that's one thing, but it's an entirely different thing to 467 00:28:26,700 --> 00:28:31,400 score in a man's man's mind by calling him that when you have 468 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,500 an emotional distaste for him. And what else? 469 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,700 The word fool? The word fool scorns, a man's 470 00:28:38,700 --> 00:28:42,700 heart and character. And I got to tell you something, 471 00:28:42,700 --> 00:28:45,200 there are things in life that are foolish, there really is. 472 00:28:45,700 --> 00:28:47,100 Oh, there are things that are foolish. 473 00:28:47,700 --> 00:28:48,800 That the Bible even says this too. 474 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,300 By the way, in the Old Testament, says, only a fool 475 00:28:52,300 --> 00:28:54,200 says there is no God. So there is such a thing as a 476 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,800 fool. Okay, there is such a thing and 477 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:58,500 there are things that are foolish. 478 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,400 Yes. And in the common vernacular, 479 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,100 today people use that word like you're saying, hey buddy, 480 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:09,100 they're using that word now, for some reason, Times have changed, 481 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,700 you know, nowadays, but back in my day, they said, dude, hey 482 00:29:11,700 --> 00:29:15,000 dude. Now it's yo and bro, and fool 483 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,200 and these are words used. That's not what Jesus is talking 484 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,200 about. He's talking about using these 485 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:24,000 words as an emotional, distaste for another scorning, a man's 486 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,200 heart and character. That's what he's talking about. 487 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,700 It's about the heart, it's about the intention of what you're 488 00:29:29,700 --> 00:29:32,700 saying it and how you're saying it, that's the point. 489 00:29:34,700 --> 00:29:37,400 That's the point. So what was this point about 490 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,900 this first? Here it is, nobody has the right 491 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:45,100 to emotions that lead to contemptuous speech, that demean 492 00:29:45,100 --> 00:29:50,300 others Or harmful Deeds are actions against his fellow, man. 493 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:52,800 That's what he was talking about, okay? 494 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,700 Number three, the third basic position toward the Mosaic law. 495 00:29:57,100 --> 00:30:01,700 Jesus sometimes subtracts from, or qualifies the Old Law, let's 496 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:06,500 notice Matthew, 5, 31, and 32. Furthermore, it has been said, 497 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,700 whoever divorces his wife. Let him give her a certificate 498 00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:14,300 of divorce, stop right there. By the way, in the beginning it 499 00:30:14,300 --> 00:30:17,500 was not. So in the beginning God always 500 00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:19,700 wanted. Yes one man. 501 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:25,700 Yes to be married to one woman that was always God's plan and 502 00:30:25,700 --> 00:30:27,800 that they would be married for Life till death. 503 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:31,000 Do they part? But under the Old Law of Moses 504 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,400 because of the hardness of their hearts, the Bible says it was 505 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,900 permitted to get a divorce. Only, if Moses said, if you got 506 00:30:38,900 --> 00:30:42,600 your paperwork in, you gave her a certificate of divorce meant 507 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,800 that was under the Old Law. And you know what? 508 00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:47,800 Historically speaking, people were getting a divorce for 509 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,400 anything and everything. What did Jesus say? 510 00:30:51,700 --> 00:30:56,300 He's going to add to it, subtract from it and qualify it. 511 00:30:56,300 --> 00:31:00,100 He says this. It has been said, whoever 512 00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:02,200 divorces his wife. Let him give her a certificate 513 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,500 of course. But I say to you, that whoever 514 00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:08,100 divorces his wife for any reason except for sexual immorality 515 00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:11,600 causes her to commit adultery. And whoever marries a woman who 516 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:16,200 is divorced, commits adultery. So in these passages, Jesus 517 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,600 limits divorce to the cause of fornication and subtracts from 518 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,300 it. The permissive Mosaic system, 519 00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:26,600 number four, the fourth position, Jesus Took toward the 520 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:31,100 Mosaic law. Sometimes he rejected the Old 521 00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:36,200 Law in Thai early. Matthew 5:38 through, 42. 522 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,800 You have heard that it was said an eye for an eye, and a tooth 523 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:43,300 for a tooth. But I tell you do not resist an 524 00:31:43,300 --> 00:31:46,000 evil person. Whoever slaps, you on the right 525 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,900 cheek, turn the other to him the other. 526 00:31:47,900 --> 00:31:53,100 Also, if anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let 527 00:31:53,100 --> 00:31:56,300 him have your cloak. Also and whoever compels you to 528 00:31:56,300 --> 00:31:59,600 go one mile, go with him two. Give to him, who asks you and 529 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,200 from him who wants to borrow from you do, not turn away, 530 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:07,400 amazing things. The Lord said, Jesus is making a 531 00:32:07,408 --> 00:32:10,100 contrast here. He's rejecting the concept of an 532 00:32:10,100 --> 00:32:13,500 eye for an eye. He is he is contrasting that 533 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:15,400 with don't resist an evil person. 534 00:32:17,100 --> 00:32:20,100 It is other passages in The Sermon on the Mount he is 535 00:32:20,100 --> 00:32:23,700 contrasting. Hating one's enemy contradicting 536 00:32:23,700 --> 00:32:30,000 that with loving your enemy. So what Jesus taught in The 537 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:34,300 Sermon on the Mount was new, it was fresh, it had never been 538 00:32:34,300 --> 00:32:38,100 taught before The Sermon on the Mount accomplishes three 539 00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:42,300 masterful purposes and truly making it the greatest sermon 540 00:32:42,500 --> 00:32:43,800 ever preached. Here they are. 541 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,800 This is the reason is the greatest sermon ever preached. 542 00:32:47,900 --> 00:32:51,200 It depicts Jesus Kingdom as spiritual rather than physical. 543 00:32:52,700 --> 00:32:57,200 Number two, it contrasts the Mosaic law with a new law of 544 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:01,600 Jesus Christ. Number three, it contrast. 545 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,400 The religious hypocrisy of the Pharisees with the qualities of 546 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:08,400 God's children. The sermon stands as a 547 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,200 masterpiece one. Man said a Wellspring for 548 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,500 countless sermons. No. 549 00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:16,300 Other selection of scripture more aptly. 550 00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:19,400 Depicts the nature of God Than The Sermon on the Mount. 551 00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:23,200 I've often wondered, I don't know about you. 552 00:33:24,300 --> 00:33:30,100 I've often wondered what it must have been like To be there that 553 00:33:30,100 --> 00:33:34,800 day. And then all of a sudden Jesus 554 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:41,500 just starts preaching. And he goes from one subject to 555 00:33:41,500 --> 00:33:44,700 the next subject to the next subject to the next subject. 556 00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:50,300 And he spot-on, perfect. I don't know what that's like. 557 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:58,500 No notes, no preparation. Just the son of God. 558 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,700 The greatest one ever. And he just preached. 559 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,400 I've often wondered what it would have been like to sit 560 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,400 there and listen to the words that were coming out of his 561 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,300 mouth. Preaching, the greatest sermon. 562 00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:17,100 Ever preached, you know, this sermon has been appropriately 563 00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:21,199 called the Magna Carta or the document of the Kingdom. 564 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:26,600 It has been called the manifesto or the Declaration of policy of 565 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,100 the king. It's also been called the 566 00:34:29,100 --> 00:34:33,900 compendium or the concise detailed information of Christ's 567 00:34:33,900 --> 00:34:37,000 Doctrine. And because it seems to come 568 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,000 right after the choosing of the 12. 569 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,800 It is also called his ordination address to them. 570 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,800 But simply put simply put its the greatest sermon ever 571 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,100 preached. To us today. 572 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:58,100 Because it's the truth. It's just the truth. you know, 573 00:34:58,100 --> 00:35:03,500 sometimes it's really hard, do an introduction and keep it So 574 00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:07,000 it's not boring. I hope I've done that it's hard. 575 00:35:08,500 --> 00:35:11,300 But I felt like we needed to cover as an introduction in a 576 00:35:11,308 --> 00:35:14,600 sermon before we get into the context of what he actually 577 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,400 preached to have a better understanding of what he means, 578 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,100 as he goes through, it's going to take us some time to get 579 00:35:21,100 --> 00:35:24,200 through Matthew, 5, 6 and 7. But this is our sermon today. 580 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,200 The greatest sermon ever preached, the introduction to 581 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:31,000 The Sermon on the Mount and now we do what we always do. 582 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,200 We never, we never close a service. 583 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,800 After we teach them the word of God without extending an 584 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,500 invitation to somebody that might be subject to the We'll 585 00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:41,800 call an invitation to someone. That's not a Christian that 586 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,400 would like to become one. The steps are very, very simple. 587 00:35:44,900 --> 00:35:47,400 If you want to become a child of God, if you want to be saved, 588 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,400 it's very simple. The Bible says, the first thing 589 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,900 you have to do is hear the word of God, Romans, 10:17. 590 00:35:53,900 --> 00:35:57,800 So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God 591 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,600 upon hearing the word of God. We have a choice to make in 592 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,900 Hebrews 11 and 6. The Bible says, we must believe 593 00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:07,800 with all our heart without faith. 594 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,700 It's impossible to please him for. 595 00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:13,300 He who comes to God, must believe that he is, and that he 596 00:36:13,300 --> 00:36:16,500 is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. 597 00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:20,300 Upon hearing the word of God and believing we have something else 598 00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:22,500 we must do to. Also we got to repent of our 599 00:36:22,500 --> 00:36:26,200 sins, acts 17 and 30 truly these times of ignorance, God, 600 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,600 overlooked. But now commands all men 601 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,300 everywhere to repent, all that means is I got to change my 602 00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:35,500 life, hear the word of God, believe in Jesus with all your 603 00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:36,900 heart. Repent, and change your life. 604 00:36:36,900 --> 00:36:39,000 I'm gonna change my life today. Then what are you going to do? 605 00:36:39,100 --> 00:36:41,800 You're going to say the greatest thing you will ever say. 606 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:46,000 You will confess the Lord Jesus Christ, as the Son of God acts 607 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,000 8:37. Then Peter said Philip said, if 608 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,700 you believe with all your heart you made and he answered and 609 00:36:51,700 --> 00:36:56,300 said I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God upon taking 610 00:36:56,300 --> 00:36:59,700 these four steps that we've noticed so far, you're a fit 611 00:36:59,700 --> 00:37:01,900 candidate to go down to the Waters of baptism. 612 00:37:01,900 --> 00:37:07,600 That is the point of salvation. We must be baptized for the 613 00:37:07,607 --> 00:37:13,200 remission of sins, Mark 16:16. He who believes and is baptized, 614 00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:16,400 will be saved. But he, who does not believe 615 00:37:17,300 --> 00:37:19,800 will be condemned. If you've never taken these 616 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,200 steps of obedience, You can do that today. 617 00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:27,300 We would love to assist you in that. 618 00:37:27,300 --> 00:37:29,600 Maybe you have. Maybe there are things in your 619 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:30,800 life that are not what they should be. 620 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,700 Maybe you've straight away. Be a great time to come back. 621 00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:36,000 Just repent of those things. Confess, those things would pray 622 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,100 with you and for you, and God will forgive and restore. 623 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,200 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 624 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:48,000 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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