What is the Sermon on the Mount?
The moral portrait of Jesus’ own people.
Which moral theory had these three elements?
1. The goal of life is human flourishing.
2. Ethics are formed by and take shape within a community.
3. Practice the habits that shape one’s character.
A. Normative Theory
B. Virtue Ethics
C. Utilitarian Ethics
D. Do you Honey Boo Boo
B
What is the major issue with all of the moral theories?
When we try to remove the lead for forgiveness and salvation
What are the three angles in which Jesus taught ethics?
Ethics from above
Ethics from beyond
Ethics from below
Defined the concept of ethics from beyond.
We are being urged to Live now in light of earth’s future.
Who was the Greek philosopher who founded virtue ethics?
A. Aristotle
B. Aeropostle
C. Abercrombie
D. Aerosmith
A
What should the goal be when reading the sermon on the mount?
Use this course, commentaries, resources, and the scriptures to lead us to become in real life the portrait Jesus sketched in the sermon.
Define narrative ethics.
We are a part of a story, that story formed our ethics and is designed to shape us further.
What is inaugurated eschatology?
A. The future belongs to the powerful.
B. The past has nothing to do with the future.
C. Don’t cry over spilled milk.
D. The future has already begun to take place in the present.
D
What is the fundamental problem with utilitarian ethics?
Far too often, this ethic is shaped and controlled by the privileged and the powerful.
What is “ godly wisdom” vs “wisdom ethics”?
Godly wisdom is how to live in God‘s world in God‘s way.
Wisdom ethics, you can only acquire God‘s wisdom by humbly receiving the wisdom of society sages.
What is Jesus‘s three part vision for the sermon on the mount?
Messianic
Ecclesial
Pneumatic
Matthew’s 4 part summary to his audience in his Gospel is:
*Here is Jesus (Matthew 5-7)
*Here is Jesus’ message (Matthew 5-7)
*Here is Jesus’ actions (Matthew 8-9)
*______________
A. Here is Jesus’ body
B. Here is Jesus’ blood
C. Now, you decide
D. None of the above
C
Jesus ends the Sermon on the Mount by asking people to do what He ________
A. Did
B. Taught
C. Didn’t
D. None of the above
B
Jesus is teaching the new ________ as the new ________ to the new __________.
A. Law, Moses, People of God
B. Law, David, Israel
C. Law, Principal, World
D. Law, Adam, Kingdom
A
The Beatitudes are a radical manifesto of a Kingdom way of life because Jesus reveals who is _____ and who is ______.
A. Good and who is Bad
B. Right and who is wrong
C. President and who is King
D. None of the above
D
The word “Blessed” in Greek is:
A. Marco Polo
B. Makarios
C. Macaroni
D. Macharana
B
What is our best translation in English for this word “Blessed”?
A. Rich
B. Happy
C. The Good Life
D. B&C
D
Name one of the 5 major themes of the word “Blessed”:
The one who is blessed is blessed by the God of Israel
Here is the summary of the Beatitudes:
A “Blessed” person is someone who, because of a heart for God, is promised and enjoys God’s favor regardless of that person’s status or countercultural condition.
In Matthew chapters 5-7 we are given a SERMON and a _________.
A. Song
B. Summons
C. Subpoena
D. All of the Above
B
The proper response to the Sermon is to:
A. Give an offering
B. Pray about it
C. Follow, or obey its teachings
D. Assume it is only for the super religious
C
