We must _______ reading the Sermon on the Mount by listening carefully to the ________ of the Sermon and then tie it back to the ________.
BEGIN
ENDING
BEGINNING
The Sermon on the Mount is a comprehensive sketch of the __________ and ________ message of Jesus.
teaching
preaching
Name Matthew’s 4 summary points to his audience:
- Here is Jesus (Matthew 1-4)
- Here is Jesus’ message (Matthew 5-7)
- Here is Jesus’ actions (Matthew 8-9)
- Now, YOU decide
The ending of the Sermon on the Mount gives us a fundamental clue on how to read the Sermon.
Jesus ends the sermon by ….what?
calling people to do what He taught.
We are given the _________ _________ by ____ ______ of moral ethics, a way of life to live, and then given the choice to follow or not.
Kingdom Vision
The King
We are given a __________ and then a __________. We must make a decision about Jesus.
SERMON
SUMMONS
We don’t see the significance, but the Jewish readers correlated ‘mountain language’ to 2 figures. Who were they?
Moses and Yahweh.
Jesus fulfilled what Moses ________ ____.
could not
Jesus is teaching the ____ Law as the ____ Moses to the ____ People of God.
new
If Jesus is the new Moses/Law giving teacher for the new people of God, then there is only one
proper response (shown in 2 ways):
- A New Posture - we are to assume the posture of a student
- A New Obedience - follow and obey its teachings
How do we encounter Jesus?
Through the reading of the scripture
Jesus was showing us how he __________ humans to live.
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