The Sermon on the Mount - Claims at the King’s Gate

• The stakes are eternal        

• Our best efforts are failure

• God’s one way is a guarantee

The Sermon on the Mount - The Proof Is in the Fruit

• Appearance

• Nature

• Objective

• Reveal

• Destiny

The “Rule"

The Reason

The Reality

The Reward

The Sermon on the Mount - Judging Well

Clarifying the command…what kind of judging?

3 Reasons we are to be non-judgmental:

1. Being non-judgmental protects us from being judged

                1Corinthians 11:32

                2Corinthians 5:10

2. Being non-judgmental prevents us from being harmful hypocrites

3. Being non-judgmental provides us a judicious spirit

• To whom is this antidote given?

• Why we can be sure the antidote works.

• How we put it to use.

• Affections: What grips your heart?

• Fidelity: What holds your gaze?

• Service: What gets your work?

• Righteousness is meant to be seen

• Righteousness is meant to be secret

• Righteousness wants the right reward

• We love even those who oppose us 

• We love in a right-side-up way

• We love with an entirely new nature

• Self-Centered Living is our Ruin

• Self-Indifferent Living is our Call

• Self-Replacement Life is our Power

The Sermon on the Mount - Faithful People

Faithfulness is defiled by the law and the world

Faithfulness is holistic in Jesus' Kingdom

Faithfulness is unique in Jesus' People

“Harmonious People:

Living together in Christ’s Kingdom requires harmony.

 Clarity: Jesus is after harmonious obedience from the heart.

Priority: Worship must wait if we are responsible for pursuing harmony 

Urgency: Great loss awaits those who neglect pursuing harmony