Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?” ( Matthew 6:25). “Do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Jesus spoke directly to our anxious hearts. “The words of this sermon,” wrote John Foster for Life, Hope and Truth, “are as relevant today as they were when Christ spoke them!” We submit the authority of our lives to Christ and let His goodness and love flow through us. Now Jesus was adding the rest of the story …and it may have seemed too good to be true! They were used to religion, and all of the rules they had learned to follow their entire lives in order to be counted worthy of God. They were missing so much of the complete picture, it was hard for them to wrap their minds around what Jesus was saying. Jesus’ teaching seemed radical to the listening disciples, but He wasn’t re-inventing the proverbial wheel. The Old Testament and the New Testament combined provide the complete story of our salvation. “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them” ( Matthew 5:17). Jesus did not replace any of the old laws.
It’s all about who Jesus is, and Whose we are.ģ. The supernatural grace of our Savior enables us to live the way He spoke of. “The Sermon on the Mount is not simply a list of rules to follow, it is an invitation to live under grace and experience blessings and rewards from living Christ-like,” explains this Bible Study Tools article.
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Jesus sat down to teach His disciples what it truly meant to be blessed (The Beatitudes), how to pray (The Lord’s Prayer), and live their daily lives in harmony with the Creator of their hearts.
These are gifts given to us by our Father in heaven. There is no plausible or possible way to earn God’s love, His salvation, and His grace. No matter what we do, how many religious rules we follow or good deeds we accomplish, the assurance Paul gave to the Roman church is applicable to us today: we all fall short of the glory of God. “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet” ( Matthew 5:13). Jesus’ teaching is not a collection of religious rules to follow. He sat down and began to teach, and they listened intently. But at the moment Jesus sat down on the mountainside to speak, His disciples were void of highlighters, journals and sticky notes. We mark up our Bibles and prepare to internalize as much as we can. I think sometimes when we think of this sermon, we ready our pens and take pretty notes. He was God walking among them! When He sat down to teach, the supernatural divinity of the Son of God spoke to the disciples. Jesus wasn’t a self-righteous teacher who in any way fit the description of the other teachers of the day. He simply sat down, and opened His mouth. When Jesus sat down to teach His disciples, He didn’t yell for their attention. His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them” ( Matthew 5:1-2). “Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. Jesus did not audibly command the crowd to come and listen to Him. The overarching purpose of the Sermon on the Mount was to bring the old law into New Covenant light.”ĥ Things You Didn't Know about the Sermon on the Mount 1. John Piper wrote, “…six times in Matthew 5, Jesus stunningly confronted Scripture and tradition with his supremely authoritative words, ‘But I say to you’ ( Matthew 5:22, 28, 32, 39, 44). Exodus 19:3 says, “while Moses went up to God, The LORD called him out of the mountain, saying, ‘Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel.” Some scholars suggest this is why Jesus chose a mountainside. Jesus was intentional about everything He did and said. It’s possible Jesus spoke for days, rather than hours. “Those who especially wanted to attach themselves to him, Jesus takes aside to instruct,” writes the Expositor’s Bible Commentary. His words are just as applicable for Christ followers today as they were when they rolled off of His divine tongue as the Son of God briefly wrapped in humanity on this earth. Although his ministry touched the masses, he saw the need to teach his ‘disciples’ closely,” says the Expositor’s Bible Commentary. “Here Jesus stands at the height of his popularity.
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