The Sermon On The Mount (Introduction) | Frank Brancato

It is certainly wonderful to be here with all of you.

I've enjoyed so far worshipping together.

And all of you that are here, we say welcome and I hope and pray

that what we have to consider for a little while this morning

would be edifying, do you and very encouraging to you from the

scriptures? Today, I'm going to start a

series that will take us quite some time.

I'm going to start a series on the great Sermon on the Mount.

It was in fact and indeed the greatest sermon ever preached

You know that phrase? I just said the greatest sermon

ever preached. I was reminded of something.

My mother may remember this my mother and father were baptized

into Jesus Christ in 1973. And I don't know how many years

after that that this event happened.

But my father was asked at the last minute to give a lesson,

and I remember as a little boy, what in the world is my dad

going to teach on? My father got up in the pulpit

and his introduction, and this is what he said, he said today,

you're going to hear the greatest sermon you have ever

heard. and I remember as a little boy, sitting there

thinking man what you're going to say next, And my father, read

The Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5, 6 and 7, I remember it.

Took him about 20 minutes and I got to thinking about that.

Some of you have heard me say this before some of you have

not, I'm going to say it again. The greatest man that ever lived

who was the greatest preacher, the world ever knew preach the

greatest sermon ever preached in 20 minutes.

Sometimes we as preachers and teachers of the Gospel think

that in order to really exhaust a subject or edify on a subject

or really get to the meat of the subject, we got to talk for a

really long time. Jesus, the master preach, the

greatest sermon ever preached. And by the way, I'll just say

this in The Sermon, on the Mount, it is the richest deepest

Medias, things, ever taught, and the Lord, did it in 20 minutes

thought that was rather interesting.

You know, I was given some great advice as a preacher as a young

man and as I got older, I've been given a lot of advice as a

preacher. Seems like a lot of people want

to give people advice and some advice was really great and some

advice was not so great but I'm going to tell you one of the

greatest Things of the best advice.

I was given as a preacher. I wish it was given to me

earlier on, it was given to me later on, but I want to tell

you, I don't always accomplish this, but I always try and this

is what this man said to me. Very good friend of mine.

He said, Frank, if you really want to maximize your

Effectiveness as a speaker, then learn to say more.

With less words. And that's what the master did.

That is what Jesus did. He said more with less words,

let's begin as an introductory text.

Please in Matthew 5, verses 1 and 2.

Matthew 5:1

And by the way, this sermon here is just an introduction to The

Sermon on the Mount. We're going to get into what he

preached later on in other sermons.

This is just an introduction. Matthew Chapter 5, beginning in

Matthew 5 · chapter mention

verse 1, And seeing the multitudes he went up on a

mountain and when he was seated, his disciples came to him, then

he opened his mouth and taught them saying.

The things that Jesus said after that were nothing, short of

masterful, he was indeed the greatest.

Okay. So the Sermon on the Mount is

Matthew, 5, 6 and 7, let's back up the first four chapters of

the Book of Matthew successfully, portrayed, Jesus

Christ as the Messiah, and number, To they demonstrate the

Dual nature of his mission that's found in chapters 1

through 4. What was the Dual nature of the

Lord's mission number one to fulfill the Old Law of Moses.

We're going to get to what that means in just a moment.

But that's number one. He came to fulfill the Old Law

of Moses. Number two, he came to establish

the new law of Jesus Christ. His law that we are under today,

but let's talk about the Old Law of Moses, for just a moment.

And The fulfilling of the Old Law in the Old Law of Moses in

Matthew Chapter 5 and verses 17 and 18.

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This is what Jesus said, he said, do not think that I came

to destroy the law or the prophets.

I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill, he said not one jot

or one Tittle will by no means pass from the law until all be

fulfilled. What Jesus was saying, here in

this passage, he said I didn't come to destroy.

The law or the prophets, I came to fulfill the law or the

prophets one of the Dual Natures of his mission.

Ok now what he's saying is this, whatever this means we'll get to

this in just a moment not even a jot or tittle will pass from the

Old Law until all things are fulfilled.

So what in the world is a jot? And what in the world is a

tittle the word jot, by the way, is a word that actually means to

Describe the smallest letter of the alphabet.

Now, I don't usually do this. I usually just tell you, for

example, something comes from the word in the original and

I'll tell you what it means, but I don't usually pronounce the

Greek words anymore. I used to get to the meaning of

it, but I got to use this name and I got to say the name.

I got to say, with the Greek word is, you know why?

Because you and I know exactly what that is.

Especially the old timers like my father, it's the word iota.

Ever hear the word IO dinner sentence.

My dad used to say we didn't accomplish anything though.

No, you didn't accomplish anything today, Frank.

Not one iota, meaning. Not the least little bit.

What is Jesus saying here? Not the least little bit of the

Old Law will pass away until all things are fulfilled.

That's number one, that's called a jot.

What's a tittle? A tittle comes from the Greek

word literally, meaning little horn.

Okay. And it's the smallest brush of a

pen stroke. What's that mean?

All right. In the English, alphabet, we

need to have a little horn. We need to have a tittle to

Penguins between two very similar letters.

I'm going to give you an example to similar letters in the

English alphabet. You know, what, we need to

distinguish between the two. We need a tittle here.

It is the capital letter C and the capital letter G, they look

the same, but in order to distinguish between the two, we

need this little Tunnel right there.

We need the little horn right there.

We had the tiny little pen stroke.

What's Jesus saying he's living under the Old Law of Moses, he's

preaching this sermon. Even during the Old Law of Moses

and he's saying, not even the smallest letter of the alphabet

or even the smallest. Pen stroke would change from the

Old Law until when until all things are fulfilled.

All right? What are you talking about about

all things being fulfilled? First of all, all things are

fulfilled when his Earthly Ministry or his Earthly mission

is completed. and by the way, that ends in his death, on the

cross in Colossians chapter 2 and verse 14, Having wiped out

Colossians 2 · chapter mention

the handwriting of requirements. Get this.

That was against us. What's that?

That's the old law of Moses. But did you get the first part

in that great having wiped out, the handwriting of requirements

that was against us, which was contrary to us?

All of that was the old law of Moses and he has taken it out of

the way. What did he do?

He nailed it to his cross. Now, guess what?

Now, all things are fulfilled. So in Matthew 5, 6 and 7, Jesus

preaches, his greatest sermon and he gives us a new system of

law in The Sermon, on the Mount. He lays the groundwork for his

subsequent Ministry, and development at the church by

depicting the nature of the kingdom and its subject.

And that's very important because guess what we are in the

Kingdom, more of that in a minute.

And we are the subjects. So we got to really listen to

what he's got to say. Here's stop to consider that

Jewish people back in those days.

Really believed in and wanted a messiah.

They really wanted a messiah. The problem with the Jewish

people that lived in the days of Jesus, is they misunderstood

grossly, misunderstood the nature of the Messianic Kingdom,

they thought that Jesus was coming to relieve them or save

them from the oppressive thumb of Rome.

In other words, Roman occupation in Palestine and they thought

that the Messiah was going to come and remove that by

establishing a political Kingdom, an Earthly Kingdom.

Rain on an Earthly throne and finally Rome would no longer

oppress them. That's what they thought.

And by the way, let's back up, you might remember years ago

when I talk there, sermon on the triumphal entry into Jerusalem,

I'll be very brief about this, but I got to make this point.

He rides in on the back of a Colt of a donkey.

Do you remember what the people said?

They said, Hosanna to the highest.

If you look up the word hosanna in an English dictionary, it

will say something like this. A form of praise and

recognition. So sometimes we hear the word

Hosanna and we think he was just being praised in that passage

not so fast. The word Hosanna.

There comes from the Hebrew word hoshea nod, you know what it

means? Save us.

Save us. They thought that Jesus was

going to come in and save them from Rome, but Jesus came to be

our Messiah to save us from hell.

I think I like what he did best. Who cares about oppression?

He came to save our soul. The Sermon on the Mount reveals

the true type of his kingdom that he came to establish by

focusing on spiritual issues. He gave spiritual principles

that demonstrates that he wants to rain.

Get this please, he wants to rein in the human heart.

That's what Jesus wants. He wants to rein in your heart,

he wants to be the motivating factor in everything you do.

He's not going to rain on an Earthly Throne.

He wants to rein in your heart and change your life.

I got to tell you something, we need to spend time trying to

bring people to Jesus. Jesus, as the Messiah Jesus as

the savior. Because if people would be

converted to Jesus and truly have Jesus raining in their

hearts, don't you see that? Everything else falls into place

automatically? It's about being converted to

Jesus. That's what he wants.

He wants to rein in your heart and not an Earthly throne and by

the way, it was never going to be an Earthly Throne.

He made this point, very clear to Pilot Jesus said this before,

pilot before he was crucified. He said, my kingdom is not of

this world. If my kingdom were of this

world, my servants would fight so that I should not be

delivered to the Jews but now my kingdom is not from here.

Okay. Now, the Jews believe in Jesus

day, there were very fond of the Old Law.

We know that Here was the problem.

The religious leaders misapplied.

It And they corrupted it. With their human Traditions.

Okay. What am I talking about human

Traditions? First of all, let's go to

Matthew 15 and 3 he answered and said to them, why do you also

transgress the Commandment of God because of your tradition?

I got to say is I don't have time to go into Matthew 15.

I'm just gonna say this quickly, the context of Matthew 15 and

the context of what Jesus is saying here is very simple.

He's talking about the tradition, the Tradition of the

elders about hand washing. Okay.

Now, is there anything wrong with hand-washing?

Absolutely not for cleanliness purposes.

Absolutely not. In fact, I don't want people

touching my stuff for my food without washing their hands.

We all know that washing your hands is a good thing.

So what's he talking about Jesus says you transgress the

Commandment of God because of your tradition.

They were taking the tradition of hand-washing.

Not for cleanliness purposes, they were doing it for Ceremony

purposes because they believed it was an act of piety.

It was an act of being holy and that became a human tradition.

Now human Traditions, please stay with me.

Human Traditions are not wrong in themself But when a human

tradition causes us to transgress the Commandment of

God, now we got a problem. That's what they were doing.

The Lord's point to the Pharisees was this, they had a

willingness to violate the law of God because of those human

Traditions. I want to make a few points

about tradition. Okay.

First of all, there is Apostolic tradition this episode

tradition. By the way, passed down by the

apostles written, in the word of God in the New Testament.

Okay, Apostolic tradition is binding and we must bind it and

we can't deviate from it. In other words, it Speak with

the Bible. Speaks beside it with a Bible

silent. We stick to Apostolic tradition

by the word of God. That is a binding tradition.

Okay. There are other human Traditions

though that are acceptable, but can't be binding.

And may I just say this to it is just as wrong to bind with the

Lord is not bound, as it is too loose with the Lord, has not

loosed. Here's my question.

What are human Traditions? One fast example in my house a

And tradition is Thanksgiving and we do the same thing every

every year at Thanksgiving. I'm so thankful for Tina being

such a great hostess. Everybody comes over, we eat

around a time of a certain football game where we cheer for

a certain football team and hope that team doesn't lose that day

tradition. Human tradition.

No problem. But are there human traditions

in the church? Yes.

Give you an example. Are they wrong?

No, let me show you what I mean. if a human tradition is an

expedient, Which expedites the process of what's been

commanded? No problem.

For example, in the scriptures, we are told to sing, we are

commanded to sing. We are commanded to sing with

the melody in our hearts to the Lord, okay?

So what we do to expedite that process is we have what we call

a songbook, what do we need to say?

We need two things, right? We need notes and we need to

know what is the song book. It is a book filled with words.

Treasury notes in tune. I mean words and to we need

those two things words and tune, okay?

A songbook expedite that process traditionally, we have a song

book that includes words and to me, that's a tradition.

In the Philippines. They have her songbook, it has

words but they don't have a tune.

You know why? They don't write the music.

What they have is words and they already know the tune.

So they sing the tune because they know the tune and sing the

words. Same thing that's their

tradition. No problem.

Give another example. We are commanded to teach from

the word of God when we Assemble.

And you may remember some of this remember the old timers

that use bedsheets? The old-time preachers, boy,

they put that bedsheet up there and maybe it would have

scriptures on there. Maybe an outline on there may be

a diagram of the Tabernacle and maybe a preacher would stand

there with a long stick, a pointer and he would point to

various aspects of the Tabernacle he would say, look

over here. This is this, and over there.

That's is that. Anyone with that know it is an

expedient that expedites the Commandment to teach.

It doesn't add anything, it doesn't subtract from anything,

it doesn't corrupt anything. So traditionally preachers would

use a bedsheet, guess what? We no longer have that

tradition. Another tradition came in human

tradition. That expedited the process, it

was called a chalkboard. Remember those?

We don't have one now. We had a whiteboard on the other

side of this, though, by the way, chalkboard, and people

would write on the chalkboard and that would expedite the

process, it would give a visual aid, it didn't add anything,

didn't subtract from anything. You didn't corrupt anything

Human tradition. I remember we got a white board

here. You know what my father-in-law

had amazing penmanship. And he said, one day, I hate the

Whiteboard. I said why Darrell he said?

Because I can write better with chalk.

That was his preference. Either one was perfectly fine,

it didn't matter, they were both expedience, Expediting the

process by tradition. You might find a chalkboard or a

whiteboard in a church building, which leads me to this

tradition. PowerPoint.

Now, you know a person may not like PowerPoint.

But it doesn't add to anything. It doesn't subtract from

anything. It doesn't correct anything.

It's a tradition. Now, that many places have

PowerPoint. The same thing, human,

Traditions. That don't violate the

Commandments of God, okay? Really quickly, what then would

be a human tradition that we could bring into the church.

That would violate the Commandment of God, it would be

anything that would change what's been authorized?

And that's why we in the Church of Christ, don't have

instruments of music, because we've been commanded to sing and

sing with the melody in our hearts to the Lord.

So, adding an instrument, Of Music would change the music, it

would change the Commandment therefore we don't have that

that would be a human tradition. That would violate what the word

of God is said, that's why we don't do it, okay?

Let's go back to those Jewish, folks.

The pervasive thought, among the Jews was that Mount Sinai.

When you talk about revelation, God speaking to man Mount Sinai,

symbolize the summit of God's communication to man.

And by the way, that misunderstanding also plagued

the days of the early church as the judaizers sought to

discredit the teaching of the Apostles.

Okay. There's Sermon on the Mount

stands in contrast to Mount Sinai because God never intended

for the Old Law. To remain forever, one of the

purposes of the Old Law was to prepare Israel to bring the

Savior For All Mankind. Galatians chapter 3, beginning

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in verse 23, before Faith came, we were kept under guard by the

law kept for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

Therefore, the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ that we

might be justified by faith. It was never God's intention

that the Old Law of Moses or the oh, Old Testament precepts would

stand forever as a ruling body or ruling piece of Authority for

mankind. Notice this word right here, the

word tutor, you may know this. It's also found in the King

James version as Schoolmaster, what was the Schoolmaster and

what was a tutor history tells us that a Schoolmaster or tutor

never actually did the teaching? The Schoolmaster literally

picked up the student and brought the student.

To the master teacher, the master teacher is Jesus Christ,

that's what the Old Law did. It took the student or the pupil

it took man to Jesus Christ. The master teacher.

Now. Jesus came, as we said to

fulfill the Old Law of Moses. Matthew, 5:17 and 18.

And number two, he came to be the perfect, savior, John 1 and

29. John the Baptist said, Behold

the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

He came to be the savior of the world, okay?

In the New Testament, folks, in the new text of Testament.

It is God's final Revelation to man.

God has spoken for the last time and it's revealed in the New

Testament, the essence of God's final Revelation is found in

contained. In The Sermon on the Mount.

And by the way there are reasons why it's the greatest sermon

ever preached and you might say well you already said it's the

greatest man that ever lived the greatest preacher the world ever

knew obviously he is the Son of God.

He was perfect in any way surely that's the reason it's the

greatest sermon tow but wait there's more.

There are reasons why it's the greatest sermon ever preached.

The Sermon on the Mount was things that were preached by

Jesus Christ himself that were fresh and new.

They were not just a reinterpretation of Old

Testament precepts. It is about new revelation,

please get that new revelation and it's used to demonstrate

God's will for Christians. Matthew said in Matthew chapter

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4, and verse 23, that Jesus went about all Galilee preaching, the

kingdom, preaching, the gospel of the Kingdom, what immediately

follows that is The Sermon on the Mount.

I like, what one scholar said, he said as a result of that, The

Sermon on the Mount is Kingdom law.

Its authoritative for the New Testament church today.

And why is that important here? It is, folks, here it is.

Because we are the church. And the church is the kingdom.

So, the law comes from Jesus and what he preached was Kingdom

law. You know, at the end of The

Sermon on the Mount, the people were astonished at the teaching

of Jesus. They were astonished at his

Doctrine and it has at his authority such astonishment

proves that what they heard was something that they had heard

for the first time not like anything else taught before one

scholar said, If The Sermon on the Mount is not law for

Christians today, then the church is only left with the

book of Acts. The Epistles or the letters and

the Book of Revelation. But remember this, most of what

we find in the first four books of the New Testament, that's

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John occur before Jesus dies.

So, as one commentator said, If The Sermon on the Mount is not

does not apply to Christians today, then neither do the rest

of those books. So in The Sermon on the Mount,

Jesus use the context of the Old Law and contrasted it with the

new law. Let me show you what I mean.

Jesus Takes four basic positions, toward the Mosaic

law. Number one.

Jesus, sometimes accepts the teaching of the Old Testament.

And then he brings it over just as it is in Matthew, Chapter 5

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and verse has 43 and 44, you have heard that it was said, You

shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy, but I say to

you, love your enemies. Bless those who curse, you do

good to those that hate you and pray for those who spitefully

use, you and persecute you. So, In this passage Jesus,

accepts that a man must love his neighbor and he binds it for all

time. So, like I said, just a moment

ago, sometimes, Jesus, accepts the teaching of the Old

Testament, and he brings it over just as it is as found in

Matthew, 5, 43 and 44, okay? But number two, now, Sometimes

Jesus adds to the Old Testament teaching in Matthew chapter 5,

Matthew 5:21

verses 21 and 22. You have heard that it was said

to those of old, you shall not murder.

And whoever murders will be in danger of the Judgment.

But I say to you, that whoever is angry with his brother

without a, cause shall be in danger of the judgment and

whoever says to his brother raka shall be in danger of the

council, but, whoever says, you fool shall be in danger of Hell,

Fire. Okay, In this passage.

Jesus, accepts the prohibition of murder, but he also adds the

prohibition of anger. I have to say something about

anger and what this actual word here means because the Bible

does say words like this, be angry.

And sin not and incidentally the direct rendering of that is

really this do not be angry that it causes you to sin.

Is being angry in itself in a general sense, a sin?

No, in fact, obviously, Jesus was angry, when Jesus came in

and overturned. The tables of the moneychangers.

He was obviously angry and yet, the Lord did not send.

The Bible says, there was. Neither guile found in his

mouth. He was perfect in every way.

Jesus did not sin, so anger in itself is not sin.

The question is, what is the word angry mean in this passage?

Because what Jesus is saying is, yes, the prohibition of murder,

that's true old law. But now I'm going to add the

prohibition of anger. What's the anger he's talking

about? Here it is.

The word anger here means an emotional distaste for another.

You fill in the blanks. Have you ever been mad?

Yeah. Yeah.

We've all been mad. Being angry is one thing being

angry to the point that it causes us to have an emotional

distaste for another. That's the prohibition.

That Jesus added. What else did Jesus say?

He said the word you can't say the word Rocca.

What is that? That's an Aramaic term which

scorns a man's mind. Calling him stupid.

I know we don't like that word stupid.

I know that's a word that we don't like I get it.

But I'm going to tell you what the definition simply means.

Lacking intelligence. And I want to say this to Jesus

was not making a Prohibition for saying these words in a casual

sense or even in a flippant sense, he's talking about the

heart and all begins with an emotional distaste for another.

Please get that because there are things that are stupid.

In fact, the Bible doesn't even use that word.

One translation says avoid foolish and unlearned questions.

Another translation says avoid foolish.

And stupid questions. It means that which, lacks

intelligence, they gender Strife, okay?

So that's one thing, but it's an entirely different thing to

score in a man's man's mind by calling him that when you have

an emotional distaste for him. And what else?

The word fool? The word fool scorns, a man's

heart and character. And I got to tell you something,

there are things in life that are foolish, there really is.

Oh, there are things that are foolish.

That the Bible even says this too.

By the way, in the Old Testament, says, only a fool

says there is no God. So there is such a thing as a

fool. Okay, there is such a thing and

there are things that are foolish.

Yes. And in the common vernacular,

today people use that word like you're saying, hey buddy,

they're using that word now, for some reason, Times have changed,

you know, nowadays, but back in my day, they said, dude, hey

dude. Now it's yo and bro, and fool

and these are words used. That's not what Jesus is talking

about. He's talking about using these

words as an emotional, distaste for another scorning, a man's

heart and character. That's what he's talking about.

It's about the heart, it's about the intention of what you're

saying it and how you're saying it, that's the point.

That's the point. So what was this point about

this first? Here it is, nobody has the right

to emotions that lead to contemptuous speech, that demean

others Or harmful Deeds are actions against his fellow, man.

That's what he was talking about, okay?

Number three, the third basic position toward the Mosaic law.

Jesus sometimes subtracts from, or qualifies the Old Law, let's

notice Matthew, 5, 31, and 32. Furthermore, it has been said,

whoever divorces his wife. Let him give her a certificate

of divorce, stop right there. By the way, in the beginning it

was not. So in the beginning God always

wanted. Yes one man.

Yes to be married to one woman that was always God's plan and

that they would be married for Life till death.

Do they part? But under the Old Law of Moses

because of the hardness of their hearts, the Bible says it was

permitted to get a divorce. Only, if Moses said, if you got

your paperwork in, you gave her a certificate of divorce meant

that was under the Old Law. And you know what?

Historically speaking, people were getting a divorce for

anything and everything. What did Jesus say?

He's going to add to it, subtract from it and qualify it.

He says this. It has been said, whoever

divorces his wife. Let him give her a certificate

of course. But I say to you, that whoever

divorces his wife for any reason except for sexual immorality

causes her to commit adultery. And whoever marries a woman who

is divorced, commits adultery. So in these passages, Jesus

limits divorce to the cause of fornication and subtracts from

it. The permissive Mosaic system,

number four, the fourth position, Jesus Took toward the

Mosaic law. Sometimes he rejected the Old

Law in Thai early. Matthew 5:38 through, 42.

Matthew 5:38

You have heard that it was said an eye for an eye, and a tooth

for a tooth. But I tell you do not resist an

evil person. Whoever slaps, you on the right

cheek, turn the other to him the other.

Also, if anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let

him have your cloak. Also and whoever compels you to

go one mile, go with him two. Give to him, who asks you and

from him who wants to borrow from you do, not turn away,

amazing things. The Lord said, Jesus is making a

contrast here. He's rejecting the concept of an

eye for an eye. He is he is contrasting that

with don't resist an evil person.

It is other passages in The Sermon on the Mount he is

contrasting. Hating one's enemy contradicting

that with loving your enemy. So what Jesus taught in The

Sermon on the Mount was new, it was fresh, it had never been

taught before The Sermon on the Mount accomplishes three

masterful purposes and truly making it the greatest sermon

ever preached. Here they are.

This is the reason is the greatest sermon ever preached.

It depicts Jesus Kingdom as spiritual rather than physical.

Number two, it contrasts the Mosaic law with a new law of

Jesus Christ. Number three, it contrast.

The religious hypocrisy of the Pharisees with the qualities of

God's children. The sermon stands as a

masterpiece one. Man said a Wellspring for

countless sermons. No.

Other selection of scripture more aptly.

Depicts the nature of God Than The Sermon on the Mount.

I've often wondered, I don't know about you.

I've often wondered what it must have been like To be there that

day. And then all of a sudden Jesus

just starts preaching. And he goes from one subject to

the next subject to the next subject to the next subject.

And he spot-on, perfect. I don't know what that's like.

No notes, no preparation. Just the son of God.

The greatest one ever. And he just preached.

I've often wondered what it would have been like to sit

there and listen to the words that were coming out of his

mouth. Preaching, the greatest sermon.

Ever preached, you know, this sermon has been appropriately

called the Magna Carta or the document of the Kingdom.

It has been called the manifesto or the Declaration of policy of

the king. It's also been called the

compendium or the concise detailed information of Christ's

Doctrine. And because it seems to come

right after the choosing of the 12.

It is also called his ordination address to them.

But simply put simply put its the greatest sermon ever

preached. To us today.

Because it's the truth. It's just the truth. you know,

sometimes it's really hard, do an introduction and keep it So

it's not boring. I hope I've done that it's hard.

But I felt like we needed to cover as an introduction in a

sermon before we get into the context of what he actually

preached to have a better understanding of what he means,

as he goes through, it's going to take us some time to get

through Matthew, 5, 6 and 7. But this is our sermon today.

The greatest sermon ever preached, the introduction to

The Sermon on the Mount and now we do what we always do.

We never, we never close a service.

After we teach them the word of God without extending an

invitation to somebody that might be subject to the We'll

call an invitation to someone. That's not a Christian that

would like to become one. The steps are very, very simple.

If you want to become a child of God, if you want to be saved,

it's very simple. The Bible says, the first thing

you have to do is hear the word of God, Romans, 10:17.

So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God

upon hearing the word of God. We have a choice to make in

Hebrews 11 and 6. The Bible says, we must believe

with all our heart without faith.

It's impossible to please him for.

He who comes to God, must believe that he is, and that he

is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

Upon hearing the word of God and believing we have something else

we must do to. Also we got to repent of our

sins, acts 17 and 30 truly these times of ignorance, God,

overlooked. But now commands all men

everywhere to repent, all that means is I got to change my

life, hear the word of God, believe in Jesus with all your

heart. Repent, and change your life.

I'm gonna change my life today. Then what are you going to do?

You're going to say the greatest thing you will ever say.

You will confess the Lord Jesus Christ, as the Son of God acts

Acts 8:37

8:37. Then Peter said Philip said, if

you believe with all your heart you made and he answered and

said I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God upon taking

these four steps that we've noticed so far, you're a fit

candidate to go down to the Waters of baptism.

That is the point of salvation. We must be baptized for the

remission of sins, Mark 16:16. He who believes and is baptized,

Mark 16:16

will be saved. But he, who does not believe

will be condemned. If you've never taken these

steps of obedience, You can do that today.

We would love to assist you in that.

Maybe you have. Maybe there are things in your

life that are not what they should be.

Maybe you've straight away. Be a great time to come back.

Just repent of those things. Confess, those things would pray

with you and for you, and God will forgive and restore.

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