The Greatest Sermon Ever Preached, Part 1

Father God, we thank you for tonight and a chance to spend

time in Your Word. We are grateful for how it is

you have provided your words in print that we might read them,

memorize them, study them, and get to know you all the more.

We thank you, Lord, for this New year and the opportunity you

give to us to live for you. We trust that Lord, during this

year, 2026, that we would really truly be committed and devoted

to living out the things that we learn and following You in

obedience every single day. We are grateful Lord, for your

salvation. We're grateful for all that

You've done. Open our hearts and minds this

evening to behold the beautiful things out of Your law.

We pray in Jesus name, Amen. I've come to realize the older I

get, the more I remember all that my mother and father said

to me when I was growing up. I kind of wish I would have

remembered him when I was younger, but now that I'm older

and they're with the Lord, I tend to remember more of what

they said now, then, then. And one of my mother's favorite

sayings was, was this. She would say to me, since

you're a child of the king, you need to dress like the child of

the king. She would say, since you're a

child of the king, you need to walk like a child of the king.

You need to talk like a child of the king.

You need to understand that you're a Kingdom citizen and

live in light of that. And she would repeat that over

and over again. Remember, you're a child of the

king, live like a child of the king.

And she understood what the Bible says in Philippians

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chapter 3 when Paul said these words, he said for our

citizenship is in heaven from which also we eagerly wait for a

Savior of the Lord Jesus Christ. She understood that she was a

Kingdom citizen. She also knew what Peter said in

First Peter chapter 2 when he said, beloved, I urge you as

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aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which waves

war against the soul. She knew that we were strangers,

we were aliens in this land. She knew what the Apostle Paul

said in the the book of Colossians when he said that

you've been transferred from the Kingdom of darkness into the

Kingdom of God's dear Son, that there's a Kingdom, and when you

become a Christian you're a child of the king.

Over in Hebrews Chapter 11, it says this is verse #13.

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All these died in faith without receiving the promises, but

having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance

and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the

earth. For those who say such things

make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

And indeed, if they had been thinking of the country from

which they went out, they would have had the opportunity to

return. But as it is, they desire a

better country, that is, a heavenly one.

Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has

prepared a city for them. Those patriarchs of the Old

Testament understood Kingdom citizenship.

They understood that this life was not all there was, but they

were surely just passing through.

They, they understood that they were aliens and strangers and

the land that they were in was a foreign land.

I'm afraid that today as, as Christians, we, we don't like to

be seen as aliens and strangers in this land.

We we want to be welcomed in this land.

We want to be friends of the people of the land.

We don't want to look different, we don't want to act different.

We don't want to speak different.

We just want to blend in with everybody else.

But the Lord has always made it very clear from the very

beginning that His people have been called out to be

completely, uniquely and distinctly different than the

people of the world. In fact, if you got your Bible,

turn back with me, if you would, to the book of Leviticus.

The book of Leviticus, the theme of this book is holiness.

Be holy, for I am holy, says the Lord.

That means that you are separate, uniquely different.

You are set apart. So the whole theme of the book

of Leviticus was God's blueprint for His people that would set

them apart from the world. In Leviticus 18 verse #1 it

says, Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the sons

of Israel, and say to them, I am the Lord your God.

You shall not do what is done in the land of Egypt where you

lived, nor are you to do what is done in the land of Canaan where

I am bringing you. You should not walk in their

statutes. You are to perform my judgments

and keep my statutes to live in accord with them.

I am the Lord your God, so you shall keep my statutes and my

judgments by which a man may live if he does them.

I am the Lord. The Lord brackets what he says

with his identity. I am the Lord God.

I am the king of all. You are not to live like those

in Egypt. You're not to live like those in

Canaan. You were to follow My statutes.

You are to be different. You are not to be like them.

And then if you follow through to the book of Deuteronomy in

chapter 6, Moses says this in verse #10 Then it shall come

about when the Lord your God brings you into the land which

He swore to your father's Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to

give you great and splendid cities which you did not build,

and houses full of good things which you did not fill, and hewn

cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which

you did not plant. And you eat and are satisfied.

Then watch yourself that you do not forget the Lord who brought

you from the land of Egypt out of the House of slavery.

You shall fear only the Lord your God, and you shall worship

him and swear by his name. You shall not follow other gods,

any of the gods of the peoples who surround you, for the Lord

your God in the midst of you is a jealous God.

Otherwise the anger of the Lord your God will be kindled against

you, and he shall or he will wipe you off the face of the

earth. Moses was serious.

When you follow the Lord and you worship the Lord you, you can't

worship and serve any other gods.

You've been called out of slavery.

You've been called out of Egypt. You have been delivered, you

have been redeemed by your God. You can't be like the people of

the world, even though you live in houses that you did not build

and you drink from sisters that you did not dig, and you are

able to have the fruit of the vine, but you did not plant you.

You cannot be like the people in the land of Canaan.

But Israel had a hard time with that.

They had a very difficult time with that.

They loved to be like the people of the world.

And so when you come to the book of first Samuel, chapter 8,

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listen to the words of the Lord, verse 4.

Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to

Samuel at Rama. And they said to him, Behold,

you have grown old and your sons do not walk in your ways.

Now appoint a king for us to judge us.

Next phrase. Like all the nations.

We want a king like all the nations have.

We want to be like the other nations.

But the thing was displeasing in the sight of Samuel, when they

said, Give us a king to judge us.

And Samuel prayed to the Lord. And the Lord said to Samuel,

Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that

they say to you. For they have not rejected you,

but they have rejected me from being king over them, like all

the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought

them from Egypt, even to this day, and that they have forsaken

me and served other gods, So they are doing to you also.

Now then, listen to their voice. However, you shall solemnly warn

them and tell them of the procedure of the king who will

reign over them. So the Lord says to Samuel, He

says, look, this is not about you.

Don't take it personally, Samuel.

They're not rejecting you, they're rejecting me.

They don't want me as their king, that they want an earthly

king. They don't want a heavenly king.

So don't take it personally, Samuel.

It's about me that they have rejected.

So give them what they want, but tell them, warn them about what

this king will do. So Samuel does.

He tells them exactly what the king would do.

And verses 10 down through verse #18 it says, in fact, verse #17

or yeah, excuse me, verse #17 He says He will take a tenth of

your flocks, and you yourselves will become His servants.

Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom

you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you

in that day. He gives them all the negatives

about this earthly king and tells them we're not going to

like it and you're going to cry out to the Lord, but he's not

going to answer you. So you would think they would

say, then we don't want that. Oh no.

Verse 19 Nevertheless, the people refuse to listen to the

voice of Samuel. And they said, no, but there

shall be a king over us that we also may be like all the

nations, that our king may judge us and go out before us and

fight our battles. We we want to be like all the

other nations. We want a king that will fight

for us. The Lord of armies isn't isn't

strong enough. The King of Israel isn't mighty

enough. We need an earthly king to to

fight our battles for us. After all that God had done for

them, after he led them to the wilderness, after he delivered

them in a miraculous way by separating the Red Sea, and then

able to walk through on dry land and all the miracles that God

did. It just wasn't sufficient.

We want to be like all the other nations.

We want a king to rule over us. So in Psalm One O 6, when the

psalmist is reviewing Israel's history, he says in verse #35

They mingled with the nations and learned their practices and

served their idols, which became a snare to them.

They became just like the nations of the world.

Read on. It says they even sacrificed

their sons and their daughters to the demons and shed innocent

blood. The blood of their sons and

their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of

Canaan, and the land was polluted with the blood.

Thus, they became unclean in their practices and play the

harlot in their deeds. Therefore, the anger of the Lord

was kindled against His people, and He abhorred his inheritance.

God warned them, but they did not listen.

Because God has always told His people you're mine, and because

you're mine, you can't act and be like everyone else who was

not mine. You must be uniquely and

distinctly different from them. That's why Peter says you're

aliens and strangers in a foreign land.

So by the writer of Hebrews said the fathers, the patriarchs knew

that this was a land they were strangers in, but there was a

city beyond that they live for. That's why Paul said in quoting

the Old Testament in Second Corinthians chapter 6, said

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verse 17. Therefore come out from their

midst and be separate, says the Lord, and do not touch what is

unclean. And I will welcome you.

To be holy means to be separate, to come out from among them.

And so the Lord says in the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew

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chapter 6, verse #8 you shall not be like them.

He's speaking about the religious leaders.

You can't be like them because they're hypocrites.

They live a life of duplicity. They live a life of hypocrisy.

You can't be like them. In Matthew 5 verse #20 He says

these words. Unless your righteousness

exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you cannot be a part

of my Kingdom. And the people listening to that

would think, well, how can that possibly be?

The Pharisees are so religious. They dress like they're

religious, they pray like they're religious, They look

like they're religious. They speak like they're

religious. And you're telling us that

unless our righteousness exceeds their righteousness, we can

never enter the Kingdom of God. How can that possibly be?

Because their righteousness was based on human achievement.

God's righteousness is based on divine accomplishment.

That's why you could say that. And so in Matthews 5-6 and

seven, our Lord tells the people how to live like a child of the

king, how to understand Kingdom citizenship.

After all, he, he's the king. And the king came preaching

about the Kingdom. In fact, that's all he preached

about was the Kingdom. John the Baptist, the

forerunner, would preach about the Kingdom of heaven.

It was at hand when the king, king, he began to preach, and

he's preached the same message that John the Baptist preached,

that the Kingdom of heaven was at hand.

And so as he began to preach, Matthews 5-6 and seven, tell us

about some of the elements that would be in the sermons that

Jesus would preach as he went from village to village, from

town to town, preaching the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.

And when you come to the Sermon on the Mount, Matthews 5-6 and

seven, you have a record of the greatest sermon ever preached by

the greatest preacher who has ever lived, Jesus Christ our

Lord. And so we have the the blessed

opportunity to spend the rest of this portion of the year through

the springtime, into the fall, and probably even into next

year, 2027, examining this great sermon, Matthews 5-6 and seven,

commonly called the Sermon on the Mount.

You can read it in about 10 to 20 minutes, depending on how

fast you read. And there have been many

commentaries written on Matthews 5-6 and seven, many books

written, many devotional books written about this sermon.

It's filled with so much. In fact, more is said in these

three chapters than most preachers say.

In a lifetime of sermons, this is the greatest sermon ever

preached. And Christ is the greatest

preacher whoever preached. And so therefore we need to

understand exactly what he said and why he said it and how he

said it. So we, we've given you an

outline you can follow along with us.

It's basically three simple points.

It begins with the purpose of the sermon, then the preface to

the sermon, and then we'll give you some principles about the

sermon as way of a introduction to.

The Sermon on the Mount. We'll begin by reading Matthew

Matthew 5:1

chapter 5, verses 1 and 2. When Jesus saw the crowds, he

went up on the mountain, and after he sat down, his disciples

came to him. He opened his mouth and began to

teach them. It would be so great to have

been there on that day, to hear Jesus speak to large crowds of

people without a microphone, and to be able to speak to them so

they could all hear what he had to say on that day.

But there was a purpose behind what he said, and it begins with

the fact that he was going to identify the identity of those

who are citizens of His Kingdom. That's why it begins with the

Beatitudes, with blessing. And when he begins to speak

about blessing, he says that in a way that is contrary to what

we would say, a person who was blessed would be like.

He says the poor, not the rich, are blessed.

And you think, well, that's opposite of a child of the king.

Children of the king are rich, but he says blessed are those

who are poor children of the king.

They, they laugh, but not according to this sermon.

They mourn. Children of the king are

warriors. Well, not according to this

sermon. They're meek, they're gentle,

they're peacemakers. Children of the king are

protected. Not in this sermon.

They're persecuted, they're reviled against, so much so that

all men speak evil against them. But what Jesus does is he begins

to help you understand the character of Kingdom citizenship

by identifying the identity of the people who enter the Kingdom

and grow up in the Kingdom in those first 12 verses.

Then after he identifies the identity of those in the

Kingdom, he articulates the authority of those in the

Kingdom by saying that they are salt and they are light.

Other words, their salt and as salt they will preserve

corruption as light, they will proclaim the solution, giving

them the authority that comes as a Kingdom citizen.

So he interprets their identity, he articulates their authority

and then he says the people of my Kingdom manifest a specific

morality. That is they follow the law of

God. They understand the laws of God

because I didn't come to abolish the law.

I came to fulfill the law. And therefore in fulfillment of

the law, they understand who I am and they want to follow me.

They want to serve me, and they become Kingdom citizens.

And therefore they, they follow the laws as they're prescribed.

And as He begins to to show how how they manifest his morality,

he is showing to them that as he speaks, he says, you have heard

that it was said by the ages of old.

But but I say unto you, in other words, this is what you have

heard from your scribes and from your Pharisees.

But I saying to you, this is the way it is you.

You have heard that it was said, you shall not murder, and thus

you should not murder. But he says, But I say to you,

If you hate your brother in your heart, you're already a

murderer. He says, you have heard that it

was said, you shall not commit adultery, and thus you should

not commit adultery. But he says, I say unto you that

if you look after a woman and lust for her in your heart, you

have already committed adultery on the inside.

So He begins to help them understand the issue of morality

and how it applies to Kingdom citizens when it comes to

murder, adultery, love, and reaching out to others that they

might begin to realize that Kingdom citizens live by a

different set of standards than those outside the Kingdom.

And then He says these words, He says in Matthew chapter 5 verse

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#20 again, unless your righteousness exceeds that of

the scribes and Pharisees, they'll never enter the Kingdom

of heaven. He talks about Jeremiah 31 and

how the Lord will be, how the law of God will be written on

the hearts of His people, that they might want to follow the

truth of God's word. And that's what God does.

His children long to follow Him. So the purpose of the sermon is

to #1 interpret the identity of Kingdom citizens, articulate the

authority of Kingdom citizens, manifest the morality of Kingdom

citizens. And then he prescribes the

piety, the religious devotion of Kingdom citizens when it comes

to giving, when it comes to praying, when it comes to

fasting, says when it comes to giving, Kingdom citizens give

secretly. When it when it comes to to

fasting, Kingdom citizens do it sincerely.

And when it comes, when it comes to praying, Kingdom citizens do

it with simplicity. And so he sets Kingdom citizens

apart from everybody else when it comes to religious devotion

because there's something unique and distinctly different in

their worship compared to the way the world worships.

And then he goes on and portrays the priority of Kingdom citizens

in Matthew 6, verses 19 to 24 by helping them understand that

Matthew 6:19–24

they are the ones who who seek the Kingdom 1st and the

righteousness of God first. They don't serve God and serve

money. They serve the Lord God of

Israel. They don't worry about what

they're going to wear or what they're going to eat or what

they're going to drink because they have a Father in heaven who

takes care of them, a Father in heaven who clothes them.

They don't worry about what the world worries about.

The world worries about those kinds of things.

But Kingdom citizens, they don't worry about those kinds of

things because they have a God in heaven who takes care of

them. And so He portrays the priority

of Kingdom citizens. And then he reveals

responsibility of Kingdom citizens when it comes to their

fellow citizens, when it comes to their Father in heaven, and

when it comes to false prophets. And then he defines the duty of

Kingdom citizens as he closes out Matthew Chapter 7.

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They build on rock, not sand. They obey the words of the Lord.

And so you have an overview of the sermon and all that's going

to be covered over the next several months.

And when you come to the end in Matthew Chapter 7, it says in

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verse 28, when Jesus had finished these words, the crowds

were amazed at His teaching, for He was teaching them as one

having authority and not as the scribes.

They were amazed. But note, there were no

conversions. Nobody gave their life to

Christ. Nobody rose up and said, yeah, I

want to be a Kingdom citizen. I'm all in.

No, the greatest sermon ever preached by the greatest

preacher, whoever lived. And there were no conversions as

recorded in the Scriptures. But yet they were amazed at what

he said, because he spoke as no other rabbi had ever spoken.

He didn't quote anybody. He just quoted himself.

He just said what is true. He spoke with such authority.

He marvelled at all that He said.

So let's move from the purpose of the sermon to the preface to

the sermon. In chapter one of our verse 1 of

chapter 5, it says when Jesus saw the crowds, who were these

people who were in the crowd? We'll go back up to verse #24 it

says the news about Him spread throughout all Syria.

They brought to Him all who were I'll those suffering in various

diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics, and He

healed them. Large crowds followed Him from

Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from

beyond the Jordan. These are the multitudes.

These are people that have been healed.

They could not see, but now they can.

They could not walk, but now, now they can.

They had all kinds of diseases during the earthly ministry of

Jesus. He, he pretty much banished all

disease, all sickness, all illness from the land of Israel

because he was the Messiah. Those were the credentials of

the Messiah. And so he's healing all these

people. Sure enough, they're going to

follow him. Sure enough, they're going to be

right on his tail. They're going to tell other

people, look what Jesus did to me.

Come see what he has to say, see what he's going to do next.

And people would begin to follow.

The crowds begin to balloon and grow increasingly every single

day. These are are the multitudes

next the mountain. When Jesus saw the crowds, he

went up on the mountain. The mountain.

It was just a mountain until Jesus made it the mountain.

Why? Because it was just another hill

on the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee until Jesus preached the

Sermon and then it became the mountain.

Now no one knows where this is. I've been to Israel and, and

there is a place there where the Catholics have built a, a church

there on the North Shore, the Sea of Galilee.

And they say this is where the Sermon of the Mount was

preached. We don't know that it, it could

be, it could not be. There is no guarantee that that

is the hill that Jesus spoke from.

I've been there, I've seen it, but that doesn't mean it's the

place. But whatever the place is, it

was the mountain in which Jesus would address these people from.

And because of the sermon that He preached and the impact that

it was upon the multitudes and all that He had done, it became

the mountain. Next, I want you to see the

manners in which He spoke. It says when He went to the

mountain, His disciples came to him, but He sat down.

It says he sat down in Latin. It's called ex cathedra from the

chair. In Catholicism, when the Pope

speaks with, as they would say, infallibility, he sits ex

cathedra from the chair. When rabbis would teach, they

would teach sitting down. Sometimes I wish I could teach

sitting down, but they would teach sitting down because that

would mean they were speaking with authority.

When they stood up, they, they had conversations.

When they stood up, they, they would discuss different things.

But formal teaching, formal authority came when the rabbi

sat down. Jesus went up into the mountain

and he sat down because He was speaking with great authority as

the King of His Kingdom. Then note the message.

It says He opened his mouth and began to teach them.

He opened his mouth and began to teach them.

And the message is so important because you see, He knew that

the only way to true blessing was not because of your physical

healing, but your spiritual healing.

Jesus knew that all those people he healed, they're still going

to die. They're going to get old,

they're going to get decrepit, and they're going to die.

And the physical healing was only temporary, temporary,

temporary. But the spiritual healing that

would be eternal, that would be forever because it would deal

with the soul of a man, the soul of a woman.

And in Christ wanted to know that as he opened his mouth and

began to speak, the words that he would give them would be the

source of eternal life. As he began to speak, he would

be able to portray to them to the truths of of eternal life

and help them understand that He's the king and the people in

my Kingdom are children of the King, and they live as Kingdom

citizens. And this is how they live their

lives. And this is where the true

blessing comes from. They thought that they were

blessed because they felt better.

They thought they were blessed because they could see.

They thought they were blessed because they can walk and run.

They thought they were blessed because those who were dumb can

now speak. They thought they were blessed

because those who are demon possessed were set free.

But it was just a foretaste of true blessing because true

blessing came on the inside through the healing of a man's

soul. That's why it's so important to

understand this sermon and what it means to you and me today.

So from the purpose of the sermon to the preface of the

sermon, to the principles of the sermon, 4 things are going to

happen over the next several months in your life.

When you begin to understand Kingdom citizenship, when you

begin to understand what does it mean to be a child of the king

and to follow the word of the Lord, 4 things are going to

happen #1 you will be blessed, you will live the blessed life.

That's what Jesus says 9 times. Blessed, blessed, blessed,

blessed. Blessing comes from what Jesus

says. And the word is macario comes

from the word macar. It's a state of blissfulness, a

state of, of, of joy. It's a state of contentment.

It's, it's, it's that inner peace.

It's the inner contentment. It's the inner joy that's not

depended upon anything circumstantial.

That's not dependent upon anything on the outside because

it's all happening on the inside.

That's what Macario is. And so Christ is talking about

true blessing, true joy, true contentment, the blessing, the

blessing that characterizes God because it's a phrase used of

the Lord. Psalm 68, verse #35 says blessed

be God. Psalm 7218 blessed be the Lord

God, the God of Israel. Psalm 11912 Blessed art thou, O

Lord. First Timothy 6:15 He is that is

1 Timothy 6:15

Christ the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and

Lord of Lords. In other words, you receive as a

believer, you become a partaker of the divine nature, and if God

is the blessed God, then you become the blessed as God's

children because you're a partaker of divine nature.

And the Lord is not dependent on anything externally to suffice

him to satisfy him. Doesn't need all that.

And when you become a believer, you realize the things around

you don't mean nearly as much as it did before, because what

happens on the inside of a man, the soul of a man, changes

everything. So over the next several weeks,

as we go through the Beatitudes, you, you're going to begin to

understand the blessed life. Society says if you want to be

happy, you're going to be joyful.

Then you, you, you got to, you got to have the right girl.

You got to have the right guy, you got to live in the right

house, you got to drive the right kind of car, you got to

have a certain amount of income. And Jesus says that man's life

does not consist of the abundance of things which he

possesses. He says don't be like them.

You must be uniquely and distinctly different from the

world. But we find ourselves always

targeting the world. What do they have?

What can we have? How can we be like them so we

can be joyous, so we can be happy, so we can be fulfilled?

Yet Kingdom citizens, they are uniquely and distinctly

different. Even Solomon, who had gardens

galore, who had parks, houses, temples, women, silver as the

sand of the sea, gold, intellect, wisdom, knowledge, he

was a king, said all that was vanity, all that was empty.

It doesn't mean anything. And if Solomon says it and he

had it all, why can't we believe him?

But we don't. We still want more.

We want more money. What?

Bigger houses, bigger cars, we went finer clothes.

We, we, we just think if we have a little bit more here or a

little bit more there, we'll, we'll finally be happy.

No, because it's not dependent upon circumstances.

On the outside. It's all about the Christ.

On the inside. That's where true blessing

comes. And the Beatitudes, the Sermon

on the Mount will teach you the blessed life.

It will also teach you about the baffled life.

In other words, your life will be absolutely bewildering and

baffling to everybody around you because you won't be like them.

You won't act like them. You will be uniquely and

distinctly different. Then then, then they will be

quite perplexed. Why?

Because in your realm, misery is the key to happiness.

In their realm it's not. Being poor is the key to being a

child of the King, but in their mind it's not.

In fact, even though the people were amazed at what Christ said,

because he spoke like no one else, no one wanted to follow

him. Nobody wanted to bless life that

He offered. Why?

Because they didn't believe that that was the key to happiness.

They didn't believe that that was the the route to to joy and

contentment. That they were happy, just that

they had been healed, that they were happy, that they were just

better. And now they felt better.

Now that they looked better, everything was fine.

They didn't need what Christ offered them, but He offered it

anyway because He always preached the truth.

And when you study the sermon and you apply the sermon, you

live the blessed life. And the blessed life is the most

baffling life to those around you.

They will not understand what makes you tick.

They will not understand that you don't have the same desires

and passions that they have the same drive that they have, That

when you seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness,

because that's your priority, everything else will be added

unto you. But you have a priority to seek

first God's Kingdom, not your own Kingdom where the people

around you are all trying to build their little kingdoms.

Why? Because they are their own king.

They don't want to serve the true king.

That's why later on in the ministry in Luke chapter 19, the

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people would say we will not have that king rule over us.

Why? Because that king had a

different criteria than they appreciated, had a different

standard than they believed in. The third thing is that you will

end up living the beautiful life.

Why? Because it's the life of Christ.

This is his life. This is who he is.

This is how he, he lived his life.

He, he didn't come to abolish the law.

He came to fulfill the law and then fulfilling the law, He

embodied everything that the law required.

And, and he says in Matthew chapter 5 verse #48 be perfect

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even as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Strive to live the life that Christ wants you to live.

And because he lived that life, you've been following your

master, your king. Live his life and that becomes

the most beautiful life there is.

Doctor Richard Albertson in his book No Holiness, No Heaven,

says this. God calls us not the happiness,

but the holiness. Of course, to be holy is a

necessity also to be happy. But we are to seek after

holiness. If we seek happiness, we should

get neither that nor holiness. And he's right.

God wants us to be holy like him.

That's the beautiful life. It's the beauty of Christ life

in you and through you. So listening to the sermon,

applying the sermon, following through on what Christ says, you

live the blessed life. The blessed life is the most

baffling life there is because it's totally contrary to the

world, and yet it is the most beautiful life there is.

And fourthly, you'll end up living the bold life, the strong

life, because of the boldness of what is said.

When you apply those things to your life, you become strong.

You become the strength of all those round about you.

You become bold in character, bold in conversation, bold in

all the things that you do, and you live a a bold and strong and

wonderful life. And let me add another one.

You really will live the born again life.

For this truly is a sermon about how to be born again, how to

enter the Kingdom of heaven. Blessed are the poor in spirit,

for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.

It's all about being born again. It's all about having new life

in Christ. The born again life is the

beautiful life. The born again life is the bold

life. The born again life is the

blessed life. The born again life.

Life is the most baffling life to the unbeliever because it's

totally contrary to anything they could think of.

So let me say it to you this way.

I shared this with the the women yesterday at the Women's Bible

Study. But let's say that every time

you came to church, you received $100.

So you're here tonight and we're going to give you $100.

There's a good chance you'll be back next Wednesday night

because next Wednesday night we'd give you another $100.

You come on Sundays, we we'll give you $200.

But if you came and received a hundred spot or 200 bucks, you'd

be sure to come back next Wednesday and next Sunday and

the following Sunday and the following Wednesday.

In fact, you'd probably even be on time.

Why is that? Because you'd be inviting your

friends to come with you. You come to our church, we're

going to give you 100 bucks. Really.

I'm going. You come on Sunday, we give you

200 bucks. I'm I'm there, pick me up.

I'm coming with you. If we did that within a week's

time, there would be no room for you to sit on Wednesdays and or

Sundays. People would be on the outside

looking in wanting to be in here because knowing that if they

were in here, they would receive 100 bucks or 200 bucks depending

upon Wednesday or Sunday. So having said that, listen to

the words of our Lord. The law of your mouth is better

to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and

silver pieces. In verse 127 of Psalm 119, the

psalmist says, I love your commandments above gold.

Yes, above fine gold. When you come, we offer you

something better than $100. Amen.

We offer you something better than $200.

We offer you something better than gold.

We give you the bread of life. We give you the word of the

living God, which is more valuable than anything else, is

more precious than anything else.

Think about that. Why isn't that enough to

motivate us to come? You know why?

Because we value money and gold and silver pieces more than we

value the Word of God. We don't value the Word of God

nearly like we should, but the psalmist knew, the psalmist

understood that the words of the mouth coming, the words coming

out of the mouth of our Lord, are so valuable that he didn't

want to miss a one of them. He loved them so much, they were

more valuable to him than anything earthly.

And so you, we ask ourselves the question, why is it we don't say

to people, come with me because we're going to give you

something more valuable than gold, more valuable than silver,

more valuable than thousands of pieces of gold.

We're going to give you the bread of life.

We're going to feed you the bread of life.

We're going to feed you that which is absolutely sustainable

for all eternity, but yet people still don't come.

Why is that? It's because they do not value

the word of the Lord. It doesn't mean that much to

them. All the people were amazed at

the words of Jesus, but they did not heed the words of Jesus.

They weren't that valuable to them.

This auditorium should be filled on Wednesdays and Sundays

because when you come, you get something better than thousands

of pieces of gold and silver. You get the word of the living

God. But you see, for most people

that just is not sufficient. It's just not enough for them.

There's something more valuable to them than the word of the

Lord. That's why they are not here.

But through this sermon, Matthews 5-6 and seven, you will

see the value of truth, the value of the word of God, how

important it is to our lives to apply, to memorize, to live,

because it gives you true blessing, true beauty, true

boldness, like nothing ever, because it comes from the living

and abiding word of God. Let's pray, Father, we thank

you, Lord, for tonight. A brief moment you give us to

spend in your word and we thank you Lord, for how it is we can

study it in the middle of the week.

My prayer is for everyone in the room that Lord you would do a

mighty work in their heart and life, that they would see the

value of the truth of God, how it applies to them and how it is

they can live in accordance to it.

And pray, Lord, for those who come who might not even know

you, that Lord, you would come into their hearts and save their

souls, that they might truly follow You and live with us,

truly the greatest of all lives, the life as a child of the King.

Help us to understand Kingdom living, Kingdom citizenship.

Help us come to grips with the fact that you are the King, and

the King has spoken, and we as your subjects bow before you in

adoration, thanking you for all that you say and all that you do

in Jesus name, Amen.