The Sermon on the Mount – To be Lived Rather than Admired.
Today I'm preaching on the Sermon on the Mount. All three chapters. Linking it to Jesus invitation, "Take my yoke upon you and learn of me…" The Sermon on the Mount is to be lived, embodied, and the virtuoso of such lived practice is Jesus himself – "Love your enemies" he said. "Father forgive them", he prayed on the cross.
The German scholar Joachim Jeremias described the Sermon as "symptoms, signs, examples of what it means when the Kingdom of God breaks in…You yourselves should be signs of the coming of the Kingdom of God, signs that something has already happened."
Aye. That.
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