Season 2 Podcast 87 The Sermon on the Mount Pt II
The Sermon on the Mount Pt II
The Sermon on the Mount is talking about members of Christ’s church. To even build the house one must first accept Christ as their personal Savior. The Sermon on the Mount is an echo of the Parable of the Ten Virgins and of the Parable of the Talents, and the Parable of the good Samaritan. In fact, it embodies all the parables of Christ. All of Christ’s teachings point back to the Sermon on the Mount. In fact, a close analysis will show that everything else in the Holy Scriptures are subordinate to the Sermon the Mount. They teach you how to become perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. God lives in the third heaven spoken of by Paul. That is the end goal of everything. God wants you to have all that he has to give. To do that you too must go to the third heaven where God and Christ are, or as the Savior put it, you must inherit the kingdom of God.
What are the rains? The floods? And the winds? They are the fiery darts of the wicked; they are the mortal distractions; they are the wiles of the Devil.
What are the Beatitudes? They are the full armor of God. They are all the teachings of Christ.
What is the end goal? The end goal is to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven and to become perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.
That image occurs through the Sermon on the Mount: “lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.” “Seek first the kingdom of heaven,” In Revelation we read, “Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.” (Revelation 22: 14) Notice that it is written as a Beatitude, a commandment with a promise. Only those who do his commandments have right to the tree of life and the tree of life is the Kingdom of God. The city is the New Jerusalem.
What is the End product? You will be made perfect by Christ even as your Father in Heaven is Perfect? Christ is willing to give you all he has just as his Father gave him all that he had. It is the same.
Now we know what to expect with the rest of the Sermon on the Mount. They will expand and explain the Beatitudes in greater detail. It is the same for all the other teachings of the prophets in the Holy Scriptures. Since it is impractical for me to discuss all of them, you are of course encouraged to study not only the Sermon on the Mount, but all the teachings of Christ as contained in the Holy Scriptures because every one of them reverts back to the Sermon on the Mount and helps you become perfect even as your Father in Heaven is Perfect.
As we think of the birth of Christ, may we all make Christ the center of our lives as Christ made the Father the center of his life. We owe a debt to the Father and the Son that we can never repay.
John 3:16 is a Christmas message to all of us:
“6 ¶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” (John 3:16-17)
Though we must meet the conditions of the atonement by striving to keep the commandments of God, we consider the grace of Christ as a free gift because we can never repay. Though he required perfection of himself, he doesn’t require perfection of us. He requires only that we strive with all our hearts to obey his will and keep his commandments and endure to the end.
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