The Sermon on the Mount: Living in the Kingdom of Heaven --- Lesson #3

John Sullivan (FBC Trustee + Deacon) - Matthew 1:19-23; 2:4-6, 14-18 & 23; 5:3-20; Isaiah 7:10-16; 11:1; Micah 5:2; Hosea 11:1; Jeremiah 31:15; Galatians 3:23

 

The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) is the longest recorded teaching of Jesus, and the most important. Throughout this series, we'll look at the Sermon as the foundation of what Jesus thought, believed, and taught, and ask how we ought to live because of what it says.

The Sermon on the Mount
"Living in the Kingdom of Heaven"

Lesson #3

I. Wrapping Up the Beatitudes
View 1: Entrance requirements
View 2: A description of character
View 3: An invitation to wisdom

II. Salt and Light
Principal 1: Actions Matter
Principal 2: What you do, do to glorify the Father

III. Fulfilling the law and the prophets
Question 1: What does "fulfillment" mean in Matthew?
Answer: Different things at different times
Question 2: What does it mean to "fulfill" the law and the prophets?
Answer 1: The law was our schoolmaster
Answer 2: The transformation of the law in the Sermon on the Mount