Jesus teaches as the listens in
The Sermon on the Mount: Matthew 4:23-5:2 through 7:28-29
Under these circumstances, after so many thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another, He began saying to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. – Luke 12:1 (NASB)
Jesus’ objective is to make from the
Promise to
Jesus began to speak to the crowds…“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
– Matthew 11:7-28 (NASB95)
Promises to
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. “My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. – John 15:7-8 (NASB95)
How to Become a Disciple
And He summoned the multitude with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. – Mark 8:34 (NASB77)
A Disciple makes other
Therefore go and make disciples in all the nations… – Matthew 28:19
The Sermon on the Plain/Mount from Luke:
Luke’s version of the Sermon on the Mount is
Matthew and Luke give the not the sermon
Matthew has Beatitudes, Luke has Beatitudes
Luke the parts (interpretations of the Law)
…it was said to our ancestors, Do not murder, – Matthew 5:21 (HCSB)
Matthew knew and wrote it down
Matthew writes as an , Luke from
I myself have carefully investigated everything – Luke 1:3 (NIV)
The differences are not
Speaking to Disciples so salvation is
Then looking up at his disciples, he said: Blessed
(Beati – Latin, Makarios – Greek) are you who are poor, because the kingdom of God is yours. – Luke 6:20 (CSB)
Jesus is the of the Beatitudes
Blessed: A state of existence in relationship to God in which a person is “blessed” from even when he or she doesn’t feel happy or isn’t experiencing good fortune (NIV Life App Commentary)
Greek: Blessed – Makarios, supremely blest; by extension, fortunate, well off (OTESD)
(v.20)
Blessed are those who are not
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. – Matthew 5:3 (NASU)
Poor in spirit: i.e., those who are not spiritually arrogant (NASU)
Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.
– 2 Corinthians 1:24 (ESV)
Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake, 30but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms (), along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life. 31But many who are first will be last, and the last, first.” – Mark 10:29-31 (NASB)
Hungering for righteousness is (v. 21)
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. – Matthew 5:6 (NASB 2020)
(v.21)
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. – Matthew 5:4 (NASB)
(vv.22-23)
And indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. – 2 Timothy 3:12-13 (NASB77)
The focus of the Disciple is (vv. 20-23)