Different Discipleship: Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: Training for Service
By Hayes Press and Alan Toms
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Different relationships ... Different priorities .... Different perspectives ... Different standards ... Different actions! A practical and challenging 12-module study complete with questions and prayer prompts on the "Sermon on the Mount" for followers and would-be followers of Jesus. What makes Jesus and his followers "different"? Find out why this revolutionary, life-changing sermon is why Jesus Christ is regarded as one of the world's most important teachers, even by those who don't follow him as their Lord and Saviour.
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Different Discipleship
A Bible Study of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount
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1. INTRO: THE SETTING OF THE SERMON - GEORGE PRASHER JNR.)
2. MODULE 1: HAPPY ARE THE POOR AND MOURNING (MATTHEW 5:1-4) – ALAN TOMS
3. MODULE 2: HAPPY ARE THE MEEK, HUNGRY AND THIRSTY (MATTHEW 5:5-7) – ALAN TOMS
4. MODULE 3: HAPPY ARE THE PERSECUTED, THE PURE AND THE PEACEABLE (MATTHEW 5:8-12) – ALAN TOMS
5. MODULE 4: LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE (MATTHEW 5:13-16) – ALAN TOMS
6. MODULE 5: IN DANGER OF THE HELL OF FIRE (MATTHEW 5:21-37) – BOB ARMSTRONG
7. MODULE 6: TURN THE OTHER CHEEK (MATTHEW 5:38-48) – KEN RILEY
8. MODULE 7: SEEK GOD’S APPROVAL, NOT MAN’S! (MATTHEW 6:1-18) – LINDSAY PRASHER
9. MODULE 8: YOUR HEART IS WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS (MATTHEW 6:19-34) – BRIAN FULLARTON
10. MODULE 9: LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR – ED NEELY
11. MODULE 10: CUT DOWN AND THROWN IN THE FIRE (MATTHEW 7:13-20) – KEITH DORRICOTT
12. MODULE 11: FIRST THINGS FIRST – JOHN MILLER
13. MODULE 12: THE TEACHER WITH UNIQUE AUTHORITY – DON McCUBBIN
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INTRO: THE SETTING OF THE SERMON - GEORGE PRASHER JNR.)
It was Miles Coverdale, hundreds of years ago, who offered this quaint but valuable advice for the clearer understanding of God’s word: It shall greatly help thee to understand Scripture if thou mark not only what is spoken or written: but of whom: and to whom: with what words: at what time: where: with what intent: with what circumstances: considering what goeth before and what followeth after.
Certainly the wonderful discourse of the Lord Jesus recorded in Matthew 5 to 7 calls for this approach. Few parts of the Bible have attracted greater admiration, even from people who have little understanding of God’s Word as a whole. Many who have never experienced the new birth will lift out parts of the Lord’s teaching from these chapters as a good rule of life. Notably they like to quote what they regard as a golden rule: In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you
(Matthew 7:12 NIV). But this casual use of a fragment here and there doesn’t do justice to the tremendous message of the discourse from the lips of our incomparable Teacher, who spoke with divine authority and wisdom.
Its Relationship to the Age of Law
The age or dispensation of the law ran from Moses until Christ. The Lord Jesus was born under the law
(Galatians 4:4). He acknowledged its continuing authority till all things be accomplished
(Matthew 5:18). He Himself magnified the law and made it honourable in His own perfect accomplishment of all it required (Isaiah 42:21). He redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (Galatians 3:13). So when He had died and risen again the age of the law drew to a close, to be followed by the present glorious age of grace, ushered in by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. From that day forward the word was true: you are not under law, but under grace
(Romans 6:14 NIV).
It was, then, in the closing years of the age of law that the Lord Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount.
He was speaking to those under the law, to a Jewish audience in the Palestine of His day. They recognized the Old Testament as God’s living oracles
(Acts 7:38). The Lord firmly upheld them as of divine origin and authority (Matthew 5:17,18) - so much so that to break one of these least commandments
would result in being called least in the kingdom of heaven; but to do and teach them would bring corresponding honour. Moreover, those who claimed to be the custodians and ideal exponents of that law, the scribes and Pharisees, were said to have fallen short of its requirements (Matthew 5:20).
The whole presentation of the Lord’s message on this occasion had regard to Jewish background and spiritual thought. We find glimpses of features so familiar in their experience: the gift brought to the altar (Matthew 5:23); the city of the great King (Matthew 5:35); publicly announced giving to the poor (Matthew 6:2); and hypocrites praying in the streets (Matthew 6:5).
References to the Kingdom of Heaven
These references should also be understood in relation to the outlook of the people to whom the Lord Jesus was speaking. For at that time, the people of Israel where obsessed with the expectation of deliverance from Rome’s political yoke through the setting up of Messiah’s kingdom. Hadn’t Isaiah foretold that of the increase of His government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon His kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with judgement and with righteousness … for ever
? (Isaiah 9:7). Hadn’t Daniel in vision seen the glory of the nation’s promise Messiah - "and there was given Him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom … which shall not pass away (Daniel 7:14)?
So Jewish hopes for future glory lay in that promised messianic kingdom, the kingdom of heaven, the rule of heaven through Messiah in this world. The same outlook is seen in Luke 19:11, when the Lord added the parable of the ten servants and their pounds because they supposed that the kingdom of God was immediately to appear.
While even after the Lord’s resurrection the disciples seemed to be cherishing this hope when they asked Him, … will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?
(Acts 1:6).
A reference to the kingdom of heaven in Matthew 7:21 seems to demand this identification with the future kingdom of Messiah. For the following verses refer to a day of accountability and judgement; in that day some will enter the kingdom of heaven and others will be excluded. This agrees with what the Lord said in Matthew 8:11,12. Many Gentiles will share the blessings of the kingdom of heaven with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but the sons of the kingdom
- those who by natural birth should have had a place there - will be cast out. To what could this apply if not to the future earthly kingdom of Messiah? It’s significant that in the parallel verses in Luke’s gospel (Luke 13:28,29) this is referred to as the kingdom of God. So the millennial kingdom of Christ is described