Elements City Church
Sermon on the Mount - Week 10 - Judgment According to Jesus
The Sermon on the Mount is the most famous sermon Jesus ever preached. It derives its name from the place where Jesus preached it; a mountainside that acted as a natural amphitheater along the shores of Galilee. The Sermon on the Mount, preached to ordinary people, covers a wide range of topics like prayer, fasting, money, worry, forgiveness, anger, lust, judging others, and more. But the theme that unites it all is Jesus explaining the heart of God behind His given Law. It is one of the most challenging biblical texts to interpret properly because the Sermon goes far deeper than promoting external obedience to God’s moral imperatives or simple behavior modification. Every line of the Sermon goes to the heart of discipleship. The Sermon offers a clear understanding of what a blessed life that is pleasing to God looks like from the inside out. What Jesus taught often runs counter to mainstream thinking, but every lesson is brimming with heavenly wisdom and practical instruction that leads us into a flourishing life.
Locations & Times
Elements City Church
1825 N Alvernon Way, Tucson, AZ 85712, USA
Sunday 5:00 PM
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- Jonathan T. Pennington
Beatitudes (Matt 5:1-12)
Salt and Light (5:13-16)
How to Have Kingdom Righteousness in Following the Law (5:17-48)
How to Have Kingdom Righteousness in Practicing Your Faith (6:1-21)
How to Have Kingdom Righteousness with Your Possessions (6:19-34)
Next two weeks:
How to Have Kingdom Righteousness in Relationships (7:1-12)
1. Translation
It is an unfortunate turn in current English that the main, if not exclusive, [thought] that, "judge" creates in hearers is only the narrower, latter sense of the negative condemnation. This then distorts our sense of what justice is about — it is not just condemnation for the bad, but restoration of what is right, with its necessary good and bad consequences distributed accordingly.
Jonathan T. Pennington
1. Translation
2. Totalization
Leon Morris
When there's evidence of the Fruit of the Spirit in a person's life
1. Build yourselves up in the faith
2. Pray in the Spirit
3. Keep yourselves in God’s love
4. Wait for the mercy of Jesus’ return
5. Show mercy in all situations
Assume positive intent
(regardless which side you’re on!)
Craig Groeschel
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Join us next week as we continue our series in the Sermon on the Mount.
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