
The Mount: The Good Life
January 12, 2025
Matthew 5-7
What do these quotes have in common? **
• “Go the extra mile”
• “Give them the shirt off their back”
• “Judge not lest you be judged”
• “Do to others as you would have them do to you”
• “Don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing”
They all come from
“The Sermon on the
“After nineteen hundred years the Sermon on the Mount still haunts men. They may praise it, as Mahatma Gandhi did; or like Nietzsche, they may curse it. They cannot ignore it. Its words are winged words, quick and powerful to rebuke, to challenge, to inspire. And though some turn from it in despair, it continues, like some mighty magnetic mountain, to attract to itself the greatest spirits of our race (many not Christians), so that if some world-wide vote were taken, there is little doubt that men would account it “the most searching and powerful utterance we possess on what concerns the moral life.” (Archibald Hunter in “A Pattern for Life: Exposition on the Sermon on the Mount)
What should the Sermon on the Mount make us feel?
- Feel
The Sermon on the Mount shows us what we really are, not what we imagine ourselves to be.**
- Feel
The Sermon on the Mount isn’t about the life you ought to live. It is about the life you were meant to live!
- Feel
Disciples
Bronze Challenge – Each week read the passage for the next sermon
1. January 19 – Matthew 5:3-16
2. January 26 – Matthew 5:21-32
3. February 2 – Matthew 5:43-48
4. February 16 – Matthew 6:1-18
5. February 23 – Matthew 6:19-34
6. March 2 – Matthew 6:5-15
7. March 9 – Matthew 7:1-6
8. March 16 – Matthew 7:7-11
9. March 23 – Matthew 7:12
10. April 6 – Matthew 7:13-14
11. April 13 – Matthew 7:24-27
Silver Challenge – Once a week, read Matthew 5-7 in one sitting
Gold Challenge – Once a day, read part of Matthew 5-7
1. Matthew 5:1-16
2. Matthew 5:17-30
3. Matthew 5:31-48
4. Matthew 6:1-15
5. Matthew 6:19-34
6. Matthew 7:1-14
7. Matthew 7:15-29