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Interpreting the Sermon on the Mount

by Michael Brent

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    September 4, 2025 · 54 min

    In Matthew 7:13-29 Jesus concludes the Sermon on the Mount with a call to decision. It is an invitation, a challenge and a warning. Every human being has a choice to make. And that choice is about Jesus. What is the narrow way? And who do…

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    September 4, 2025 · 55 min

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  • Matthew 6:19-34 Kingdom Priority

    September 4, 2025 · 55 min

    In Matthew 6:19-34 we are challenged to ask, “What do I really want out of life?” Jesus uses a series of deceptively simple metaphors that urge us to reorient our lives around heavenly treasure. And he tells us why seeking first the…

  • Matthew 6:7-15 Kingdom Piety 2

    September 4, 2025 · 58 min

    In Matthew 6:7-15 Jesus further develops his exhortation on genuine prayer. Known as “the Lord’s prayer” and as “the Our Father”, this is not a prayer given us to pray word for word. This is a model of prayer guiding us in the way we…

  • Matthew 6:1-6 and 16-18 Kingdom Piety 1

    September 2, 2025 · 52 min

    In Matthew 6:1-6 and 16-18, Jesus shifts from loving our neighbor to loving our God, a shift from public spiritual life that ought to be seen, to private spiritual life that ought not be seen. Jesus now exhorts us to acts of devotion that…

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  • Matthew 5:33-48 Kingdom Commandments 2

    September 2, 2025 · 52 min

    In Matthew 5:33-48, we continue with the second half of Jesus’ kingdom commandments. He calls us deeper in and further out, establishing an incredibly high moral standard for entrance into the kingdom of heaven. At this point, we are…

  • Matthew 5:17-32 Kingdom Commandments 1

    September 2, 2025 · 47 min

    In Matthew 5:17-32, we address the first half of kingdom commandments indicated by Jesus formula, “You have heard it said…but I say to you…” What does it look like to be salt and light for the kingdom of heaven? Jesus is going to tell us…

  • Matthew 5:1-16 Kingdom Values

    September 2, 2025 · 40 min

    In Matthew 5:1-16, Jesus begins the sermon on the mount with a two part introduction. First, he communicates a series of virtues God affirms by rewarding. And second, he exhorts his disciples to be salt and light in society, presumably by…

  • Matthew 3-4 Gospel of the Kingdom

    September 2, 2025 · 33 min

    In Matthew 3-4, we continue to follow Matthew as he sets up the context for the sermon on the mount. Who is this Jesus? What has he come to do? What is his connection to the Old Covenant? What does he mean that the kingdom of heaven is…

  • Matthew 1-2 Origin of the King

    September 2, 2025 · 37 min

    We begin our Sermon on the Mount series with a two-part overview of Matthew 1-4 to set up our context. Who is this Jesus? What has he come to do? What is his connection to the Old Covenant? That’s what Matthew has in mind to tell us…

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About the show

There is nothing else like the Sermon on the Mount in any literature, anywhere, ever. It is found in the Gospel of Matthew 5-7. One day Jesus went up on a mountain, his disciples sat around him, and he began to teach. Jesus' words that day established an impossibly high ethical standard. This is the gospel of his kingdom. It is the declaration of a New Covenant. "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill (Mt. 5:17)." Jesus promised that if we seek his kingdom, everything else in life will fall into place (Mt. 6:33). What does Jesus mean? What does he expect us to do? What is this vision of the kingdom he is calling us to pursue? Bible teacher Michael Brent takes us through the sermon's structure and flow of thought, beginning with a two-part overview of Matthew's introduction of Jesus in chapters 1-4 and then focusing in on the text of the sermon in Matthew 5-7.