Lead In: A Summary of where we are As we go through this first section of Matthew 5 , let's remember what these Beatitudes actually are. Far more than an “ethical code” by which humanity should live by, they are a totaling description of what a Christian looks like. They are supernaturally created adjectives that only apply to the Children of God. With the truth that only the divine heart surgery that God performs being able to create these in His children, it makes sense tha

Point #1 Last week we looked at a “Core Sample” of the life of Jesus, and saw that “Teaching, Preaching, & Healing”, are what we can expect from the life of Jesus. We briefly explored each of them, and then boiled it all down to explain that everything  that Jesus did or didn't do, was for the glory of His Father. Jesus Christ is a living Sermon, and that Sermon has an outline. He didn't live and speak in unorganized fortune cookie snippets, and He never mindlessly rambled or

Point #1  → A Core Sample In our Verses  this morning, we have Jesus’ “rise to fame” as it were. Like we talked about a few Sundays ago,...