Some Lessons From the Sermon On the Mount

What has been labeled “The Sermon on the Mount,” known more generally from Matthew, chapters 5 through 7, has been the topic of many a sermon and the challenge of many a private study. Perhaps the part that is more widely known comes from Matthew 5:3-11, commonly referred to as “The Beatitudes,” meaning “supreme blessedness or happiness.” One could spend a lifetime on the great thoughts contained in these few verses and never exhaust their depth and meaning.

Twelve lessons gleaned from the Sermon on the Mount:

• Some Reasons Why Jesus Came
• Who Can Enter the Kingdom?
• No Man Can Serve Two Masters
• Ask, Seek, and Knock
• The Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees
• The Twos of the Sermon on the Mount
• Overcoming Evil
• Judge Not That Ye Be Not Judged
• Dealing with Anger
• A Lesson for “Worrywarts”
• The Prayer That Jesus Taught His Disciples
• A Warning Against Being Deceived.