Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

There is a kind of logical sequence in this Sermon. Not only that, there is certainly a spiritual order and sequence.

A deep doctrine of sin, a high doctrine of joy, and the two together produce this blessed, happy man who mourns, and who at the same time is comforted. The way to experience that, obviously, is to read the Scriptures, to study and meditate upon them, to pray to God for His Spirit to reveal sin in us to ourselves, and then to reveal to us the Lord J

They worked by traditions, and most of these traditions were really nothing but very clever and subtle ways of evading the demands of the law.

Holiness is something we practise in our daily life. It is the honouring and the keeping of the law, as the Son of God Himself kept it while He was here on earth. It is being like Him. That is holiness.

3-10 you have the character of the Christian described in and of itself.

Because here we arc reaching a point at which we begin to be concerned about other people.

That is a great reason for hungering and thirsting after righteousness-the hatefulness of sin.

Holiness is not an experience that we have; it means keeping and fulfilling the law of God.

the order in which the statements come in the Sermon is really of supreme importance.