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In concluding his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus provides a shocking and piercing message to his followers.

The Deceived

Appears to be Christ's disciple

Thinks he is Christ's disciple

Is declared an evildoer by Christ

Approaches others in the same way he approaches God

The Disciple

Comes to the end of himself

Renounces his ways to embrace God's ways

Enters into a supernatural, eternal, and personal relationship with God

Attempts to know others in the same manner that God knows him

The Deluge

Reveals the true disciple

Tests our devotion to God through obedience

Will not harm any house built on the foundation

The business of the Christian faith is not to give us a knowledge of theology. You can have a great knowledge of theology and still not know God. I am the last man to decry theology, one of the greatest troubles is the lack of a knowledge of theology, but I say you may have a knowledge of theology and still be a stranger to the love of God.

Old Testament Evangelistic Sermons, 40

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Welsh Preacher and Writer)

We do not live by rules but by relationships, a loving relationship to God that enables us to have a loving relationship with others.

Warren W. Wiersbe

7187 If my interest in the work of others is cool … then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael (Missionary to India)

A little knowledge of God is worth a lot more than a great deal of knowledge about him.

J. I. Packer

The ‘knowledge of God’s will’ is more than simply an insight into how God wants his people to behave: it is an understanding of God’s whole saving purpose in Christ, and hence (as in v. 10b) a knowledge of God himself.

N. T. Wright

7347 With the knowledge of God comes love.

Saint Catherine of Siena

It is comparable to the knowledge which a man has who is in love with a woman. It is not possible for him to sit down and write out a philosophical account of his love, he cannot explain it rationally: he knows it, but here his reason ceases. The great love which reason and knowledge do not understand—that is it. We know, because we have love and love recognises love, and love attracts love. The little lamb cannot give you a rational reason why it should pick out one sheep as its mother but it knows that sheep is his mother. The Christian’s knowledge of his Lord is something like that.

Saved in Eternity, 157

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Welsh Preacher and Writer)