Sermon Tone Analysis

INTRODUCTION

WELCOME

Good Morning - Release the Kids

Stand to Read :1-12

DISCIPLESHIP REVIEW

Bridge the two series

Discipleship

Review the definition...

“Worship Jesus through ongoing surrender?

Imagine sitting at Jesus feet to listen to him preach...

These aren’t just themes to broken done and restructured back together.

These are the words of Jesus - they are meant to be heard - they are meant to be treasured, they are meant to be followed

“With Obedience to God In Everyday Life”

Transformed Lives (Hands)

Anger

Lust

Marriage & Divorce

Oaths & Promises

Retaliation

Transformed Affections

Generosity

Prayer & fasting

Treasures of our Heart

Anxiety

Understanding the Setting

Jesus’ Temptation

Jesus is preaching

Jesus calls the disciples

Jesus continues preaching and healing the sick

POINT ONE - THE KINGDOM OF GOD

- Jesus’ Central Teaching

Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand

Wat does this mean?

What is the Kingdom of God? Was this expected?

How did the hearers receive this message?

If jump into Jesus Sermon on the Mount without first understanding this context then we risk missing the entire point of his sermon all together.

The First Kingdom

”Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth

God created Adam and Eve in his image

Placed them as rulers over his creation under God’s sovereign authority

To reflect his glory

- Adam And Eve rejected God‘s rule and reign and wanted the glory for themselves

Being picked on the playground, or in a pick-up game of basketball, the next promotion, etc...

The strong, educated, rich, beautiful

This brought sin, separation, and destruction

Biblical Language

Kingdom of this this age...

Kingdom of this world

Kingdom of sin and death

People of God

Among all peoples of the earth, God chose one from whom he said that he would be their God and they would be his people - so they might be a blessing then to all peoples and nations.

God led them to a Mountain where God spoke and gave them instructions for what it meant to be his people, his kingdom on earth:

So much more than the 10 commandments

The Rescue

God, their King, rescued the people from their bondage, slavery, brokenness.

He saved them from themselves

Brough them out of Egypt

Seperated the Red Sea as they passed through on dry land and then destroyed Pharoah’s army.

Song for the King

THEY SANG: “The Lord will reign forever and ever”

Then God led them to a Mountain where God spoke and gave them instructions for what it meant to be his people, his kingdom on earth:

We can’t pick a choose to keep only the parts we like

So much more than the 10 commandments

We like, “Don’t judge others” but let’s not talk about lust or divorce

Teachings of a King, both the authority and person of Jesus

The Rebellion

Israel did not follow God and they did not live faithfully under his rule and reign

Taken back into captivity

Ca

Future Hope

The prophets kept the hope alive that one day God will re-establish his kingdom

Though we see the brokenness and we are surrounded by the ruin of our own sin we look to the horizon with an expectant hope.

Standing there, with our eyes fixed outword we hear the echo of the words from the Prophet Isaiah:

Isaiah 52:7-

THE KINGDOM OF GOD is the story of how God is taking back his world from us.

The Kingdom of God is the King’s power over the King’s people in the King’s place.

We Wait

Jesus’ ethical teachings are like the relationship between our bones and our bodies.

If you took all that surrounds our bones—our organs, veins, muscles, flab, and whatever else there is—we’d die.

The “bones” of Jesus’ teaching cannot be separated from the body of the Teacher or from his life, death, and resurrection as well as his theology—his view of God, humankind, and the necessity of new birth, repentance, and faith for one to enter into a saving relationship with God.

Matthew Chapter 1 - Jesus is the king of the Jews

Matthew Chapter 28 - Jesus is the King of all peoples around the world

One year passes and then 2

then a decade, and a century, generations have now passed

700 years pass and maybe God forgot - maybe things are just too broken

JESUS APPEARS ON THE SCENE

Transform our Thinking (Head)

Transform Our Affections (Heart)

Transform Our Actions (Hands)

BIG IDEA

Surrendering to the authority of jesus as he establishes his kingdom on earth, as it is in heaven.

POINT ONE - The Kingdom of God

Repent, The Kingdom of God is at hand

Now is the time

I am him, the messenger who was promised.

Let the blind see, let the lame walk - the Kingdom of God is at hand.

You see him - imagine you are part of the crowd surrounding jesus at this moment.

Begin the passage...

“Jesus went up on the mountain...”

Some commentaries liken Jesus’ ascent to the mountain like that of Moses, as Jesus declares the nature of his Kingdom.