Sermon Tone Analysis

“This changing World” is a phrase we hear often.

As we compare our day with Jesus’ day, we do see many changes.

The style of our clothes today is very different from the long, flowing robes in which Jesus wore.

In His day, the preparation and cooking of food was a very crude process, and menus were very simple.

Today we have our supermarkets, in which constant frozen foods are available, bakery bread, and a vast variety of other things to eat.

Today one could probably fly all around the world in an airplane quicker than Mary and Joseph made their journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem.

We flip a switch and flood our homes with electricity , while in Jesus‘s day light in the home at night was very dim at best.

We speak a different language then he spoke.

One to the right at length about the changes which have taken place in our society during the last 2000 years.

On the other hand, there are many things that have never changed.

The law of gravitation is the same as it was from the beginning.

The four seasons come and go as they always have.

The tides of the ocean rise and fall as they have done since the oceans began.

The 10 Commandments have not changed since Moses spoke them.

Stealing is still stealing.

God has not changed.

Henry F. RT Lyte- oh thou, who changes not, abide with me.

Neither has men really changed.

Man’s hopes, fears, sorrows, happiness are the same as today as they have been throughout the centuries of history.

The basic principles of human lives have not changed.

if Jesus alive today in the flesh, rode on an airplane, watch TV, lived in air-conditioning home, and had all that science had to offer, he would still not need to change one word of the sermon on the mount.

The words in which he spoke Our eternal and apply equally to every age and every generation.

In fact, he himself out that his words were even more enduring than this universe.

therefore when we study the sermon on the mount, we may be sure that it applies to our lives today and to each one of us.

The Master Teaches

The sermon on the mount is recorded in the fifth, sixth, and the seventh chapters of the gospel of Matthew.

Before the actual words of the sermon are begun, Matthew sets down to short in two verses The basic and important principles which must be understood before one can understand the words of the Lord in the sermon.

See The Multitude

With infinite love and compassion our Lord understood the human hearts.

He had deep empathy for people; he saw their needs, their weakness, their desires, and their hurts.

He understood and was concerned for people.

Every word he spoke was a red because he saw the need for that word in some human life.

He was concerned always to lift up and never to tear down, to heal and never to hurt, to save and never to condemn.

But notice, the sermon on the mount was not delivered to the multitudes.

Instead Jesus withdrew himself from them, and went up into a mountain, or later his disciples came to him.

It is very important to know that this sermon was given first to the disciples.

The sermon on the mount may be described as the sermon given to the 12 disciples, and beyond them the commission for every Christian who goes out to live his life and do the Lords work.

Likely the sermon on the mount followed very soon after our Lord chose the 12 disciples.

This is clearly indicated in a six chapter of Luke’s Gospel: beginning with the 13th verse we have a record of the name of the 12 who were called.

Then follow immediately the words of the sermon on the mount.

This is very important to see, because today we live in a dangerous tendency of thinking our Lord as a teacher before we think of him as the Savior.

This can be a fatal mistake.

Without knowing Christ as the Savior, his teachings can be so beyond our reach that they do not help us, need us to despair.

We become changed by him rather than by his teachings, and the sermon on the mount is the pattern of life for those who have received him as their Savior.

Here, Jesus also, reveals his pattern of soul winning to the world: it is through the hearts and lives of those who have received him as their Savior.

His message is to be carried into the other most parts of the earth by those who have trusted in him.

Our Lord understood the power of such a life, and he was saying to those disciples, so those who had committed to him, “here is the blue print, here are the principles, here are the words for changed human lives and the kingdom of God here on earth.”

Sit with Him

There is a real significance here.

In Jesus day, when rabbi talked, he always sat down while the crowd stood.

He’s official teaching is never done while he is standing or strolling about: it is always while he is seated.

Certainly Matthew understood this and he carefully pointed out that our Lord sat down.

This was saying there was about to be an official word of the Lord: these are not just off the cuff comments, but they are basic and eternal principles.

Dr. James T Fisher, a veteran psychiatrist, make the following statement: “if you want to take the total sum of all the articles ever written by the most qualified psychologist and psychiatrist on the subject of mental hygiene – if you were to combine them and defined them and cleave to the text - if you were to take the whole of the meat and none of the extras, if you were to have pure bites of the science, if you had quotes from the most capable of living poets, you would have an awkward an incomplete summation of the sermon on the mount.“

We think of the sermon on the mount as an official summation of the teaching of our Lord.

Some feel that Jesus delivered the sermon exactly as we have it recorded, others feel that we have recorded small bits of all of the sermons Jesus ever preached.

Which ever here we have sat down before us the truth of God for our lives.

As we get started learning about what Christ has to speak realized that he is speaking to men Who wanted to follow him and we’re committed to doing so.

These are life lessons about living a committed life for Christ.

Are we going to be a listener who wants to be fully committed to him.