Sermon Tone Analysis
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What is Discipleship?
Disciples - Following Jesus and doing what He says (Humble student)
Backdrop
Genealogy
Birth
John the Baptist
Jesus’ Baptism
Temptation of Jesus
Begins his ministry
Calls disciples
How to interpret these Ethics and Morals?
A standard for Church Leaders - not everyone?
Social Gospel? - Karl Marx
An Impossible Ideal?
How to understand the Bible?
Understand the setting and culture
Understand the principle
Balance the info with all of the scripture
Attempt to live in accordance with the new information
Setting:
Groups of people in the Gospel
Religious Leaders - Against Jesus
The Crowd - Observers of Jesus
Disciples
Everyone committed to believing and following Jesus
Not Special Christians or Leaders “Apostle” is a leader
Background information
Extraordinary things happen in Matthew
4:8 Mountain of Temptation
17:1 Transfiguration
28:16 Mountain of the Resurrection and Great Commission.
Moses
Jesus Sat down
Rabbi giving an interpretation of the Torah
His Dispels came to him
Students - humble
Fasting
He opened his mouth and taught them
The mouth of God
Discipleship is following Jesus and doing what He says (Humble student)
How to interpret these Ethics and Morals?
A standard for Church Leaders - NO EVERYONE
Social Gospel? - Yes, BUT MORE!
An Impossible Ideal? - NOW & NOT YET
Why has Matthew given so much to the sermon on the mount?
Everyone is welcomed - we will be teaching what Jesus said, and trying to live it out.
Stanley Hauerwas sums up the whole sermon on the mount this way:
When he called his society together Jesus gave its members a new way of life to live.
He gave them a new way to deal with offenders—by forgiving them.
He gave them a new way to deal with violence—by suffering.
He gave them a new way to deal with money—by sharing it.
He gave them a new way to deal with problems of leadership—by drawing on the gift of every member, even the most humble.
He gave them a new way to deal with a corrupt society—by building a new order, not smashing the old.
He gave them a new pattern of relationship between man and woman, between parent and child, between master and slave, in which was made concrete a radical new vision of what it means to be a human person.
He gave them a new attitude toward the state and toward the “enemy nation.”
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