Sermon Transcript Tone Analysis

Good morning.

Good to see all of you to see all of the chairs, exciting.

If you're watching online.

You can't tell that we don't have stacks in chairs on the size of the room anymore.

Actually, the the sound from up here?

Sounds different, cuz it's not bouncing off the charger.

Welcome to episode 29 of the planned throughout the school year.

We've been looking at the story of the Bible.

From beginning to end, we started with Genesis and now we're in the ministry of Jesus.

And today, we're going to be looking at The Sermon on the Mount or parts of it at least, which is unusual for the series because we've been focusing on plot and The Sermon on the Mount is dialog.

But the truth is that you can't really tell the story of the Bible without engaging with a Sermon on the Mount.

In fact, I would argue that you can't tell the story of the world without engaging in the story of The Sermon, on the Mount.

It is been the single, most transformative set of words, ever spoken by a human being, but it also is a very important Moment In the bible where jesus shows us what he what he is teaching about the purpose of God's people and of humanities.

And so I want to I want to make sure that we hit this note.

So the service to be a little bit different because we're going to be talking about, we're only looking at a sermon.

Through The Eyes of the people.

He said it too.

And so the as we get into the into the coordinates, we're going to be talking about the people listening to the sermon and what they're supposed to be hearing.

But before we get into the sermon, let's let's remind ourselves of the story.

We've been telling so far.

The Bible is the story of God's plan, to establish a Place full of people who live out their purpose in his presents.

God made the world and he put people in it.

He gave him the job of ruling on his behalf and then he came down to live with them and that was on the 7th day that he called.

Holy, that's what was happening.

That's what the world looked like in.

That was God's design and then human beings messed it up and we kept messing up and we kept messing up.

And so God initiated this plan to restore that designed to the world through one group of people, the Israelites he gave him one specific place to live in.

He gave them their purpose laid out in the law of Moses and he came down to live with them in the temple in the idea was that if if the world could look at Israel, Israel was doing this right then they could see What God wanted for the world?

What he wanted for Humanity?

And so Israel has this mission to be God's example to the world.

The problem is the Israelites were not any better than any of the rest of us are obeying God.

And so when people look at Israel, what they were seeing was not what God wanted and it got so bad.

That it certain point.

God said the guy said, the only way I can show the world who I am through Israel's by sending them in Exile to show them.

That this is not me, whatever.

I am.

It's not what Israel has become is, what Israel has been waiting around for about 500 years.

Some of them got to come back into the promised land, but they're spread around the known world and they're waiting to be restored and that's the mission.

That Jesus comes to fulfill, God sends him to restore is real and 2 to call them to turn away from the the ways.

They've been trying to be God's people and to get them to repent of that and to follow God and to be who he called them to be.

Until two weeks ago, we talked about how he's been announcing that as the good news of the kingdom of God is coming.

That's what that phrase means.

He's announcing that it is ruined saying, this is what's going on.

You need to turn and repent and get on board before you end up where you don't want to.

Because there are there on a path is leading them to destruction.

And they need to move on to God's path.

And then last week, we looked at how Jesus goes around, basically restoring people into God's community and putting together, this new group of people who are following him, who are living out God's plan his way, and he turns them into a family that is that meant to be to fulfill this plan that God has for his people today.

As we go into The Sermon on the Mount, we're going to be looking at how Jesus lays out for his people, what the purpose is for is usually when we read The Sermon on the Mount, we see it as a sermon about individual ethics about a new moral law, but that's not what Jesus is doing.

As we read it through the length of the plan.

We see him laying out, His his platform for what it means to be God's people until as we read the story, we're going to be looking at it, through the eyes of the people.

He's speaking to self before.

I read our opening section.

Remind, remind you of how we keep our bearings in the stories first year to be.

Looking for people who is the story about specifically, who is Jesus speaking to is what we're looking at his place.

Where is their home, third his presents.

How can I meet with God?

And on the fourth one?

What did God tell them to do?

That's what the sermon is about.

That's what we're going to be seen for The Sermon on the Mount.

So let's, let's look at the beat how this sermon came about.

Jesus went throughout Galilee teaching in their synagogues for claiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease, and sickness among the people.

Now about news about him, spread all over Syrian people, brought to him all who were in various diseases, those suffering from severe pain.

The demon possessed, those having seizures and the paralyzed and healed them, large crowds From Galilee to Jerusalem, Judy, and the region across the Jordan, followed him, knowing Jesus.

All the crowds.

He went up on the Mountainside and sat down his disciples came to him and he began to teach them.

Who is the story about, who is Jesus speaking to?

His disciples are the main group.

They're the ones who come to him.

So he speaking to his disciples.

However, he's got a whole bunch of Jews that have not yet decided these disciples were falling around because he can heal people until there a secondary audience.

But the people he's speaking to are the people who have committed to following him into living out his way.

And he's telling them what that way is going to look like.

Where is their home right now?

Their home is with client, Galilee and Judea because the Romans are in charge and they've carved up their Homeland.

However, they want in the way they want.

It is Galilee in the north with a vassal King called Herod and Judy and the South with a Roman Governor.

So those names are a reminder to us that the Romans are in charge of the Israelites or not.

How can the people of God meet with God?

Where is God's presence?

In Jesus, it's not in the temple.

God never returned to his Temple, to Temple is empty.

There's no Arc.

There's no Cloud.

There's no nothing inside, but the presence of God descended on Jesus.

So that if you want to meet God on Earth, go find Jesus and you're in the presence of God.

What did God tell them to do? Don't write anything here yet?

Cuz they're about to find out.

That's the whole point.

Now before we get into what Jesus said to this group of people.

It's important for us to know.

One thing about the Jews of first-century Palestine that is unique to this group.

It's the rest of the Jews and other places were not like this and Juice.

Since the first century have not shared in this tray.

That is a very unique trait for first-century Jews.

That is this culture that they had, that was built around the temple and around our nationhood.

Now, we as Americans, we have a strong sense of nationhood and a big part of our founding story that we tell is the founding fathers.

Why we have these names.

We all recognise there were taught to remember.

In school.