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Life in the Kingdom

Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount contains some of the best-loved passages in all of the Bible, including the Lord’s Prayer. In his famous sermon, Jesus tells people “you are the light of the world”. We learn to “turn the other cheek”. Jesus urges us to lay up treasures in heaven and seek first God’s kingdom. Jesus’ words overflow with grace and mercy to God’s people. Jesus’ message challenged and encouraged people, especially the poor in spirit, the downtrodden, those who were struggling, and those who felt like nobodies.

Yet, not everyone has understood Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Some have taken his words and wrung all the grace from them. Others have seen the sermon as just another list of do’s and dont’s. Frequently, preachers have reduced the words of Jesus to just another set of moralisms, wise words that we might choose to live by when convenient. But Jesus was not just imparting some beneficial wisdom or homely guidance on how to be a good person. Jesus intended much more.

Jesus himself was the embodiment of God’s loving rulership over all of humanity. Through the cross and the resurrection, Jesus was inaugurating a new life, a life to the full, under the leadership of God. Jesus is the King, and he intended his kingdom to be filled with love and grace and joy for all who would follow him. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus shows us life in his kingdom – how we are to live fully, relate to one another in love and honour, and have a joy-filled relationship with God. Jesus was not establishing a new set of commandments. Instead, he was showing us how his grace would flow out of our lives in love, faith, and joy. He was showing us how to live in a broken world so that the world might see the glory and grace of God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Jesus was describing life in the kingdom of God, inviting all who heard to come under God’s loving rulership by grace through faith in Jesus.

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