Chunks: The Sermon on the Mount

Before we move on to Matthew 6, let’s take an episode to review. What Jesus is giving his hearers in Matthew 5 is a vision for a kind of righteousness that is different from what they’ve learned from their religious leaders. We can’t turn his teaching into a new legalism, as if he were asking us to out-Pharisee the Pharisees. Rather, we need to let his words transform our imagination of what true righteousness could be.

What is Chunks: The Sermon on the Mount?

The "Sermon on the Mount," found in Matthew chapters 5 through 7, contains some of the best-known teaching of Jesus, including the Lord's Prayer. It also includes some of the most ethically challenging words in all of the New Testament. This show will explore the sermon bit by bit, as Jesus calls believers to a kind of righteousness that is lived out in the everyday challenges of relationships.