While Jesus commands us to treat others with the same love and respect we desire, we can easily get caught up in our own behavior.As shared in the sermon, an emphasis on our own works is often the largest threat to our spiritual growth and understanding of grace.
The Sermon on the Mount is the first of five major discourses in the Gospel of Matthew. All five follow blocks of narrative material; all five end with the same formula (Like Matt 7:28–29 And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.) Jesus' Sermon on the Mount deals with ethical issues of deep rooted importance in every age, this “sermon” has caused thousands of books and articles to be written.
