The Sermon on the Mount

you can see we're going to be we're going to be taking a look at Sermon on the

Mount now we can't do it all in one day so I can tell you right now we're going

to be studying The Sermon on the Mount for the next six weeks because that's about how long it

takes to go through the Sermon on the Mount it's the longest single teaching of Jesus in the

Bible and The Sermon on the Mount covers three chapters in Matthew Matthew 5 5

six and 7 and the groundwork is laid in chapter 4 so we're going to be looking

at sermon mount in depth but before we get into that s

Lon um I'm going to give you some numbers this is probably going to blow your mind

a little bit last Sunday by the time we got

through having uh ice cream floats and nachos I

got a message from Facebook we'd had over 200

people watched last Sunday service by the time we got done having

root beer floats by the end of the week it was over

1,200 yeah so if you

think this doesn't work it absolutely does we are reaching

people we've never reached before this church has a lot to offer a lot of

people and now we're reaching over a th people a week in four

months so when you're praying make sure you you remember to

pray for those people that are joining our services that are not physically sitting

in this building thousand people a week actually it's

over 12200 so um

86 by Wednesday was over 1,200 by

today and that's a lot that's something we've never done

so Aiden can you help me

out normally I I try to can you make sure everybody gets one and then bring

those back because we might have some people join us next week that aren't here today

so one of the uh one of the hardest things to do when

you're preparing a message like this and by the way I've been working on this for like 3

months um the Lord spoke to me about it so I started working on it but before we

actually get into the sermon on the mount can you go to the next slide

Chris there's five tools and I had Aiden hand these out to you so this is a

definition of what these are and when you're

doing when you're studying something in the

Bible you need five things homolytic hermeneutics ex Jesus Theology and

Doctrine they all sound like big words right okay that's why I gave you I gave

gave you handout so you would understand what each one is because

homolytic is what I do to prepare for teaching a sermon or preaching it's the

strategies of preaching and providing instruction to a congregation that's what homolytic is

hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation especially

interpretation of biblical text wisdom literature and philosophical

texts which are all included in the Bible by the way and then ex

Jesus when you go through to get your credentials

um you you're going to do a lot of this ex aesus it's the critical explanation

or interpretation of a text and what it means is it's the explanation of the who

what when and how how a scripture or scriptures was written and why you hear

me tell you like when we were talking about third John chap uh verse two how

the word Prosperity or prosper in that verse has a completely different meaning

in the 20th or 21st century than it did in the first century okay that's ex aesus that's what

it is theology is the study of the nature of God and religious beliefs and

Doctrine is a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by the church these I

want you guys to keep because when you're studying the Bible for yourself at home these are the

things that you need to apply to what you're reading and so to get it correct I

brought one of my books from home you need one of

these it's a strong as exhaustive concordance and what it has is every single word in the Bible is listed in

this book if the word Prosper is in there it tells you how many times it's used in the Old Testament how many times

it's used in the in the New Testament then in the back of it it has a Greek and Hebrew dictionaries they tell you

what the word means in the original language so you can properly interpret the scriptures you're reading that's

what these are for if you don't want to go out and buy one of these you can get the app for free and download it to your

phone so you always have it but if you want to correct interpret scripture

these are tools you need don't depend on the person standing in the

Pulpit to tell you what something means that's why the 2 Timothy 3:15 says

study to show yourself approved unto God a Workman needing not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of Truth why

because you need to know for sure if I'm telling you the truth okay go to the next screen slide

so let's talk about The Sermon on the Mount it's the longest single teaching

Jesus did in the whole in all of his ministry

longest and in that he defines true Doctrine in

theology he sets the standard for what we

believe he goes through and the and he he wants to share with you what the

nature of God is that's what theology is about go to the next slide

Chris this is theology this is tough because it's divided into 10

different areas of study theology proper is the study of

the character of God bibliology is a study of the Bible christology is a study study of

Christ patology is the study of the holy spirit soteriology is the study of

Salvation theological anthrop anthropology it's the study of the

nature of man hamar theology is the study of

sin angelology of course the study of angels ecclesiology is the study of the

church eschatology is the study of end times and those 10 things are known as systemic the

theology sounds complicated right sounds

overwhelming how do you eat an elephant one bite at a

time one bite at a time that's how you eat an elephant you

never seen the book you never read that book how do you eat an

elephant you can't get offended over a saying how do you even know off one B at a time

okay so to all of these types of

theology Christ included in The Sermon on the Mount it's amazing go to the next slide

Chris so to truly understand the teaching of what Jesus was doing we need

to understand who it was written to at the time it was written where it took

took place who was the audience and what was the socioeconomic

and political environment at the time I know this sounds like it's going to be a really boring thing but I'm I promise

you today is the least is the most boring of the whole thing and once we understand this then we can correctly

interpret and apply the teaching that Christ put in there

so go ahead and go to the next slide Chris The Sermon on the Mount

as I've told you already it's the longest single teaching of Christ in the

Bible it covers three full chapters 5 six and 7 plus the setting which is what

you need to know to understand this of Matthew 4:23 to2 which I'm going to read

right now so what happened at the beginning of

chapter 4 of Matthew Jesus was baptized by John he went into

the Wilderness the Temptation Of Christ he comes out of the Wilderness he starts

picking disciples he goes to the wedding in Canaan and then he enters into his

public Ministry okay in that order this picks up from where he's entering in to

his public Ministry he's already called the fishermen he's already said come follow me I'll make you Fishers of Men

verse 23 it talks about it starts with and Jesus went about all

Galilee teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the

kingdom and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people and his Fame went throughout

all Syria and they brought unto him all the sick people that were taken with divers

diseases and torments and those which were possessed with devils and those

which were lunatic and those that had the py and he healed

them and there followed him great multitudes of people from

Galilee and from decopolis and from Jerusalem and from

Judea and from Beyond Jordan so Jesus starts his public

Ministry it's a Healing Ministry it's a Deliverance Ministry he's delivering

people from all these things he's talking about he's preaching the kingdom of God in

Repentance and people begin to follow him and that takes him he comes out of

there and he's uh he's got all these people following him yeah you you remember the the old

time the old school um tent revivals okay tent revivals the

Evangelist comes in with this big tent he sets it up people flock to the Tent Revival and he moves to the next town

and everybody follows him to the next town and then they follow him to the next town that's what's going on here

people never seen anything like this before so it causes them to follow Jesus and keep following him so

Jesus being who he is he sees the

multitudes and he does something he stops and he goes up onto the side of a

mountain and he sits down and his disciples came unto him and

all these people that were following and he says and he opened his mouth and

taught them now who are these people that have been following

him they're Jews living by the law of

Moses now they've heard the law of Moses all their lives they've been taught by the Pharisees they've been taught by the

priests why would Jesus preaching the kingdom cause them to follow

him because there was freedom in his

words the things he had to say set them free from the bondage of the doctrine of

the Pharisees how many laws did God give us

Ten Commandments Ten Commandments and Jesus summed it up in in he says you can

you can do all of it if you do two things what are they love God and love

your neighbor as yourself two things sums up the whole

Ten Commandments love love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your mind with all your strength and love

your neighbor as you love yourself if you do those two things you fulfilled the whole Ten Commandments he came with

freedom because he's telling those people you no longer have to do all this

stuff over here to get into my presence do these two things and if you do those

two things and you have a repented heart you can enter into my

presence and that's why they followed him he had something to tell them they

had never heard before David didn't say it the prophets didn't say it

Moses didn't say it only Jesus said it

so as we're PR preparing to go into this and it's going to take six weeks so

don't get discouraged be excited here's how the people reacted to what Jesus

said and it's at the end of Matthew chapter 7: 28- 29 and it says and it

came to pass when Jesus had ended these Saints

the people were astonished at his

Doctrine for he taught them as one having Authority and not as the

scribes brother Tim you were teaching Sunday school this morning you hit on a

lot of these things when you're submitting yourself to God you resist the devil and he flees

from you what are you actually doing you're making a proclamation that

what God Said is true and what the enemy said is not and then you got to stand there and

you got to fight for it if you don't think when you take a

stand and say devil I'm not going down this road he's not going to fight you 10

times harder than he did you're lying to yourself when you take a stand for God

when you submit to God the Devil comes at you harder than he ever has some of

the things that were listed in the in Sunday school this morning he was talking about because I do study my

Sunday school lesson is one of the questions and it's a big one how come people who are

basically evil never go through bad stuff the devil doesn't go after his own

y pretty simple it's Common Sense the devil does not attack his own because if

he did where would they go they'd start following

Jesus but when you take a stand he the enemy definitely does not like it

how many of you decided you're going to do something for the Lord and you started into it and the first thing happened is you got

sick then broke down then everything went sideways

and you persevered all the way through all of those things and what happened when you

got to the other side of that God began to bless you he began to do things for

you why because you did what he said well Jesus in The Sermon on the Mount

he's been delivering people from attacks of the Devil he's been restoring lunatic

Minds yesterday driving over to se bow we we were having breakfast at a place called

The Corner Cafe if you're in viel go over there and have breakfast it's really good but anyway we're driving

over we're sitting out in front of Starbucks right after we'd had breakfast

visiting and this guy came up on a bike don't ask me what drug he was on

but it was a wild one okay he was out there he's punching his bags kicking his

bike punching punching these pillars and uh we were sitting there and this

guy I mean this guy's did all this in like 15 seconds cussing his bike all

kind of stuff this guy comes walking across the parking lot just

calm got t-shirt shorts ten shoes and socks on comes walking up he goes

hey can I buy you something to drink and the guy goes what he goes I

saw you over here being all frustrated you know it's good for God's people to

help out people he said can I buy you something to drink the guy didn't know how to

act this guy Perfect Stranger in the parking lot walks over and gets this guy and

walks him into Starbucks and buys him something to drink and he bought him something to eat and walks him back out

to his bike you know the guy stopped he stopped acting crazy he

stopped acting like a lunatic he sat down on the sidewalk and drank his coffee and I don't know if he got a

scone or what he got but anyway he ate it and then he jumped up on his bike and he

left that's somebody doing what God called you to do one little simple

thing and Jesus talks about that depth In this passage of scriptures go to the

next slide Chris Sermon on the Mount it's got 19 subjects

in it and it's Christ teaching on living a life of Faith how to relate to each

other how to honor God the father in every area of our lives and the proper

perspective on life and Victorious living now I want you to think about

this it only took Jesus three chapters to teach on this

took the Apostle Paul 13

letters starting in Romans 1 Corinthians 2

Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians 1 and 2

Timothy 1 and 2 Thessalonians Titus and

philimon to explain to non-jews this is important

what he said in those three chapters because Gentiles had no idea

who God was they had no idea who Jesus was the Jews

did that's why it only took Jesus three chapters but it took Paul 13

letters because he had to he had to lay that Foundation down way where a non-jew

could understand it this was written to Jews in the first centur

Cy under Roman rule they were

abused Romans were brutal and I do mean brutal their laws if you were not a

Roman citizen were not for you you were regarded as just above an

animal had no problem that there was no law against a Roman citizen killing a non-roman citizen there was no penalty

for it if you were a slave they could kill you there was no penalty for

it they could sell you they could have you beaten they could do anything they

wanted to you and you had no recourse but if you were a Roman citizen

that can do any of those things before you if you peeled the Caesar they had to stop what they were doing and take you

to Rome to appear before Caesar and he had to determine what your

punishment was that's what they were living

under and yet Jesus walks in and he gives this Sermon on the

Mount to them and they understood what he was saying because they were

Jewish and what he did was open up the things that Moses had said to them so

they could understand exactly what God was requiring quiring of them but we as

Gentiles had no idea cuz we were not raised no Gentile had ever really been

on the inner in the Inner Circle and who' he send to his share it a

Jew Apostle Paul he said I was a Hebrew among Hebrews a Pharisee among Pharisees a Jew

among Jews of the strictest set and that's who God chose to send to the

Gentiles because he understood the law so that he could share to us who

were not raised under the law what the truth of the Gospel is and so as we're

going through The Sermon on the Mount we're looking at this from a Jewish

perspective but we're also looking at how does this apply to me how do I make this work for me and we

quote parts of it constantly Matthew 6:33 and 34 seek ye

first the king of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added under you take no thought for

tomorrow for sufficient to the day is is the evil thereof you guys know that scripture Sermon on the

Mount The Lord's Prayer Sermon on the Mount the Beatitudes Sermon on the Mount

how to deal with Gentiles Sermon on the Mount 19 subjects go to the next slide

Chris chapter 5 so I broke this down by chapter so you would understand what Jesus actually addressed the

Beatitudes being the salt of the earth teachings on murder and anger teachings

on divorce teaching on swearing Oaths

teachings on forgiveness teachings on loving your enemy that's all in chapter

five go to the next slide Chris chapter six covers teaches on

giving on prayer on fasting on putting your Treasures in Heaven and how not to

live a life in worry and chapter 7 covers judging and

being judged asking and receiving the straight and wide Gates false prophets and rock

and sand foundations now how many of you would agree with me that covers every aspect

of a Christian's life Jesus did not leave anything

out but for us to receive it took the Apostle Paul writing out all of these

letters to these different locations and Romans The Book of Romans is his

um cre de la cream it's eight chapters of Theology and eight chapters of

practical application chapters 1-8 is theology

chapters 1-8 covers The Sermon on the Mount and every aspect of a Christian's

life in theory the theological side chapters 9- 16 tells you how to

apply it in a practical

way it's the toughest book in the bible to read and study and understand I've

been studying that thing for over 30 years and every time I open it up I

learn something new and that is not even a stretch of the truth and I had to take a class on the book of Romans and pass

it to get my credentials it's required it's a tough book

we take it in little tiny bites try taking all 16 chapters and have to

remember it all and take a test on it thank God we have a wonderful God who is loving and caring and will give us

answers when we need him is there one more slide

Chris okay it earn it The Sermon on the Mount it ends with the statement that

those who heard it were astonished at his Doctrine because Christ taught with

authority and not as the

scribes this is super important for you to wrap your mind around what

is said in The Sermon on the

Mount because it covers everything and will give you

complete victory ictory over everything if you can apply the principles that

Jesus taught on he spent his whole time teaching this sermon telling people it's

not what you see it's not what you think it's what the word says if you apply that it will change

your life he talks about having the right attitude towards God having the

right attitude towards other people that's what what the Beatitudes are about okay having correct attitudes

being humble being Meek having peace blessed are the

peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God I mean it's all in there

everything we're supposed to do you have to embrace

it and you have to be honest about it and ask yourself God God am I actually

doing this or am I thinking I'm doing

it examine me examine my heart show me where my motivations are help me

understand what I need to be doing and go forward from there lord it's

tough because when it comes right down to it if you're going to live a Victorious Life In Christ

and do what James said which was submit unto God resist the devil and he'll flee from you you're going to have to fight

for it he ain't going to give it to you the devil ain't going to roll over and play

bit he's going to do to you what he did to Christ have you ever read the first part of Matthew chapter 4 when Jesus is

tempted in the wilderness after he's been baptized he goes what's a devil do tries to make him doubt who he is tries

to make him doubt who God is and he then he tries to get him to worship him if he

did it to Christ what makes you think he's not going to try it on

you you need solid weapons to defend yourself Jesus gave them to you they're

in The Sermon on the Mount you're not fighting other people you ever had

somebody who gets on your last nerve and then jumps up and down on it that's not a person that's fighting

with you that's somebody being influenced Ed by the enemy to fight with you that's a person that you need to

begin to pray for Jesus said love your

enemies that's included in

this and when we get through this I believe you're going to have a

whole lot more weapons in Your Arsenal than you even realize that you have right

now and that's the point you have to be

equipped to be able to go and do what God called you to do you have to have the right

tools yeah you ever had to work on something had no Tools in your toolbox and wound up borrowing tools from

everybody you could find trying to get something fixed God doesn't want you doing that he wants you to have tools in

your toolbox he wants you to have weapons in Your Arsenal and he will give them to you if you understand where they

come from and that's why we're going into this because I you prepared we're we're

going to do something that we haven't done in a long time we're getting ready

to step out by faith and take this town back we're

starting out by opening up our Ro Rangers and missionet Ministries again do you think the devil wants you

reaching the kids that live in this town I last Wednesday night when I left

here I drove through papor on my way out of town I drove past the Church of God

over here they have Services twice a week on Sunday morning 9:30 and 11: that's

it I drove past the um well the Spanish assembly it's a SPD

assembly they have a service in Spanish a service in English both on Sunday

morning and then on Tuesday night they have a bilingual service and that's it they're not trying to reach the kids

they're not doing anything like that we're in a

town that will take these kids and take them on a joy ride to hell and the only

thing standing between them and that joy ride to hell is the people in this

church if that doesn't scare you nothing

will because we can't can't let that generation of kids in this town go down

that path we took a stand here

before we had more kids coming to this church than we had rooms to put them

in we had Royal Rangers we had missionettes we had kids church all of those things do you think God Has

Changed he has not do you think kids are still important to

him Matthew chapter 9 Jesus said suffer you the little children uh Mark chapter 9 I'm sorry he said suffer you the

little children to come unto me hinder them not there's nobody here trying to reach

them every time I think about what we're preparing to do I think about Nathan ay

who used to live across the street and me running in into him as a 30-year-old

man saying the things that happened at that little church across the street

from my house is the reason I'm saved today yeah I got into gangs I got into

trouble he says but in the depths of my trouble when I cried out to God it was

because of the things that I had learned across the street from my

house and I knew I could trust

God still serving God today he's in his 40s now

what you do matters it matters to

God and it definitely matters to the kids that live in this town and here's the thing if you reach those kids you're

going to reach their parents eventually their parents are going to want to know what you're doing

with their kid if they care about their kids at all

and then you get to witness to the parents and and earlier in the year I

gave you some statistical information on what happens in families based on who gets

saved if you reach a dad 92% of the families will continue to go to church

and stay in church if you get a dad saved if you get a mom saved it's about

60 if you get a kid saved it's three

three so I want you to realize just how

important what we're about to do

is you ladies that are getting ready to start teaching missionet your mission is through those

kids to reach their parents and to train those kids what's

it say in Proverbs 22 and6 train up a child the way he should go

when he's old he shall not depart from it so you're you're helping the parents get their kids trained but in the

process you're also trying to reach to that parent through their daughters you men that are going to

teach Royal Rangers I taught Ro Rangers for 13 years I know what that Ministry does I've been

in every aspect of that Ministry and I can tell you what that Ministry does you reach that boy you can reach his dad

because dads are that way if you're doing something good in

his son's life he's going to come to see you to find out what what's what it is that you're doing that's making his son

a better a better son it's making his son a better citizen making his son a better member

of the community that dad's coming to find out that Mom's going to come and find out what are you doing to teach

this young lady how to be respectful how to be a young lady how to how to live this life and how to have this right

attitude that they're no longer fighting with that parent anymore to that the parents trying to get them to do what

they need to do they're coming to see you and when they do you have the

opportunity to harvest the soul for the kingdom of God everything that we do every Ministry

that we approach in this church is not about John

more and it's not about you it's about reaching souls for the kingdom of God

and letting God built his church however he chooses to build it

and however he big he wants to build it that tell you God showed me some things in my spirit if they actually happened

you guys if I told you what they are you guys would call for the men in white

coats cuz you tell me I'm insane

but I can tell you for a fact God is not done with this church he's made a lot of

promises in the past to this church and he's beginning to fulfill

those promises we are broadcasting live we're reaching over a thousand people a

week the district office doesn't what to think because they come out here to

close the church and now it's like

going to touch that church God's Alive and Well and

popular faithful you chose to follow

Christ and you stay do you pray for the people that left this church after brother chck

passed away you

should you should be praying for them you should be praying they find a church that that they can go to that they'll be

serving Christ in that church and not following the pastor because that's a form of idol

worship you should love your pastor you should have respect for your pastor you should support the Ministries that your

pastor is trying to do but by no means should you leave the church if he leaves the church or he dies in

office Chris can you switch to that slide that's got the names of the pastors of this church for the over in

the past sister Leon she was sharing with

you this church been here for 71 years 71

years those are your three previous pastors George Grimsley is the pastor

who founded this church he came here in

1953 did you tell her the church is alive and well James

donie he was the pastor between brother Grimsley and Pastor brother chenn and if

I'm not mistaken I could be mistaken but he died when he was the pastor here at

least that's what Eugene told me Eugene Rush said Brother Don died here as the

pastor and then brother Chen withth came after that brother CH was here for 38 years he was here longer than the

previous two pastors and he stayed here well past retirement

age he passed away still serving God still preaching the gospel knowing

somebody was coming to pick up the mle and go

forward fell to me now I'm sharing with you it's time

for us to knock the rust off knock the dust off get our marching boots

on pick up our swords pick up our

swords and go forward you remember that song I'm in the Lord's

army so little kid song they used to teaching kid song I heard it I went to

church a few times before I got saved and when I say few I could count them on one hand but that's one thing I'll never

forget my mom sent us to church down in Pixley at the church of nazarin we lived

in Tipton and I'll never forget the one time I went to the Church of the Nazarene that song they sang in Sunday

school and everybody who participated got a

present h I was 10 and I remember that

song I'm in the Lord's army are you in the Lord's

army are you Marching In His infantry riding in his

Cavalry are you ready to take the devil and say you've taken enough we're taking

it back I've shared with you guys about Donnie Pope and anybody who grew up in

popper knows who Donnie Pope is is um because of this

church Donnie Pope got saved but he didn't get saved until he went to

prison he's been out of prison for about 12 years still serving God he actually

leads a Celebrate Recovery Group in three different churches now he's clean

he's sober and uh every time I see him he always says the same thing to me

would not be here if it wasn't for your church in Poler he said because I was the worst of them

all and if you talk to somebody from poer who knew him when he lived here

they will confirm that for you he was the biggest drug

dealer he was Hell on Wheels in

popper and then he got popped cuz people in this church started

praying and calling out his name

specifically your words have power Jesus told you

that you have what you

say now you may say it today and it might not take place for 5 10

25 years but you're going to have it

25 years ago God spoke through brother CH and said we were going to we were going to broadcast live from Poler and

everybody laughed CU at that time One camera cost over 10

grand okay and all the equipment to broadcast live in 19 it's probably

1998 would have cost $100,000 to get this church broadcasting

live you can ask sister lvon how much it cost us to broadcast live

was under $5,000 that's for everything screens

cameras equipment uh sound systems laptops everything was under

$5,000 God made a way where there not seemed not to be one the equipment all of a sudden was

very low cost now we're reaching 12200 people a

week our average is 186 people a

day every day never happened here

before but God never left here either when he has something for you to

do takes a while for it to happen but he intends for you to stay with it until it

does does and so we all are

encouraged to think back to all the things that God has said to us over the

years promises he made things he prophesied over this church and I can

guarantee you just like he made us broadcast live from poor all of those

things he said he will do we just have to remember that

and put him in remembrance of his word get everybody to stand with me