Key Idea Presumptive Continuity: All the legal and ethical material of the OT continues to obligate Christians today except where set aside by further NT teaching. Read more

Key Idea The world is changed for the good when Christ’s disciples are most unlike the world. The Sermon on the Mount is built on the assumption that Christians are different, and it issues a call to us to be different. Read more

Key Idea In the last Beatitude Jesus teaches that opposition is the normal mark of being a disciple, as normal as hungering and thirsting for righteousness or being merciful. Read more

Key Idea Peacemakers are known for the character of their heavenly Father. Read more

Key Idea Only those who realize they have an impure heart can say their heart is pure—and hope to see God. Read more

Key Idea Because God has graciously redeemed his people from the penalty of sin, they respond with sympathy and kindness to those suffering from the consequences of sin. Mercy begets mercy. Read more

No audio was recorded during this lecture. Key Idea Only those who have been redeemed by Christ are righteous in God’s sight; and because they are positionally righteous, they hunger and thirst to be made inwardly righteous like their Redeemer. Read more

Key Idea Meekness is neither weakness nor effeminacy, but a humble and gentle attitude towards others which is determined by a true estimate of oneself. Read more

Key Idea The virtues of the Beatitudes are those which the world despises; but because the people of God have not the mind of the world, they rightly are grieved by both their own sin and the brokenness of the world around them. Read more

Key Idea Far from addressing eight different, distinct groups, the Beatitudes describe eight character qualities of the same group of people, namely disciples. Read more