Intro - "Why not both?"

1. Two Options:

  - choose your path

  - choose who you listen to

  - choose who to depend on

  - choose your foundation

2. Admiration or Action?

3. A Choice of Life & Death

1. Wide and narrow

2. Healthy and diseased

3. Known and unknown

4. Rock and sand

5. How will you respond?

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Point 3

Conclusion

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INTRO: WHAT WE TREASURE THE MOST?

1. INVESTMENT OPTIONS

2. TRUST ISSUES

3. INVESTING IN THE KINGDOM

Introduction: The future brought forward.

a.    The present state is exposed.

b.    The perfect vision outlined.

c.    The solution given 

d.    The new reality dawns

Context: The Sermon on the mount and the future brought forward… 

a.    The present state is exposed.

b.    The perfect vision outlined.

c.    The solution given 

d.    The new reality dawns

Example 1: Giving to the needy (Matthew 6:1-4)

Example 2: Prayer (Matthew 6:5-15)

Example 3: Fasting (Matthew 6:16-18)

Conclusion: Your kingdom come 

Introduction

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Introduction: The Sermon on the Mount and it’s perfect vision for life

The purposes of the Sermon on the Mount

a.      To reveal the misuse of God’s law

b.     To reveal sin

c.      To reveal God the Father, the giver of the law

d.     To reveal Christ the fulfiller of the law

e.     To reveal a revolution for people of God (then and now)

1.     Oaths (Matthew 5:33-37)

2.     Justice and mercy (Matthew 5:38-42)

3.     Love of Neighbour (Matthew 5:43-48)

Conclusion: The Sermon on the Mount and it’s perfect vision for life