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Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and His Confrontation with the World: An Exposition of Matthew 5–10 is unavailable, but you can change that!

“I am deeply convinced that the church of Christ needs to study the Sermon on the Mount again and again,” writes D. A. Carson. In his popular explanation of Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 5–10, this renowned author clearly presents the inescapable demands on the believer to live a pure and dedicated life. As Carson covers the Sermon on the Mount and the events that follow, he blends good writing,...

eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, and with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit” (Isa. 57:15). Again: “To this man will I look, namely to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word” (Isa. 66:2). Poverty of spirit is the personal acknowledgment of spiritual bankruptcy. It is the conscious confession of unworth before God. As such, it is the deepest form of repentance. It is exemplified by the guilty publican in the corner of the
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