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The theme of Matthew’s Gospel is Jesus and what it means to follow him as his disciple and serve him, our King. But the scope of his Gospel is quite amazing: in his opening verse, Matthew takes us all the way back to Abraham, and in his closing verse, he takes us all the way forward to the close of the present age. Matthew offers us a view of life and of the world that is grounded in God’s plan...

So what do we have in the Sermon on the Mount? The first theme we find is a description of the character of those who belong to the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Before we come to hear his standards, we stand before this portrait of his subjects. This passage, in which Jesus describes his followers as ‘Blessed’, is known as the ‘Beatitudes’ (from the Latin word for blessing). It is important to note that the Sermon on the Mount is descriptive before it is prescriptive.
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