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Sermon on the Mount—The Message of the Kingdom is unavailable, but you can change that!

There is no other section of Scripture that brings you face to face with your own humanity and the grace of salvation as the Sermon does. As Christ masterfully expounds on the Kingdom of Heaven, He presents believers with the perfect standard of the Christian life. Kent Hughes faithfully explores the words that penetrate our hearts, and brings forth the lessons from this matchless model of the...

devastating experience. If pastors preached on sin, says Colson, many people would flee their church pews never to return.2 The abiding fact is that man has always been in need of such an encounter. And to this end Jesus has given the second Beatitude, because it shows the necessity of truly facing one’s sin. So no one would miss the point, the Lord put this in the most striking language. TRUTH UPSIDE-DOWN When read apart from its context, the second Beatitude is startling: “Blessed are those who
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