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Emphasizing the historical distance between the New Testament and our contemporary culture, The Sermon on the Mount by Scot McKnight, part of the new The Story of God Bible Commentary series, offers helpful contextual insights for those seeking to discern how to live out the Bible in today’s world. Perfect for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and lay people alike, this highly...

Beginning Jesus’ greatest Sermon with a list of the good guys implies (and the parallel at Luke 6:20–26 makes it explicit) a corresponding list of bad guys. Matthew will provide for us in Matthew 23’s “woe” sayings an alternative list of bad guys. Not only that, Jesus finds all the “wrong” people on God’s side and all the “right” people against God. Dallas Willard calls this a list of “God-based inversion” and the “hopelessly blessables” and finds at work a “gospel for the silly world.”2 Such a list
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