Curt Fleck

Matthew follows the Sermon on the Mount in chapters 5-7 with two chapters of miracles performed by Jesus. At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, we learn the audience was amazed by Jesus’ teaching because He was teaching as “one having authority” (Matthew 7:28-29). It is not by mistake that Matthew spends the […]

Matthew devotes two chapters to sharing Jesus miracles. Immediately following the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew writes that the people were astonished as Jesus spoke as “one having authority” (Matthew 7:29). Matthew then goes on in chapters 8 and 9 to show that Jesus not only has authority over the law and matters of their

This section of Matthew is the grand finale of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. He finishes His message about the Kingdom of Heaven with an invitation to enter. The sermon began with a description of ‘who’ citizens of the kingdom are by listing their attributes in the beatitudes. He described ‘what’ kingdom citizens should be

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus has covered the ‘who’ citizens of the kingdom are, then in the next three verses He told them ‘what’ they should be to the world around them, salt and light. He then challenged the dead religion of outward acts by taking everything back to the heart. He started