Curt Fleck

As Jesus taught through the Sermon on the Mount, His major point of emphasis was to take all matters of life and point toward our heart. In the first part of Matthew six, Jesus dealt with acts of righteousness or worship and emphasized that the outward acts are not the focus, the heart is! Beginning […]

In the middle of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus dealt with the subject of the heart and the motivation behind practicing righteousness. In Matthew 5, Jesus elevated the Law of Moses to be more than outward acts. He emphasized that these outward acts flow from the heart. Your heart determines your actions, and God’s

Jesus is preaching the Sermon on the Mount. He began in Matthew 5:1-12 telling his audience ‘who’ followers of God are by their characteristics, known as the beatitudes. He then moved to the “what’ they are to be to the unbelieving world around them, Salt and Light, according to Matthew 5:13-16. After He deals with

In this passage, Jesus has just begun preaching the Sermon on the Mount. He has laid the foundation of what characteristics the citizen of the kingdom will have. He said that the humble person who mourns over their sin against God will be gentle, thirst for righteousness, merciful, pure, and peacemaking. The Lord says those