• The Sermon On The Mount Quote By Oswald Chambers

  Contributed by Matthew Redder on Sep 25, 2018 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Matthew 5:1-7:29, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 6:15, Matthew 4:23

  Tags:  Disciples, Jesus Christ, New Creation, Devotional, Sermon On The Mount, Love Your Enemies, Oswald Chambers, Sermon, My Utmost For His Highest  (view more)  (view less)

  Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The impossibly difficult instructions found in the sermon on the mount have often troubled me.

When I think about loving enemies, turning the other cheek, giving to the poor, storing up treasures in heaven, etc... I often feel like there's NO WAY I can be successful in the correctives Jesus presents.

With that said, I think Oswald Chambers speaks to the dilemma incredibly well in his devotional, "My Utmost for His Highest", and here is what he says:

"The Sermon on the Mount is not an ideal, it is a statement of what will happen in me when Jesus Christ has altered my disposition and put in a disposition like His own. Jesus Christ is the only One Who can fulfill the Sermon on the Mount."

I think this quote can be helpful when preaching through the Sermon on the Mount and/or even when preaching through being a 'New creation IN Christ'.