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Matthew_3_-_Sermon_On_The_Mount.wma
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이번 것은 마태복음의 산상수훈 개요입니다. 미국에서 신학대 교수로 일하시는 Tim Berry 목사님의 설교로 5,6,7 장을 일목요연하게 연결시키고 있습니다. 산상수훈을 이해하는 데 퍽 도움이 되실 것입니다. ***************************************************************************************** Matthew – lecture 3 The Sermon on the Mount 2003 June, by Pastor Tim Barry Tonight, I am going to try something that might be a little bit unusual; I’d like to try do an overview of the Sermon on the Mount and just show consciously how they all fit together. And I’ll try it should be helpful for us to drive home for the application or what I think is the central theme of the Sermon on the Mount. I’m convinced that this has to be one of the greatest sermons ever preached in history. The more you study the Sermon, the deeper you go. Someone has said that it’s simple enough for a child to play in but it’s deep enough to drown the best swimmer. I think it’s true; in the Sermon on the Mount, there is simple true that a child can go and lay in it. But this sermon is so deep; it can drown the best swimmer. It really is a tremendous teaching of the Lord. Let’s just keep in mind that Matthew is the gospel of the kingdom. This is the gospel that primarily presents Christ as a king. And it presents us the characteristics of the kingdom citizens. And also this sermon is Jesus Christ’s first recorded instructions to the Twelve. Just the night before, he spent in prayer and then called to himself and he appointed the twelve to follow him as his apostles, and the very first instruction that Jesus gave them is this Sermon on the Mount. We mentioned before the theme of this Sermon on the Mount. You have two words that seem to express the theme. One of those two is the word ‘kingdom’: it occurs some 8 times in these 3 chapters. The word ‘righteousness’ is the other key word and it occurs some 5 times in these 3 chapters. So you could take those two words and put them together and some have done and you could say that the theme of the Sermon on the Mount is the ‘kingdom righteousness’ or ‘kingdom living’; that it is said unto for us the righteousness that characterizes the kingdom citizens. You say, ‘Well, what is righteousness?’ Strictly speaking, the righteousness is conformity to a standard. You could possibly define it this way: that righteousness is meeting your obligations in your God-given relationships. And one of those things that mark the kingdom citizens is that they are righteous, that they meet the obligations in their relationships. So if a man is a father, he is righteous in that relationship; if a man is a husband, he is righteous in that relationship; he is righteous with regard to his possessions and so on. In all the different relationships he has in life, he is meeting his obligation; that’s righteousness. And what characterizes kingdom citizens is righteousness above our will, according to the sermon. Having said that, in this sermon, how does Christ develop the theme of kingdom righteousness? I want us tonight, just walk through very quickly these three chapters of Sermon on the Mount. And I want us to see how different each of the sections of this sermon fit together. I want to argue that there are 6 divisions in this sermon. We’re just gonna progress right through these 6 divisions. You say “Well, where would you going to start if you were setting forth a sermon on kingdom righteousness, characteristics of kingdom citizens?” The answer is this: “How about a concise checklist of kingdom citizens characteristics?” And our first section in this sermon is verses 1 to 16 of chapter 5, the first 16 verses and you could summarize it this way: ‘a concise checklist of characteristics of kingdom citizens’. We call these ‘the Beatitudes’. They are 8 of them and first 4 seem to address a person and his relationship to God; that people who are kingdom’s citizens, they are marked by being poor in spirit. It’s that poverty in spirit that drives the man to Christ that leans to salvation. You become poor in spirit and you see what you really are, and you weep and you morn and you beg God for mercy because you are a depraved sinner. And theirs that meek thus that resignation to God that submission. While though your will submits to his. Well, you have the four characteristics related to a kingdom’s citizen and his relationship to God. But you have four more starting in verse 7. “Blessed are the merciful: you have the pure in heart; you have the peacemakers; you have those who are persecuted. Notice verse 13 mentions the word ‘earth’, and verse 14 mentions ‘the world’. These people who have these characteristics have the responsibilities toward the society. Yes, they are heavenly-minded. But they do a lot of earthly-good. And they like salt and new-worth it in a sin-cursed world. And they are lighting a light and you put him on a hill and there this bicken into people that are in darkness and change in their minds and so they do their responsibilities to society. And so our first section in this Sermon on the Mount, verses 1 to 16 of chapter 5 really presents to us a concise checklist of kingdom characteristics. But then, of course we as we’re looking at the Sermon on the Mount, we’re noting that the key characteristic is righteousness. And righteousness is meeting the obligations in our God-given relationships. What is one of the most important relationships of a kingdom citizen? The answer is what Christ picks up with in verse 17 and periods all the way to the end of chapter 5. Chapter 5, verse 17 through verse 48, that all regards the kingdom citizen and his relationship to the law. And just because a person is a member of the kingdom of Christ doesn’t mean he’s exempt from the law. Everything Christ did was a fulfillment of the law. In fact, there were in certain sense, in which his ministry goes beyond the law. And he says to this first century views who are familiar with the scribes and Pharisees and their meticulous righteousness about every detail, Christ said unto them “Listen, except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.” These Jews must have scratched their heads and thought to themselves, “Wow, how can you be more righteous than a Pharisee? How can you be more righteous than a scribe?” And the answer to that is that kingdom citizens and their relationship to the law, they are not just interested in keeping the letter of the law; that kingdom citizens are aware of the fact that there are underlying principals behind the law. And you can actually keep the letter of the law and violate the spirit. We can give you a lot of examples. For example, you can come to church and you can keep the letter of God’s law in a certain sense to assemble yourselves together, and you can miss the whole purpose of coming. The purpose is to meet with God. You don’t meet with God, then you miss the purpose of coming. So Christ in these verses of 17 to 48, a list out from the old testament and from the teaching of the Levis, he pulls out 6 statements and he suggests the underlying principals of God behind all those sayings. And a kingdom citizen is marked by his obedient relationship to the law. But you know, people who are careful in their obedience to the law, or are very careful in their relationships, and are very upright, people like that often have a problem. They often have a mixed placed motif for doing right. While they may be very careful with regard to the law, they are actually doing their righteousnesses (notice I make it a plural) not to be seen of God, but to be seen of men. And see that’s the point of the 3rd section of the Sermon of the Mount, chapter 6 verses 1 to 18. This 3rd section begins with this word, “Take heed”. By the way, this is after verse 48 in chapter 5, which says “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” But as you try to carry out these righteousness, ‘take heed that ye do not your deeds before men, to be seen of them’. Now, I’ve got a Cambridge Wide Version King James and next to the word ‘alms’ in verse 1, in the margin of my Bible the publisher, the translator included, put the comment ‘or righteousness’. I’d like to suggest you that possibly a better translation for the word ‘alms’ is ‘righteousness’. It’s a more general word. And Christ is introducing the topic of not doing your righteousness to be seen of men. So he says in verse 1 “Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.” And then he goes on to address three different duties which people often do before men. One of the things people often do to be seen of men, is their giving. They enjoy their giving in a way that people notice. And everybody know that they put the most in the offering plate. This doesn’t happen necessarily be monitory giving; you might be proud of your hospitality or all the people you have over or all the meals you would to give, and so on. But it’s anytime you give, you give it to be seen of men. And then, Christ goes on in verses 5 through 15 he discusses prayer. You know, prayer is supposed to be talking to God; that’s the definition of prayer. And one of the tragedies is that you could actually pray, but you’re not talking to God; you’re talking to men. Have you ever prayed in a way that you draw the attention of people? And they say to themselves, “Wow, she is spiritual; I mean, listen to her pray.” You know, you can even give pray requests in a way that magnifies your praying ability. And we really address our motif of prayer. But you’ve also gone to the 3rd area that Christ mentioned and that is the area of fasting, verses 16 to 18. You can fast to be seen of men. And really Christ’s point in this section is that a kingdom citizen is righteous in his motives; he is righteous in relationship to his kingdom duties. And really the whole solution to the problem of public performance of righteousness is simply this: “Have a relationship with your Father in heaven”. You will see that through verses 1 to 18, over and over again He mentioned ‘your Father’. Verse 1 ‘no reward of your Father’ and verse 4, ‘and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly’; verse 6 ‘pray to thy Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly’; verse 8 ‘for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of’, and so on. And frankly one of the dangers of kingdom citizens is that they are doing righteousnesses and they are performing kingdom duties, and they don’t have no real relationship with their Father. Yes, they may be saved but yet not active wipe of obedience, they are thoroughly no relationship with their Father. And it’s an amazing thing that somebody can be so, so careful in obeying the law, and so careful in tiding, and being sure they’re always praying everyday, and even sometimes they’re fasting, and they do all of these things and yet they really have no sense in their own personal lives of the presence of God. And you know this because of the way that you practice duties or public things that you could be seen of men. Have you ever done out soliting and you do it to be seen of men? Have you passed out tracks that you could tell people that you pass out tracks? Have you ever pray for somebody so you can tell them that you pray for them? When you’re singing in the church, do you kind of put a smile when the pastor looks at your direction and so as soon as he sees you, you start to smiling and you sing with your mouth a little bit open more because you want to say that you’re a very spiritual person? Have you ever been excited when the pastor has you turn to a page in your bible and boy, it’s heavily marked. You know there’s smirches, maybe copy stains or you spelled your copy on it, and you got all these writings on the margins in red ink, blue ink, things highlighted, and you think to yourself, ‘Wow, I hope the person next to me sees this page in my Bible, and sees how marked it is, that think I’m a real careful student of Scripture. There are so many things we do to be seen of men. It’s almost embarrassing frankly. And it really just points out the weakness of our relationship with the Father in heaven because if we were living for his approval we won’t care of what men thought. We’ve got to get back, as there’s title of a book, we’ve got to get back to practicing in the presence of God. How many times of a day do you consciously think of God that you’re consciously aware of him? That mean you pray, you pray for him; when you give, give for him, when you go soliting, you do it for him; not for any other relationship or others watching you. When you read your Bible, in your doing in for him, we’ve got to get back to doing thins for God; I mean that’s what is all about. We’re kingdom citizens living for our king. And so one of the problems with the kingdom citizens, sometimes is not righteous in their performance of kingdom duties and not righteous in their motives and they have no real relationship with their Father when they carry out the different duties of obedience. But you know, living before God, praying in secret, fasting in secret, giving in secret, these all require that you want your rewarding in a certain place. Because those pray in public, they have their rewards. People think they’re spiritual; that’s what they wanted; that’s what they got; and that’s all what they got. But you know, people who are right in their relationship with the Father, they are interested in setting up rewards in another place. And that’s the point of the next section of the Sermon on the Mount. And in verses 19 through 34, we have a fourth section of the Sermon on the Mount. Our first section is a concise checklist of characteristics of the kingdom citizens, our second section begins with the relationship to the law of God and one of the most important relationships that kingdom citizens have is to God’s law, for what God said in his thought. But it’s not just important what you do, but it’s also important why you do it and so thirdly, chapter 6 verses 1 to 18, kingdom citizens are concerned about their motives, they are righteous in their kingdom duties, they have relationships with their Father in heaven. And it’s their relationship to their Father in heaven that helps you to put your rewards in a right place. And our 4th section is chapter 6 verses 19 to 34, and this is the kingdom citizen and his relationship with his possessions. And kingdom citizen is marked by his relationship with his possessions. And this section is divided into two parts. It begins with your idea you treasuring your treasures. Notice verse 19, says ‘Lay not up for yourselves’. That’s really just a verb that translated as noun ‘treasure’ in that same verse. You could really read this way, ‘Treasure not up for yourselves treasures upon earth’. And five times in these verses you’ve got the word ‘treasure’. One of the issues for the kingdom citizens is where are you treasuring your treasures? But there are some people that don’t have as much trouble with treasuring their treasure as they do with anxieties over their needs. And that’s the last part of these verses, you could see 5 times, beginning with verse 25, ‘Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life’. That ‘take no thought’ is for being anxious or being overly concerned about something. It’s not saying that you can’t think about it; you’d better think about providing your family; but it’s saying that you’d better not overly concerned about it. And a kingdom citizen, in his relationship to his possessions, he neither treasures his treasure, nor he is anxious about his needs. And you say “Well, treasuring your treasure is probably for rich people, right? And anxiety over needs is for poor people, right?” And the answer is ‘No’. It’s true for either one. You have poor people who treasure their treasure as much as rich people and you have rich people who are very anxious over their needs. They are even concerned with all that they have; they are worried about it. It doesn’t matter whether you are poor or rich. We all struggle with our relationship to our possessions. A lady missionary named Isabel Khun made this comment, “Keep your treasures on the open palms of your hands.” One of the things we want to do is God give us things and we want to put it in our hand and we want to hold it like this (showing fisted hand). “Lord, this baby is mine. Lord, this car is mine. Lord, this house is mine. Lord, this ministry is mine. Lord, this job is mine.” And we get it, and we clutch it like this. We’ve got to keep our treasures in our open hands. And say to the Lord, “Lord, you gave me a car and I’m keeping it on my open palm. And it’s really yours; Lord, you gave me a baby and this baby is yours.” That’s how a kingdom citizen views his possessions. Then you get the chapter 7 and the 5th section of the Sermon on the Mount. By the time you get to the end of chapter 6, you might think to yourself. ‘Wow, I think I’m doing pretty well.’; that ‘I’m careful about keeping God’s laws and all the purposes behind it.; that I don’t’ pray to be seen of men; I don’t give to be seen of men; I don’t’ fast to be seen of men, I am careful about my possession; You know, I think I’m right.’ But you know, those people that sit in the char in front of me, I think they have some problems. I don’t think they have a righteousness.’ And guess what? That’s what Matthew chapter 7 verses 1 to 12 talks about next. Because especially kingdom citizen is marked by his relationships to others, and especially others with whom he disagree or differs. When you think you are right and somebody else not, the answer for a kingdom citizen is this: verse 1: “judge not, that ye be not judged. Or with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” And it’s talking about being overly critical. It is also talking about hypocritical spirit. Notice verse 3, “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.” You say, “Wow, I guess this is saying we should never have any discernment; we should never evaluate anybody; or we should never be negative. The answer to that is ‘No’. Look at verse 6. “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.” He’s not talking about dogs with four legs; he’s talking about dogs with two legs; people who reject the truth. How do you notice somebody is called a dog? You know that because you made an assessment and you have the sermon about that. So he’s not talking about any use of assessment; he’s talking about overly critical, and especially a hypocritical spirit. And kingdom citizen is marked by a certain relationship to the people with whom he disagrees or differs. And it really boils down to the ‘Golden Rule’; verse 12 of chapter 7. “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets. And you think to yourself, “Wow, all of his teaching, I mean that I’ve got to be right to the people whom I disagree with; I have a certain relationship to my possessions; I have a righteousness with my motives; I keep the law of God… I can’t possibly do this!” And you are right. And that’s really how verses 7 through 11 fitted. And it’s rightly in the section of being overly critical. And you say, “Oh, I need the grace of God. And you’re right. So ‘Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Your father will give you good things. He’ll give you Holy Spirit to those ask. And you desperately need God’s help to keep all of these things. That brings us to the last section in the Sermon on the Mount and that is in chapter 7, verses 15 through 27. And no good sermon ends without a to a response. This is Christ’s call for response. And he’s just called his audience to certain relationships and now he’s get to the end of his sermon and he calls to a response. He gives them 3 examples. He says this, kind of two gates. You have a narrow gate, and you have a wide gate. And if you are kingdom citizen, you have got to choose the narrow gate. Most people will go the other direction but you’ve got to go to that narrow gate. And not everybody who says that they’ve gone into the narrow gate really has gone into the narrow gate. You say ‘how do I know that they haven’t gone into the narrow gate?’ The answer is his next illustration. And that is the illustration of two trees or the two fruits. You will know the people that go into the narrow gate; you will know them by their fruits. Somebody professes that ‘Lord, Lord, I did all of these wonderful things in your name.’ And God will someday say to some of them “Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity.” They said one thing and they lived another. They’ve never been in the narrow gate. And you will know them by their fruit. And that really brings us to the final illustration as he concludes his sermon. He ends by giving us the illustration of two men, and everyone in this room is either of the two men. You’ve got two choices; when you hear the Sermon on the Mount, when you read it, when you hear him preach, you’ve got two choices. You could be, chapter 7 verse 24: you can be like a man ‘whosoever heareth these saying of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.’ But then you got so, verse 26, another one ‘that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not’, here is other choice, ‘shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell: and great was the fall of it.’ Everyone who is sitting in this room tonight, we’ve got two choices. You will be like one of these two men; you will be either wise man and you will do what Christ says or you will be a foolish man and you will not do what Christ says and someday your house will fall because it will be built on sand. And you build your house on anything other than the kingdom of God, your house will collapse someday. I’d just like to challenge you, “What are you living for?” If I had to choose one verse from these 3 chapters as the key verse, I would probably choose chapter 6, verse 33. This is one of the verses that have both of the two key words in it. “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” I just want to ask you tonight, “Are you seeking for the kingdom of God and his righteousness first?” You know, there have been people who have paid a dreadful price from a human standpoint in order to follow the kingdom of God. I think men like David Livingston, James Praisal, Hudson Tailor and C.T. Stud. Hebrews 11 says, Moses, by faith, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, and he gave up all what he had in order to live with the people of God, to suffer affliction with people of God. You know, really living for the kingdom of God is worth everything; there’s nothing else like it; there’s nothing else that satisfies; it is really like what Christ says. He says that “Kingdom of heaven is like treasure and it’s hidden in a field. And here’s a man, he finds the treasure and he sells all what he has and buys the field.” And Christ says that “Kingdom of heaven is like a man who is going around looking for pearls. And suddenly he comes across the most beautiful pearl he’s ever seen and he sells all he has and buys that pearl. Here Jesus Christ is suggesting the value of the kingdom. Young people, especially for you, don’t let the glitter of the world fool you; it is false goal, it’s a false dream, it’s a house on sand. You live for riches, you live for pleasure, you live for relationship in this life, you reap for those and someday your house will collapse. And what is worth living for? It’s to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; you give God everything you have; you build your house on a rock. And someday when rains descend and floods come, your house will stand because it is founded on a rock. May God really empty ourselves and may God make us find his righteousness and really live kingdom citizen and live for the kingdom of God first. Let’s close our eyes for prayer. Our gracious Father, we bow before thee tonight. We thank for the privilege to be your children, to be kingdom citizen through no merit of our own, with no righteousness of our own. We could never buy or earn such a kingdom. Father we praise thee that you’ve given us this stand as your sons, your daughters. And father, I do ask that you would enable us by your spirit to leave our eyes off of the treasures of this world and of this life and to lift up our eyes to look ahead to the future reword, to the world whose builder and maker is thyself. And Father, honestly we cannot do this with our own strength. The pour of the world is so strong. Give us the help of thy Spirit. May walk with him and not to fulfill the lust of our flesh. And give us, our heart, thy kingdom and may we do these all with thy power to advance thy kingdom. We asked this tonight, in His name.
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