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Sermon On The Mount In Matthew Analysis

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In The Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapters 5-7, Jesus outlines the right ways for Christians to approach God and deal with other people. Jesus begins the sermon with The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-12), Jesus said that the truly fortunate people are those that are rich in the things that matter to God, not those who have money, power, and social fame. Jesus goes on about anger and revenge ( Matthew 5:21-26, 38-48), one of the Ten Commandments says, “You shall not murder,” but Jesus says do not even stay angry or even hold a grudge against another human. Even if we think about revenge, we are already guilty of sin. In the Old Testament law was “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” Meaning if someone was injured, the person who caused the injury should be injured in the exact same way, but Jesus said we should love our enemies, just as God loves us. …show more content…

Then Jesus gives us the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13), the Lord’s Prayer is Jesus’s model of a perfect prayer. Jesus talks about the problems of money (Matthew6:1-4, 6:19-21, 6:24), Jesus said that being rich can distract us from our duties to God and other people (Matthew 19:23-24). We should put our trust in God and not in the uncertainty of money. Jesus the gives us the Golden rule (Matthew7:1-5, 7:12), Jesus says “In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you… (Matthew 7:12),” the “Golden Rule” gives us an idea that we treat people like we want to be

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