DO YOU BELONG IN GOD'S KINGDOM?

First up, let’s check who is giving this ‘Sermon on the Mount’ and to whom. (Matt 5)

The Messiah, the ultimate King of the Jews, has emerged from obscurity and broken tradition by choosing Jewish disciples that follow Him up a mountain to be taught.     
It is instructive to us BUT... is it Church teaching as many pastors claim?  
What Church??...there will be no such thing for at least another 3 years!

So let’s see if you or I qualify to be in this Kingdom...    

Do we ‘tick the boxes’?

• Meek...even behind the steering wheel?
• Pure in heart?... always?
• Is my witness like salt of the earth?...  or the light of the world?

Unlike us today, they’re still under the Law here – every last one of the laws!        
(How about #10 about not being covetous?)                                                                    
Now the bar gets raised even higher!...

• What about being reconciled with my brother?  (Oh, let’s not go there!)
• Okay, that messy adultery business...     Oh, you’ve never cheated??                      What about that lustful look just once?...or that inappropriate friendship?
• A man of my word – always!
• Turn the other cheek...but more than that...
• Love those enemies!

..and the ultimate test:

• Be perfect!...just like your Father in heaven

How did you score?  Pass with flying colours??


The Sermon on the Mount continues...
http://guvsdesk.blogspot.com.au/2017/06/audience-of-one.html