The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.

Oswald Chambers
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The Sermon on the Mount is a set of principles to be obeyed. When we read this, we want to think of Jesus’s followers living according to the principles he taught. Our lives need to be a reflection of the way we live when we are in his presence. This means that we can’t just read the Sermon on the Mount, but must get it into our hearts and minds.

In other words, we need to be transformed by it. Only then will we begin to understand what he meant when he said, “The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.”

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