The Sermon on the Mount

The Sermon on the Mount Part 5 - Threshing, Shaking, and the Throne of David (54 min)

The Sermon on the
Mount is describing the "threshing and winnowing" process Jesus came
to establish to sift the earth to separate out a people who want to live under
His leadership forever.  The threshing floor in the Bible becomes the place
of night and day prayer to music, called David's Tabernacle.  This night
and day calling on God ENTHRONED God in Israel during David's reign.  Jesus is going to sit on David's
Throne....Jesus will operate His government the same way David did...by
ENTHRONING Himself on the praises of His people.  This is dynamically
connected to the threshing floor of the Sermon on the Mount.  This message
explores the connection of these concepts to the very purpose Jesus came to
accomplish:
Matthew 3:10-12
 And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every
tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
 11  I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is
coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He
will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.  12  His winnowing
fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and
gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable
fire."

The Sermon on the Mount Part 4 - The Antidote to Falling Away (55 min)

The Sermon on the Mount is about learning to practically pursue a "love of the truth."  This will protect the end time Church...called the Bride...from the delusion that is, even now, infecting the Church and the world.  This was promised to happen.  We desperately need to learn to love the truth....2 Thessalonians 2:1-12  Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,  2  not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.  3  Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,  4  who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.  5  Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?  6  And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.  7  For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.  8  And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.  9  The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,  10  and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.  11  And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,  12  that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Sermon on the Mount Part 3 - The SAFETY of Generosity (52 minutes)

The
Sermon on the Mount teaches us how to climb God's Holy Mountain to safety
BEFORE the storm of the Great Tribulation makes landfall.  One of the key
aspects of safety is generosity.  God doesn't need your money.  You
need to break the heart ties to it before the antichrist uses your fear of
money against you.
 Generosity
is safety over and over in the Bible:
 Isaiah
32:7-15  Also the schemes of the schemer are evil; He devises wicked plans
To destroy the poor with lying words, Even when the needy speaks justice.
 8  But a generous man devises generous things, And by generosity he
shall stand.  9  Rise up, you women who are at ease, Hear my voice;
You complacent daughters, Give ear to my speech.  10  In a year and
some days You will be troubled, you complacent women; For the vintage will
fail, The gathering will not come.  11  Tremble, you women who are at
ease; Be troubled, you complacent ones; Strip yourselves, make yourselves bare,
And gird sackcloth on your waists.  12  People shall mourn upon their
breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.  13  On the
land of my people will come up thorns and briers, Yes, on all the happy homes
in the joyous city;  14  Because the palaces will be forsaken, The
bustling city will be deserted. The forts and towers will become lairs forever,
A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks— 15  Until the Spirit is poured
upon us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, And the
fruitful field is counted as a forest.
 We
live in the generation that will see the fullness of this promise...

Sermon on the Mount Part 2 - Introduction to the Bridal Paradigm (46 min)

The Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ is really telling the story of a wedding...our wedding.  The end time wedding is about legal family position, becoming sons of God.  All of creation is longing for this to happen.  There are two enemies warring against this: the gates of hell and our own flesh!The Sermon on the Mount teaches us how to deal with our flesh and put on righteousness...glory...that we will wear forever.If you care about the clothes you wear now, you will REALLY care about what you have chosen to wear forever!Revelation 19:7-8  Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready."  8  And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Sermon on the Mount 101: an Overview of Matthew 5, 6, and 7 (51 min)

Sermon on the Mount 101: an Overview of Matthew 5, 6, and 7 (51 min)

Ignoring the Trouble (27 min)

Worry about tomorrow tends to keep us from changing...it is easier to ignore the trouble we see coming another day.  There is a cost for ignoring the trouble of today.

Grace FOR Holiness (25 min)

Grace FOR Holiness