The Good Life
A People in Search of a King: A Bible Study on Joshua, Judges, and Samuel
Talk 1: You Lack One Thing
Welcome to our brand-new Feast series, The Good Life.
We start a 10-week adventure into the Sermon on the Mount, the greatest talk ever told, preached by the greatest Preacher of all time.
The key message of Talk 1: You lack one thing.
Talk 2: Salt and Light
This is the second installment of The Good Life, our exciting teaching series on The Sermon on the Mount.
Found in Matthew 5-7, the Sermon consists of 111 verses, with 2,500+ words in the original Greek manuscripts. The core of the Sermon we pray daily: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, May your kingdom come, May your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:9-10 NIV)
The Our Father is the password that unlocks the entire Sermon. Jesus is bringing His Kingdom down here into our broken world.
The key message of Talk 2 is: You are the salt of the earth, you are the light of the world.
Talk 3: Lord, Help me Forgive
Welcome back to our Feast Talk Series on the Sermon on the Mount called The Good Life. In the Sermon, Jesus presents six laws from the Law of Moses and then offers His radical interpretation of it.
The six laws He picked on are: (1) Murder; (2) Adultery; (3) Divorce; (4) Oaths; (5) Eye for an Eye; and (6) Love Your Neighbors.
We’ll be covering these six in the next three talks.
Jesus’ take on these six laws was so revolutionary, and must have been surprising to His Jewish audience, who thought holiness was just about behavior. By picking the six laws, Jesus was telling His disciples that in this new Kingdom, the law wasn’t enough. God doesn’t want behavior modification but inner transformation.
Talk 3 of The Good Life series centers on the message: Forgive those who do not deserve to be forgiven.