God, centuries before, had given to his people the Law through Moses on Mount Sinai and the Son of God gives the New Law on another mountain. What we know as the Ten Commandments does not exhaust God's thought about the behavior that expects and demands of His people. Jesus Christ according to his own words, did not come to abolish the law of the old testament, but to give it perfect compliance. (Mt 5:17 NAB). The Sermon on the mount leads to the Natural Law and the Law of Moses to its peak of perfection. The Sermon on the Mount is a synthesis of the principles that constitute the ideal of Christian life. It is a wonderful compendium of the moral doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ. No one has said anything that compares to it. Moreover, nobody …show more content…
But what is it the messages enclosed in each of the Beatitudes that Jesus wants us to follow? And the relationship between grace and the Law or Christian Ethics as revealed in this sermon as in any other part of the Bible. To answer all these question, this essay will begin with an introduction, fallowed by brief historical background of the Sermon on the Mont. Next, it will examine and analyze in detail each of the blessings to give us an idea the spirit that we should be taken to enter the Kingdom of God and will also examine the relationship between Jesus Christ and the Old Law or Decalogue. Finally, the essay will be closed with a conclusion in which I hope to have enough information to answer the two questions, what is the message of the blessings and the relationship between the New and Old Law seeing through the Sermon on the …show more content…
The historical context of the Gospel of Matthew is framed by the earthly life of Jesus and is considered that it was written at the end of the first century. In the year 70 the Romans made the capture of Jerusalem and as a result: there were destruction of the temple, Jews death and sale of slaves. The Jewish faith was broken by these events and the task of a religious renovation inside and outside becomes mandatory. For Matthew, Jesus was not against the Law, instead, he purposed the fulfill of it. To fulfill the Law is related to justice, which Matthew understands as a work ethics; in this way, it is prime condition for salvation. But how the people gather in the mount heard and understood this new kind of salvation. The feelings of those who were listening to Jesus had to be complicated since their moral was on the floor because of the oppression of the Roman Empire. The Apostles themselves had to puzzled, listening to things that the teacher never had said before, until then. They heard the Lord very motivated but perhaps more scared and confused. Most of Jesus’ listeners did so for the first time. They were ordinary people,
S: Well, as followers of Jesus we should fulfill the Jewish law; we should even take it as far and fulfill it better than the Pharisees and scribes. In my opinion, the Gospel of Matthew does not tell to abandon the Jewish law; it in fact, says the opposite. Jesus fulfills this Law and prophecy!
In the Bible’s New Testaments the book of Matthew is of Gospels genre. In the Old Testament God appointed the people who we know as prophets. They were the ones to describe Jesus life and work. What they wrote, those things did happen during Jesus life on earth. The book of Matthew explains to everyone who doesn’t believe it that Jesus is Christ. It means that Christ is God’s King. People were told by the prophets that they will be saved by the Christ from punishment for their evil deeds. This is the book about Jesus life. It teaches what Matthew wrote in this book about what Jesus taught. It even included the speech by Jesus called “The Sermon on the Mount” in chapters 5-7. It even went on to say that many ill people were cured by Jesus, blind people were able to see again, deaf people were able to hear again and Jesus even freed people who were possessed by evil spirits. There were some people who happen to hate Jesus. Jesus was killed by those who hated him on a cross. According to the prophets they had already written that Jesus would die (Isaiah 53; Matthew 12:40). Jesus was the one to suffer all the punishment from other people’s evil deeds after his death (Matthew 20:28, Matthew 26:28).
The Torah contains many different legal codes, a distinction and comparison between them enlightens us to the fact that the same persons did not write them and that the different authors did not have the same background, perhaps not even the same culture. Nevertheless, in comparing the Ten Commandments and the Book of the Covenant, one notices the similarities more so than the differences, one would say that the vast majority of laws in the Book of the Covenant have a respective law in the Ten Commandments. From this one establishes that these legal codes have a common purpose.
The Ten Commandments are a set of rules and principles which are essentially rules of worship and ideologies enacted to give the new community of people who were fleeing from Egypt a set code to live by. God himself delivered the tablets, which had the commandments recorded upon them, to Moses atop of Mount Sinai. The Holiness Code, which follows the receiving of the Ten Commandments, further elaborates upon the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments are in essence setting rules that separate the good, religious people (those who abide by the commandments), and the sinners who do not follow the principles set forth by the Ten Commandments.
(4) We can be happy if we are willing to suffer for what we believe is
The Gospel of Matthew is an eyewitness story written for an audience of believers, under great stress, and persecution. Matthew develops a theological plot incorporating genealogy, speeches, parables, inter and intra textual references, common vocabulary, and fulfillment quotations, with a tension that builds as we are invited into the story. The crucifixion and resurrection bring us to a Christological climax that symbolically points beyond its conclusion to God’s Kingdom, bringing atonement, salvation and the ushering in the Eschaton. The extraordinary events surrounding the crucifixion act as commentary, adding important details concerning the death of Jesus.1
The issues raised by Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount number in the multitudes like the crowd that followed him the day he delivered it. Even if the crowd’s size was exaggerated for dramatic effect and that number is a small one, it still represents many questions. Some of these concerns have to do with what some commentators say the sermon meant. Other issues that arise concerning what Jesus actually said without the shadowy veil of interpretation. For those who illustrate the loudest about what Jesus said in the Sermon often live it the least. Preachers and politicians, for Jesus was political, instruct their followers and constituents how to live as Jesus said when their lives are hardly examples of the virtues Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount. That then has become the most serious issue raised by the Sermon, the interpretation of it.
Simply stated, “the word "gospel" means simply good news.” With that definition, then the good news would summarize all of the information found in the New Testament and the teachings of Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul recaps the most basic components in the gospel message. These are found in 1 Corinthians 15:1-8, specifically listed in 15:3-4 (NRSV) “For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures,”. “These verses, which were an early Christian confession, give us the heart of the gospel” and show the importance of three incidents; that Christ died
After Moses led the Hebrews through the desert, he was enlisted by God to act as a mediator between the Him and His people. Moses received the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai and received from God “multifarious enactments, by the observance of which Israel [was] to be moulded into a theocratic nation,” thus the installment of Mosaic Legislation on the Israelites. (Moses) Starting with the Ten Commandments, the Law of Moses is “the laws that God gave to the Israelites through Moses; it includes many rules of religious observances given in the first five books of the Old Testament.” (Mosaic Law) Among the guidelines set forth by God through Moses were guidelines regarding diet (Leviticus 11:3), the consecration of priests (Exodus 29:5-9) and marriage (Exodus
What are the societal, political, world or other issues that need to be considered in the development of the sermon?
The Bible student, laymen, or pastor will find the principles presented by Fee and Stuart helpful despite the weaknesses presented. The author’s contribution on how to interpret each of the different genres is especially beneficial. The Bible Student will have more knowledge of how to interpret God’s Word when finished with the work. Fee and Stuart achieve their goal helping the reader not only with interpretation, but with application.
Trull and Carter sum up the sermon on the mount by saying, “Character is basic to all ethical decisions. Who we are determines what we do. Jesus stressed that truth in his teachings, especially in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7).” Throughout His teachings, character and integrity are the central themes that Jesus emphasized on the
Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount can be seen as a sermon that pinpoints many optimistic views about life and nonviolent approaches to difficult situations. In Jesus' sermon, he explains what it means to live a good Christian life, no matter the struggles that come your way. He describes the blessings that will be given to those who follow in the path of righteousness. He also explains how to overcome anger with forgiveness. In his sermon he also gives advice on marriage, prayer, money, and trusting in God.
Unfortunately for Christians, there is actually very little law in the Bible -- either Old Testament or New -- that is original. Consider the Torah of the ancient Jews. The laws of the Babylonians, Assyrians, Sumerians, Hammurapi, Eshnunna, Hittites, Mishnah, and Israelites all bear a striking resemblance to each other, due to widespread copying of laws. Shared social norms produced identical laws against sorcery, kidnapping, sale of an abducted person, false witness, business dishonesty, bribing judges, property right violations, shutting off irrigation canals used by others, etc. The complete list of identical laws and customs is quite extensive. & nbsp; Nor is the New Testament's approach to the law unique.
The motif encompassing the kingdom of God can stand recognized recorded within Scripture; nevertheless, the appearances of God's kingdom remains remarkably striking in the Gospels and the New Testament. As it can hold notated within the mixture of perspectives pertaining the God's kingdom, disagreements remain discerned that remained detained by the people and that which prevailed established through Scripture. Essentially the Old Testament inaugurated the exposition of the kingdom of God, how both the Old and New Testaments presents the doctrines to whence the kingdom is to be known. Notwithstanding the distinction of the descriptions encompassing both the Messiah and God’s kingdom, irregularities persist in the custom for researching and