This chapter is offered as an example of how to teach by exposition (verse by verse) and to help disciple-making ministers teach their disciples to obey all of Christ’s commandments, many of which are found in the Sermon on the Mount. According to what Jesus said repeatedly in this sermon, only the holy will inherit God’s kingdom.
Below is the 8th chapter of The Disciple-Making Minister broken up into individual articles for easier reading.
- • The Sermon on the Mount
- • Jesus Gathers His Audience
- • The Blessings and Character Traits
- • The Character Traits of the Blessed
- • The Mournful
- • The Gentle
- • Hungering for Righteousness
- • The Merciful
- • The Pure in Heart
- • The Peacemakers
- • The Persecuted
- • Salt and Light
- • The Law’s Relationship to Christ’s Followers
- • The Importance of Keeping the Law
- • Of What Kind of Righteousness Was Jesus Speaking?
- • How to be Holier than the Scribes and Pharisees
- • Love Each Other, Unlike the Scribes and Pharisees
- • Be Sexually Pure, Unlike the Scribes and Pharisees
- • Another Way to Commit Adultery
- • A Different View
- • Be Honest, Unlike the Scribes and Pharisees
- • Don’t Take Revenge, as do the Scribes and Pharisees
- • Don’t Hate Your Enemies, as do the Scribes and Pharisees
- • Do Good for the Right Motives, Unlike the Scribes and Pharisees
- • Prayer and Fasting for the Right Reasons
- • A Digression Regarding Prayer and Forgiveness
- • The Model Prayer Continues
- • The Disciple and His Material Possessions
- • The Bad Eye
- • The Covetous Poor
- • Don’t be a Fault-Finder
- • Encouragement to Pray
- • A Summarizing Statement
- • How to Recognize False Religious Leaders
- • A Final Warning and Summary
- • Answer to a Question
