Over the next month we are going to look at the sermon of all sermons. The sermon on the mount. It will serve as our counter cultural guide to kingdom living. In his most famous sermon he unveils what the kingdom really looks like. Jesus so beautifully turns righteousness and the kingdom of God upside down. The religious leaders at the time emphasized the external things, but Jesus emphasizes the internal things that spill over to the external things. He spoke with confidence, conviction, clarity and an authority that the religious leaders didn’t have. He challenged traditions, he cherished people and he called unlikely people to be a part of a new kingdom. In fact, He is still calling unlikely people to it today. In this message, we will see who actually inherits the keys to the kingdom (it's not who culture thinks).
