10.4 Sermon on the Mount

Question 1

What does the Sermon on the Mount teach us about money?

Answer 1

• no one can serve two masters
• store up your treasures in heaven
• love God, not money

Question 2

What does the Sermon on the Mount teach us about judgement?

Answer 2

• Matthew- ‘Do not judge, or you too will be judged.’
• how we judge others in this life will be turned against is in the next life and we will be judged with the exact level of harshness that we judged with in our lives
• we are not fit to judge others, only God judges
• Matthew-‘Why do you look at the speck of saw dust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in tour own eye?”
• it is hypocritical to do this

Question 3

What does the Sermon on the Mount tell us about fasting?

Answer 3

• Jesus tells us not to make it noticeable when we fast because God knows and no one else needs to know. We will receive our reward in Heaven, while hypocrites have already been awarded with self-satisfactions
• evidence: ‘When you fast, do not look sombre, as hypocrites do’.

Question 4

What does the Sermon on the Mount tell us about prayer?

Answer 4

• Jesus says we should not give to the needy in front of other and says ‘If you do, you will have no reward from your Father om heaven’.
• Jesus says that those who publically give to the needy have ‘received heir reward in full’, so they will get no reward in heaven

Question 5

What does the Sermon on the Mount tell us about giving to the needy?

Answer 5

• Jesus tells us that those who pray in public have ‘received their reward in full’, but if you pray in private God ‘will reward you’.
• we shouldn’t babble ‘for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.’ So we should say the Our Father, as those who forgive will be forgiven.

Question 6

How does the Sermon on the Mount tell us we cannot have two masters?

Answer 6

• evidence: ‘No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”- Matthew
• a strong relationship with God will gain more rewards eternally, while possessions you have on Earth will be of no use after you die

Question 7

How does the Sermon on the Mount tell us we should store up our treasures in heaven?

Answer 7

• evidence: ‘Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.’ -Matthew
• all the treasures you have gathered will have no meaning in the after life
• there are physical treasures and the relationship we build with God
• the treasures that we build with God will be taken to Heaven

Question 8

How does the Sermon on the Mount tell us we should love God, not money?

Answer 8

• when Jesus said the widow gave more than others he meant that she gave her all
• the rich offered there leftovers as offerings, even though it was a lot of money, it held no meaning and was no a sacrifice. The widow gave only two coins, which was everything she owned, it was a sacrifice
• she gave out of her poverty, while the rich gave out of their wealth

Question 9

Why should we use the Sermon on the Mount as a guide?

Answer 9

• because it is a teaching of Jesus that is from God and must therefore be followed
• if Jesus says you cannot do something, the Christians should believe him