Best Sermon Ever: Driving Desires

Find Jesus, community, and purpose. https://southeastcc.org Series about Jesus' most iconic sermon, the Sermon on the Mount. This teaching is so rich and relevant that many have considered it the best sermon ever. Okay, are you guys ready to go to work? Here we go. We have a mountain of material to get through, and we have a parking lot of time. We are not going to do this passage justice. We're just not, there's going to be six sections that we're going to talk about today, and every single one of them deserves their own sermon, if not their own sermon series. What I want to do is show you the flow of thought that Jesus is using as he's going through this Sermon on the Mount, because this whole section is connected together and it's connected to what comes before and after it, which is important to know too. What we talked about last week was this whole idea that Jesus didn't come to do away with the law, he  came to fulfill it. So, whatever he's inviting us to is about fulfilling the law. We talked about how, if your righteousness doesn't surpass that of the Pharisees, the teachers of the law, that you're not going to have your place in the kingdom of heaven. The problem with that is that it feels like, as we're having this conversation, we can care about truth, but it has to be encompassed in the bubble of loving God and loving people. Remember, we talked about that, the mind of God has to be encapsulated in the heart of God. That's what we were talking about. So, what a lot of people came to me with this weekend, it’s a good question. It's a good wrestling match which was, “Hey, it feels like you’re removing the rules, and that we’re just supposed to get along.” It's a good wrestling match because what we're inviting you into is a tension. It's not a resolution. It's a tension. Relationship is a tension. What Jesus is calling us into is not a checklist of do's and don’ts, it's a relationship with God and a relationship with people, and that's tension. Think abo