Sermon On The Mount
JESUS’ teaching from the mountain top, ~ Matthew: 5-6-7, provides a picture of the
essence of JESUS’ earthly ministry.
In The Sermon on the Mount, JESUS’ lays out for the fundamental characteristics of a
citizen of The Kingdom of GOD. HE teaches us what it means to be a disciple, primarily
that attitudes of the heart cultivated by love for GOD and man, which moves one to
righteous actions constitute genuine faith and is pleasing to GOD.
The particular section of scripture portrayed in the window, is when JESUS’ notes in
Chapter 6 of Matthew, “the lilies of the field, how they grow, they toil not, neither do
they spin and yet I say unto you, that even Soloman, in all his glory, was not
arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if GOD so clothe the grass of the field, which
today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall HE not much more clothe you?
O ye of little faith.
The summary of this section of Scripture being verse 33: “But seek ye first The
Kingdom of GOD and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto
you."
Directly across in the Old Testament window, Moses comes down from the mountain
with the tablets of stone, on which are written, The 10 Commandments. JESUS
“comes not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it” and gives us a new law to be written on
the fleshy tablets of the heart.
The Woman at the Well”
CHRIST taught only in public ways as The Sermon on the Mount, but also in the lives of
individuals in their ordinary routines of life.
Such is the case with The woman at the well.
JESUS takes the occasion of a woman coming to get water from Jacob’s well and after
asking her for a drink of water, HE turns the conversation quickly to the well of life and
living water that HE could give to her.
JESUS shows this Samaritan woman how that GOD cares for all people and that GOD
truly is no respecter of classes of persons and that GOD accepts worship to HIM that is spirit and
truth, not unlike the case of Ruth directly across from this window, whom GOD honored
for her faithfulness, although she was a Moabite and not an Israelite.
At the end of the conversation, JESUS reveals HIS identity as HIS Apostles return from
town. This Samaritan woman then immediately becomes one of the most effective
personal workers in history, bringing people from town to see HIM.
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