The setting forth of the Sermon on the Mount is an almost perfect codification of the religion of Jesus Christ. It covers the essentials. It is practical and personal. It is definite, specific, and yet widely illuminating. Once the true meaning of the instructions has been grasped, it is only necessary to begin putting them into practice to get immediate results. The magnitude and extent of these results will depend solely upon the sincerity and thoroughness with which they are applied. That is a matter which each individual has to settle for himself.
If you really do wish to become a different person altogether in the sight of God and man, then Jesus, in his Sermon on the Mount, has clearly shown you how it is to be done.
If you are prepared to break with the old man, and start upon the creation of the new one, then the study of the great Sermon will indeed be to you the Mountain of Liberation.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves
(James 1:22).
The most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not we will become the new person that God intended us to be. Multitudes upon multitudes have already embarked on this journey of being reborn as a child of God. Many more have not made the decision or have faltered in their transformation. Our success in this most critical process depends upon a true understanding that is put into practice with sincerity and thoroughness.
The sermon on the Mount is a great place to gain the true understanding needed to build this new person. Over the next few days, we will review this sermon in an attempt to facilitate a full understanding of it, with the prayer that we might help illuminate the path that the sermon so clearly describes. That path, well traveled, leads inexorably to the Eden God created for us here and forever in heaven.
On the Mount,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
I’m intrigued. I’ve always loved the sermon on the mount, which I believe Dallas Willard calls the greatest gift Jesus ever gave besides Himself. I’ll be sure to stop by again for more. God bless.
Chris Wiles
http://www.thornscompose.wordpress.com
Thanks, Chris. It is always a blessing to have folks drop by the Garden. It is the author’s prayer that the reader is as blessed there as is the author. Drop in anytime and feel free to share the Garden with anyone you like.
peace
Z