Upside Down Kingdom: Sermon on the Mount part 5

Doc Ryan with Expedition 44 and Pastor Matt Mouzakis   


• Get our focus off of the acquisition of possessions and money
because they run contrary to the kingdom vision; be generous and
store up treasures in heaven. You can only serve 1 master.
 • Don’t worry or be anxious because God knows your needs
and he provides.  


• Our role as humans is to love and show mercy; we are
ambassadors of God’s reconciliation. God alone is judge.  


• We are called to discern but not condemn.  


• The sermon on the mount is an invitation to a new way to live-
the kingdom way to live 


• It is not to simply accept and believe in Him but to live like
Jesus and do what he says 


• The only acceptable response of a follower is to embrace this
way of life.  


• “Doing and practicing” are more ordinary terms that would have
equaled the definition of righteousness in the mind of a Jew
during Jesus time. This righteousness we are called to is to
conform our life and behaviors to Jesus’ kingdom vision.  


• James 1:22​-25 22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so
deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the
word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at
his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away
and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks
intently into the perfect law that gives freedom and continues in
it—not forgetting what they have heard but doing it—they will be
blessed in what they do. 


 • The sermon on the mount is not legalistic or Torah on
steroids. To respond to the sermon in the mount is not to respond
to an ethical or moral vision… it is to respond to Jesus our
King. Our proper response is to declare Jesus and who he is by
the way that we live.