In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches what it looks like to live FROM the heart and INTO a very real, present, and available Kingdom that He came to show His followers.
The life of the kingdom is principally (but not exclusively) spiritual – therefore, it has to be a matter of the heart before it can expand into a manifest reality through our day-to-day lives. Jesus is teaching us that we must live from the inside out to be people who see His will done and His Kingdom come.
Jesus’ “Sermon on the Mount” is “among the highest expression of religious insight and moral inspiration. We can savor them, affirm them, meditate upon them, and engrave them on plaques to hang on our walls…But a major question remains: how are we to live in response to them?” Dallas Willard
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