Mixed Bag
The book and chapters where the Sermon on the Mount is found
What is Matthew 5-7
In Jesus' sermon, he referred to people as these two things- one to preserve / slow decay and the other to illuminate darkness
What is salt and light
According to the author, only Jesus can be trusted to use this righteously, otherwise it can be destructive and dangerous for us
What is anger
Jesus calls us to love our enemies. He didn't mean our "theoretical" enemies, but our "everyday" enemies. These would be the people in our daily lives (inconsiderate spouse, self-centered teen, absent-minded child) who do things that make us feel this way
What is annoyed / aggravated
When we develop this with God, the less we will seek the attention and the affirmation of others
What is intimacy
The name for the collection of verses for which this sermon is famous
What are the Beatitudes
Unlike the Pharisees, Jesus was not interested in righteous behavior, which is external. He is looking for this type of transformation first which then leads to proper behaviors.
What is internal or heart
When God says to love our enemies, He actually does not necessarily mean to have positive _______________, but to act in the best interest of the person
What are feelings or emotions
The true lord of our lives is revealed by this and not our words
What is our actions
"Give us this day our daily bread" teaches us to reject the drive to accumulate, hoard, rush, and control things, and to instead be this (with what we have today)
What is content
Matthew 7:21-23 talks about people pleading their cases to Jesus at the judgement, convinced about what they did in His name. What word in that passage is used to describe the quantity of people that Jesus will be dismissing?
What is "many"?
Being used by God is not to be confused with this
Jesus warns in His sermon against self-righteousness when he likens the behavior to having this in our eye
What is a plank
What is avoiding
According to the author, we tend to see and hold on to this about the actions of other people, and often overlook our own
What is sin
At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells a parable about residential appraisal that emphasizes the invisible (to others) and uncelebrated parts of the Christian walk that help us to persevere. The one who does this work has built what?
What is his house upon the rock
Based on Matthew 7, the author compares Christians who focus on doing the easily visible and measurable fruitfulness to this
What is a Christmas tree
Rather than scheme and manipulate to get what we want, Jesus presents this three part method to getting what we need (3 words)
What is ask-seek-knock
We must be careful not to confuse discernment, which is assessing a state or condition of something or someone, with this, which is condemning and devaluing someone as if superior to another
What is judgment
What is presence
This type of person may not be easily identifiable, because the defining work of the person is mostly done out of view of others
What is a wise person
Throughout Scripture, there are stories that tell of these two concepts or mindsets- one is a fear-driven myth and one is God's reality. One leads to violence and greed, while the other leads to freedom to love others.
Scarcity versus abundance
Jesus warned that if we look only on the surface, we may be easily deceived by false prophets. The author suggests that we need these two things in order to know the quality of a leader
What is time and proximity
We think that improving our fruit happens by our directly pursuing a specific quality. But the call of Christ, the author says, is not to improve our own fruit, but to seek this process for our identity
Sometimes we think that if God says this to us, it's because He doesn't hear us or care for us.
What is "no"