THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. Matt. 5, 6, 7 (45)

January 5, 2019

11-12-18

Key: SCHAFF: “When the Lord open his mouth, we should open our ears and hearts” 

‘THE GOLDEN RULE’ Matt, 7:12

“Our Lord now gives one single precept for the regulation of our conduct, a simple working rule, which is not merely a summary statement of all that he has been teaching on that subject throughout the discourse but is expressly declared to cover the entire ground of what is required by “the law and the prophets” Matt. 5:17.” …”This simple and beautiful precept is now commonly called, from its excellence the “Golden Rule” just as James 2:8 calls the precepts. “Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself’ the ‘royal law.'” Broadus John A.

  1. Matt. 7:12 “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”
    1. Therefore, as an inference from what precedes that is, God’s gracious and loving provisions for others. It therefore follows that, none except the one filled with the love of God in his heart, the grace of God upon him and the compassion for mankind can carry out the precept. In other words it is a precept for the candidates of the kingdom, the new creation. Jn. 3:3-7, 1Pet. 1:3, 2Cor. 5:15, Eph. 4:23, 24, 1Pet. 2:2-5, 9-12.
    2. The precept is an application of the principle “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself and on that conjunction with ‘Thou shalt love the Lord Thy God with all thy heart’, Jesus afterwards declared that the whole law and the prophets hang. Matt. 22:40. This is just the duties to our fellow men. It does not mean the whole requirements of scriptures.
    3. The precept for instance as applied to a judge and a criminal, the judge and the criminal as publicly consented to a law, the judge should do as the law required. Similarly, a father should not allow a child to be his own master when unfit for it, should not restrain to discipline him, in the way that would be for his real good.
  2. “To make the Golden rule part of daily life, you must do three things” Bob Gass -“The word for today”
    1. Trust them. “The only way to make a man trustworthy is by trusting him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him: Henty L. Stimson. The person who trust others will lose less than the person who distrust them. 2Kg. 3:12-27, Phil. 4:2-3, Rom. 16:1-2, Act. 9:26-31; 11:19-26; 13:13; 15:37-40, 2Tim. 4:11.
    2. Thank them or in my words appreciate them. Let them know you appreciate their efforts. Phil. 4:14-19, Rom. 16:3-15. “Always help people increase their self-esteem… there is hardly a higher compliment you can pay an individual than helping him to be useful and finding satisfaction in his usefulness”- Donald Laird.
    3. Value them. Survey confirms the 70% of workers who leave their job do so because they don’t feel valued. Go on appreciating others. Phil. 2:19-23, 1Cor. 1:2, 4-9, Jn. 1:45-47
  3. The key 1Thess. 5:22 “Abstain from all appearances of evil” When you treat others the way you want to be treated, they win, and when they reciprocate, you win.