THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matt. 5, 6, 7

March 7, 2019

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

TWO FOUNDATIONS AND TWO HOUSES….1 Matt. 7:24-26.

Matthew Henry says, “Christ preached now to a mixed multitude, and he thus separate them, one from the other, as he will at the great day, when all nations shall be gathered before him” Broadus John A says “A religious teacher is apt to have great causes of grief: that so many will not hear him at all, and that so many who hear, and perhaps admire, will not do Ez. 33:31” PARKER: “(1) All men are building. (2) All builders have a choice of foundations. (3) All foundations will be tried. (4) Only one foundation will stand”

  1. Matt. 7:24-25. Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock and the rain descended, the flood came, and the wind blew and beat on that house; and did not fall, for it is founded on the rock”
  2. “These sayings of mine and does them” refers immediately to the ‘Sermon on the Mount’ but of course the same holds true of his other saying Lk. 6:46, Matt. 12:50, Lk. 11:28, Jn. 13:17; 14:22-24; 15:14, Jas. 1:21-27. “All the sayings of Christ, not only the laws he has enacted, but the truths he has revealed, must be done by us. They are light, not only to our eyes, but to our feet, and are designed not only to inform our judgments, but to reform our hearts and lives: nor do we believe them, if we do not live up to them” Matthew Henry. DYKES: “The whole drift and movement of this long discourse has carried us forward with it to the one most weighty practical conclusion – that, after all, he only is a Christian who does what Christ bids him”
  3. “I will liken him”, ‘I will show you to whom he is like as in Matt. 11:16, Mk. 14:30, Lk. 13:18, Lam. 2:13. 
  4. ‘A wise man’, that is ‘sensible’, ‘prudent’ Job. 28:28, Pro. 10:8, Matt. 10:16; 25:1-12, Jas. 3:13-18.
  5. ‘Who built his house on the rock’ “In a limestone country like Galilee, it is only necessary to dig some distance, and you are apt to find a stream of solid rock. It is very common in that region now to dig down to the rock, and lay the foundation of a house.” Broadus John A. Luke has a beautiful illustration, ‘dug, and went deep, and lay the foundation upon the rock’ Lk. 6:47-48
  6. Here it literarily means, “a man who rest his salvation on a good foundation by actual obedience, and not mere profession; by simply hearing the Saviours teachings, but acting it out in character and life.” Jas. 2:17-26.
  7. It also means ‘A man who rest his salvation on Christ the rock. Is. 28:16, 2Pet. 2:9, 1Tim. 6:17-19, 2Tim. 2:19, 1Cor. 3:10-15 

It continues.