S6 E9: Matthew 5
Show notes
Welcome to Season 6 of Down Under Theology, a podcast equipping and encouraging Australian Christians to get down and under the theology impacting the life and mission of the church.
In Season 6 of the show, we’re working our way through the story of the Bible in 12 key passages. Together, these passages will take us from creation to new creation, across the different sections and genres of Scripture, with Christ at the centre.
In this episode, Allister, Cam and Murray discuss the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5–7, beginning with the Beatitudes. They place the sermon in the context of Matthew’s Gospel, where Jesus is presented as the new and greater Moses teaching his disciples on the mountain. They explore the Beatitudes as blessings of grace, the call to be salt and light, and how Jesus’ teaching on the law fulfils the law by showing its heart. They also work through what Jesus says about practising righteousness, the Lord’s Prayer, anxiety and the call to build on the rock.
They also trace the sermon to Jesus himself, who perfectly obeys what he teaches and bears the curse of the law in our place, and consider how the church should teach this passage without falling into moralism or antinomianism. They finish with how the Beatitudes look ahead to the day when the kingdom is fully realised.
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S6 Episode 9 – Show Notes
Recommended Resources –
- Grace and Glory: Sermons Preached at Princeton Seminary by Geerhardus Vos
- The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The Message of the Sermon on the Mount (The Bible Speaks Today) by John Stott
- Principles of Conduct: Aspects of Biblical Ethics by John Murray
- The House That Went Splat by Steph Williams (part of the Little Me, Big God series for young children)
Many of these resources are available to borrow from the Christ College Library. General library membership is $100 per year.
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