Welcome to Form Live. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute. And joining me today is Dr. Michael

Barber. And we're going to be doing our Bible study, continuing our Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew.

We're so happy you could join us. Please feel free to grab a Bible and join us. We're using the Augustine Bible, which is the English Standard version, Catholic Edition, which is a beautiful

translation, a recent translation that's very close to Hebrew and Greek. That's why we like

using it for study purposes. And we're going to start off now with Matthew Chapter 5, which

is the Sermon on the Mount. And we've been going through Matthew's Gospel and now we're in

chapter 5. And chapter 5 is a special chapter because it begins a new section of Matthew's

gospel. Chapter 5, 6, and 7 of Matthew's Gospel is the sermon on the Mount, which as you could say

is the magna carta of Christian doctrine. I mean this is really

a key speech of our Lord Jesus Christ that really displays for us his key teaching for us to be

disciples. How do we live as disciples? You know, St. Augustine loved the sermon of the mountain. He

did a whole little treatise on the sermon of the mountain, a very extended teaching on it. And he said that if we lost all of the New Testament but had

the sermon on the Mount, it would be enough for us to know how to be disciples of Jesus Christ.

What a beautiful idea. And that's the beauty of this speech. And rather from saints like St.

Augustine to recent people like

Diedrich Bonhofer, who wrote his famous book, The Cost of Discipleship, which was just on the Sermon of the Mount. It was a class he taught just on the Sermon of the Mount. There's so much, and I know, Michael, you're going to feel the same way I do. And when it comes to the Sermon the Mount, we could teach a whole class on the Sermon of the Mount.

I mean, it is so rich.

And I think this is going to take us at least a couple of episodes. sermon in the Mount, we could teach a whole class on the sermon in the Mount. I mean, it is so rich.

And I think this is going to take us at least a couple of episodes, probably to walk through

the sermon of the Mount. I would say so. In fact, the catechism of the Catholic Church says

that the heart of the scriptures is the Gospels, because in the Gospels we find Jesus' teaching. But at the heart of Jesus' teaching in the Gospels, because in the Gospels, we find Jesus's teaching.

But at the heart of Jesus' teaching in the Gospels is the Sermon on the Mount.

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