Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute, and joining me is Dr. Michael Barber,

and we are going to continue our series on the Gospel of Matthew, our little Bible study.

So we invite you to pull out your Bible so you can follow along and it'll make it much easier for you

if you have your Bible in front of you. We're using, of course, the Augustine Bible, which is the ESV Catholic Edition, which

is a wonderful translation.

We like it because it tries to be as literal and close to the Hebrew and Greek original

as possible.

And you can get that at Catholic.

Market if you want to get your Bible.

But we're excited.

We left off last time.

Michael, we covered the Beatitudes, which is just a wonderful introduction to the sermon on the Mount.

So kind of to give everybody where we're at right now, as we've been walking through Matthew's Gospel,

we've started the sermon on the Mount, which is Matthews chapter 5, 6, and 7.

This great epic speech of our Lord, where he really lays out fundamental

teachings of being a disciple of Jesus Christ. And of course, the beatitudes are, in a sense,

the prologue. This is where he kicks off the great sermon in the Mount. And now that we've

completed the beatitudes in verses 1 through 12 of Matthew chapter 5.

We're going to move in verse 13 to the content of the sermon as he begins.

And he's going to begin with two powerful metaphors because what he's going to do is he's inviting.

And these two metaphors are really a transition.

It's basically saying, if you live out the beatitudes, you are going to be salt and light to the world.

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