Pastor Rob McCoy: Sermon on the Mount
The Book Club
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Michael Knowles is joined by Pastor Rob McCoy to discuss the Sermon on the Mount, one of the most beloved and frequently cited passages in the gospels of the New Testament. Together, Michael and Pastor McCoy explore the various interpretations of the text and reflect on the lessons that Jesus’s sermon teaches us about living a virtuous Christian life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Book Club I'm Michael Knowles and this month we have a very good book. |
| 0:15.5 | We have THE Good Book as a matter of fact and one of the most important moments in that book that |
| 0:20.3 | would be the sermon on the mount in the gospel according to St. Matthew, which is |
| 0:26.0 | chapters 5 through 7. I am joined by Pastor Rob McCoy, who is the pastor of God Speak, and also former mayor of Thousand Oaks, California. |
| 0:37.4 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 0:38.4 | Rob, thank you so much for coming on. |
| 0:39.6 | Thanks, Michael. |
| 0:40.3 | This is a great joy. |
| 0:41.1 | I so enjoy you and seriously this is I can check this off |
| 0:46.6 | the bucket list. Thank you very much. Before we start though sure. Can you give a |
| 0:51.3 | 60 second summary of the sermon on the map? |
| 0:55.0 | For disciples, it's how to build the Christian life |
| 0:59.0 | and Christ is speaking to those who have committed themselves to him and what it looks like to |
| 1:04.4 | reform at a man or a woman so that they walk in accordance with what God desires |
| 1:10.0 | and he goes through all of that beginning beginning with the word beatitude, which means, interestingly enough, oh how happy. |
| 1:17.0 | Our founders said, Life, Liberty, the pursuit of happiness, this highest virtue of doing that for what you were designed to do. You find who you are and |
| 1:25.1 | what you're to do when you come to Christ and the Beatitudes is a roadmap for |
| 1:30.2 | success in that life of Christ. So I guess we can just open with the Beatitudes. |
| 1:34.9 | The nice thing, or there are many nice things |
| 1:36.6 | about doing the sermon on the mountain, |
| 1:37.9 | but one of them is, because it's so short, |
| 1:40.3 | we can read a fair bit. |
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