Welcome to the Gospel and Life podcast. Today, Tim Keller is teaching on perhaps the most well-known

sermon ever preached, the sermon on the Mount. In it, we'll find Jesus's invitation to a radical

new kind of life that is far beyond a guide to morality. After you listen to today's teaching,

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Turn your bulletins to the passage from the Sermon on the Mount we'll look at tonight.

Now, the Sermon on the Mount is not something that we should be reading as if it's an

individual, a guide for an individual, a guide simply for how I as an individual should

live my life. The Sermon on the Mount is really a description of a new kind of community.

That's the reason why John Stott, who's a great Bible commentator, very well known, when he wrote

his commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, he called it the Christian counterculture.

Because this is really describing a body of people.

It's describing a community.

But what's so interesting is that even though that theme, the theme of Christian community,

Christian fellowship, of deep Christian relationships,

even though that theme is all through the sermon on the Mount, there's no one section where Jesus

sort of lays out how a relationship with him radically changes our relationships with other Christians,

how it forms a new, deep, radical human community in Christ. He doesn't actually

lay it out any one place. It's through everything else. And so in order for me to do what I want

to do tonight, which is to say what Jesus tells us about this new human community that his gospel

creates between believers, in order to talk about that, I have to pull these pieces out. So let's

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