Hey everyone, this is Tyler from Bible Project, letting you know that we just released the fourth episode in our sermon on the Mount series on YouTube.

This episode explores how Jesus unpacked three commands in the Torah about murder, adultery, and divorce to reveal some deep truths about what drives human behavior.

You can find episode 4 out now on our YouTube channel.

Thanks for being a part of this with us. Welcome to Bible Project Podcast.

This year we're studying the Sermon on the Mount.

I'm John Collins and with me as co-host Michelle. Hi Michelle. Hi John, so we're in the section of the sermon on the

Mount where Jesus teaches his disciples how to faithfully follow the Torah.

Yes, the Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.

It's a story about God partnering with Israel so that they can become people full of his

wisdom and bring justice and peace to the whole world.

Right.

Jesus claims that he is the fulfillment of that story, the true human and the faithful Israelite.

And he's also teaching his followers to live out that story with him by learning a greater righteousness, that is to live in right relationship

with God and others.

In this section of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gives us six case studies for how we can

live by the wisdom in the Torah. In each case

study he quotes from a law that God gave ancient Israel and then he shows us the

radical vision God has for humanity that's hidden in plain sight within that law.

Six case studies grouped into two sets of three. The first three case studies on

murder, adultery, and divorce are about treating everyone as sacred that we're all in the

image of God. And that brings us to the second set of three case studies which are all

about how we can work together through the inevitable conflict that will arise.

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