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N order to understand the Sermon on the Mount, it lis necessary to have the mind of the Preacher, and this knowledge can be gained by anyone who will receive the Holy Spirit (see Luke XI. 13, John XX. 22, Acts XIX. The Holy Ghost is the only expounder of the teachings of Jesus. The one abiding method of interpretation of the teachings of Jesus is the Spirit of Jesus in the heart of a believer applying His principles to the particular circum~ stances in which he is placed. Be renewed in the spirit of your mind, says Paul, that you may make out what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Beware of placing Our Lord as Teacher first instead of as Saviour. That tendency is prevalent to-day, and it is a' dangerous tendency. We must know Him first as Saviour before His teaching has any meaning for us, or before it has any meaning other than that of an ideal which leads to despair. Fancy coming to men and women with defective lives and defiled hearts and wrong main springs, and telling them to be pure in heart! What is the use of giving us an ideal we cannot possibly attain? We are happier without knowing it. If Jesus is only a Teacher, then all He can do is to tantalise us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if we know Him first as Saviour, by being born again from above, we know that He did not come to teach us only He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.

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STUDY No. 1. HIS TEACHING AND OUR TRAINING. Matthew V. 1-24. (1) DIVINE DISPROPORTION. Matthew V. 1-12. (a) The "lIines" of God. vv. 1-10 (d. Luke VI. 20-26). (b) The ~lotive of Godliness. vv. 11-12. (2) DIVINE DISADVANTAGE. Matthew V. 13~16. (a) Concentrated Service. v. 13. (b) Conspicuous Setting. vv. 14-16. (3) DIVINE DECLARATION. Matthew V. 17-20. (a) His Mission. vv. 17-19. (b) His :Message. v. 20. (1) DIVINE DISPROPORTION, vv. 1-12. Our Lord began His discourse by saying-Ie Blessed are ... ," and His hearers must have been staggered by what followed. According to Jesus, they were to be blessed in every condition which from earliest childhood they had been taught to regard as a curse. Our Lord was talking to Jews, and they believed that the sign of the blessing of God was material prosperity in every shape and fODn, and yet Jesus says -Blessed are you for exactly the opposite. (I Blessed are the poor in spirit." H Blessed are they that mourn." (a) The

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CONTENrrs; rAGE; STUDY NO l HIS TEACHING AND OUR TRAINING ~ 1; , , 2 ACTU AL AND REAL - 12; " IJ 3 INCARNATE WISDOM AND INDIVIDUAL; REASON 35; " "; 4 CHARACTER AND CONDUCT 62; ) " ~ lDEAS, IDEALS AND ACTUALITY 79

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