The Beattitudes As Law & Gospel (Part 2)

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.  (Matthew 5:1, ESV)

  • God spoke all these words, saying,
  • I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.  (Exodus 20)

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:  (Matthew 5:2, ESV)

  • You shall have no other gods before me.
  • You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You  shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
  • You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This  is the great and first commandment. (Matthew 22)

Kingdom Longing 

  • Matthew 5:3 - 6
    • Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
    • Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
    • Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
    • 6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.  (Matthew 5:3–6, ESV)
  • You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
  • Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.  Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORDblessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
  • Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. (Exodus 20)
  • And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (Matthew 22)

Kingdom Living

  • Matthew 5:7 - 10
    • Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
    • Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
    • Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
    • Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.  (Matthew 5:7–10, ESV)
  • You shall not murder. 
  • You shall not commit adultery.
  • You shall not steal.
  • You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
  • You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s. (Exodus 20)

The Cost of Yeshua Reconciling Us To Him 

    • Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.  (Matthew 5:11–12, ESV)
  • Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”  Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.”  The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.  (Exodus 20)
  • On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets. (Matthew 22:40)

O LORD, Hear our prayer(s)! 


From Austin Pfieffer @ Salem Presbyterian (PCA) in Winston-Salem, NC 

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