Sermon on the Mount - Part 10
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"Building on the Right Foundation" Core Illustration The sermon opens with the Leaning Tower of Pisa, an impressive structure undermined by a shallow foundation on marshy ground, as a metaphor for lives built on the wrong things. The Two Houses (Matthew 7:24-29) Jesus closes the Sermon on the Mount with a parable of two houses. Both face the same storms; only one survives. The difference isn't appearance, it's the foundation. Rock vs. sand. Everyone Has a Worldview The preacher argues that everyone "lives in a house" meaning everyone operates from some philosophy of life, whether they...
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Sermon on the Mount - Part 9
Sermons from Aberdeen Christian Fellowship
David continues the church’s Sermon on the Mount series, framing it like crossing a mountain pass: you can’t relax too early or lose focus before you’re “all the way off the mountain.” He says Jesus’ teaching demands a response, not just hearing, but doing (quoting James 1), like the kids at the church’s Spark group who often know the right answers but don’t always live them out. The sermon focuses on Matthew 7:13–23 and presents three “choices” Jesus sets before listeners as the series reaches its final section (“the kingdom response”): 1) Choose the narrow gate (not...
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Sermon on the Mount - Part 8
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Context: Part of a series through the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7). Vijay frames the sermon as what life looks like when Jesus is truly King—citizens living under God’s reign. Main passage: Matthew 7:1–6 (“Do not judge…”; speck/log; pearls before pigs). The central claim: the judge’s seat is already occupied—Jesus alone has the ultimate right to judge, justify, and condemn. What “do not judge” means (and doesn’t mean): It doesn’t eliminate moral clarity or discernment, or mean “anything goes.” It does confront a...
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Sermon on the Mount - Part 7
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Cheri continues a Sermon on the Mount series with a challenging message on money, possessions, and “kingdom living” (Matthew 6). She asks what our bank accounts and goals reveal about our true priorities, warning that storing up earthly treasure shapes our hearts and loyalties. Unpacking Jesus’ teaching about the “good eye,” she connects generosity with spiritual clarity and shows how greed creates divided focus, like trying to run toward two finish lines. She also explores “mammon” as a rival master, arguing that trusting wealth for security easily becomes a kind of idolatry....
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Sermon on the Mount Part 6
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Summary This is a sermon in a series on the Sermon on the Mount. Florence has reached the “peak” (the central teaching) and will focus on the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:5–13). She begins with how not to pray (avoid performative “hypocritical” public prayer; avoid mindless “babbling”), then move into how to pray, unpacking the Lord’s Prayer as a model with two dimensions: a vertical focus on God (God’s name, kingdom, will) a horizontal focus on human needs (provision, forgiveness, spiritual protection) She notes these form a “cross” shape (vertical + horizontal),...
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Sermon on the Mount - Part 5
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Description The session highlights the importance of being God-centered in life and prayer, introducing a sermon series on the Sermon on the Mount. It discusses the Beatitudes as a recipe for happiness, emphasizing mercy, right choices, and pure thoughts.Vijay encourages genuine relationships with God over seeking human approval, illustrating the dangers of hypocrisy. Ultimately, it promotes living for God and finding fulfillment in His recognition. ##GodCentered #Happiness #Beatitudes #Prayer #GenuineRelationship" Q&A Today's sermon will focus on our motives...
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The Sermon on The Mount - Part 4
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Dave continues the Sermon on The Mount series
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The Sermon on the Mount - Part 3
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Cheri continues our latest series
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The Sermon on the Mount - Part2
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Vijay returns from Sabbatical to continue the 'Sermon on the Mount' series
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Sermon on the Mount - Part 1
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David starts a new series on the Sermon on the Mount
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Core Illustration The sermon opens with the Leaning Tower of Pisa, an impressive structure undermined by a shallow foundation on marshy ground, as a metaphor for lives built on the wrong things.
The Two Houses (Matthew 7:24-29) Jesus closes the Sermon on the Mount with a parable of two houses. Both face the same storms; only one survives. The difference isn't appearance, it's the foundation. Rock vs. sand.
Everyone Has a Worldview The preacher argues that everyone "lives in a house" meaning everyone operates from some philosophy of life, whether they realise it or not. The question is whether that worldview can bear the full weight of life's hardest questions: grief, death, identity, suffering, betrayal.
Even Christians Can Build on Sand The warning isn't just for unbelievers. Christians can drift into a shallow faith — mixing pop psychology with Bible verses, or building on good-but-insufficient things like belonging, community, or entertaining worship experiences. These are furniture, not foundation.
The Real Test is Crisis Storms don't discriminate. Crisis exposes whether your foundation was ever solid. The wise builder prepares before the storm arrives, like practising a fire drill before the building is burning.
Hearing + Doing = Solid Rock The foundation Jesus describes requires two things together: hearing his words and doing them, like cement and water forming concrete. Admiring Jesus's teaching isn't enough. Real knowledge produces action. Those who hear but never obey may be fooling themselves entirely.
Closing Illustration A Turkish school collapsed in a 2003 earthquake because corners were cut and safety codes ignored. From the outside it looked fine, until the shaking came. Earthquakes reveal what corrupt inspectors miss. Life's crises do the same.
The Call Build on Christ, not feelings, not cultural Christianity, not belonging alone. Hear his words and follow them.