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Tag Archives: Sermon on the Mount
Is Your Eye the Lamp of Your Body?
A Little Lesson
What Are the Treasures We Should Not Lay Up on Earth?
A Little Lesson
Why Anoint Your Head and Wash Your Face When You Fast?
A Little Lesson
Getting the Sermon on the Mount Right (The Anabaptist Challenge), Part 2
by David Servant
In last month’s e-teaching, I challenged a premise—held by Anabaptist and other holiness groups—that Jesus established new moral standards during His Sermon on the Mount that were higher than those found in the Law of Moses. The basis of that Anabaptist premise is the assumption that Jesus’ six “You have heard…but I say to you” statements are each examples of Him quoting a standard found in the Law of Moses followed by “a new, higher standard” that was, from that moment on, binding on His followers.