There are two actors, or participants, in the Sermon on the Mount: Jesus and his disciples; “I” and “you”. The emphasis seems to be very much on the “you”. The word “you” occurs, by my calculation, 179 times in the Sermon on the Mount…
In the Beatitudes we heard last week, Jesus spells out the standard of holiness expected of those whose lives are conformed to his life. This is very great: far beyond what we are capable of achieving on our own. In the...
