SERMON ON THE MOUNT
The stringent,
impossible demands in the Sermon on the Mount are expressions not of
strictness, but of phenomenal freedom. If you will let the real God come into
your life, you will be free of the anxiety that makes it impossible to forgive
injuries, to lend on demand, to “turn the other cheek”. Once you’re on course
with this God, you will want to throw out anything that is going to stop you
from reaching his Kingdom. The brutal hyperboles about plucking out the eye,
cutting off the hand or foot, that confuse you, become understandable in this
context – and in no other. Jesus’ teaching is full of wild exaggerations. For
Jesus is a wild man. He is not restricted by our human fears.
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