Description
With characteristic insight, Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-jones here offers a detailed and comprehensive exposition of one of the best known but most frequently misunderstood passages of scripture – the Sermon on the Mount.
The Sermon on the Mount, says Lloyd-Jones, is not a code of ethics or morals; it is a description of what Christians are meant to be. With his eye always on both Scripture and life, he explains and applied Christ’s teaching for Christians struggling to live like Christ.
Originally delivered as sermons, the sixty studies in this devotional classic provide a fine example of clear, consecutive expository preaching from one of the greatest preachers of our time.
Table of Contents
PREFACE
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION
2 GENERAL VIEW AND ANALYSIS
3 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BEATITUDES
4 BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT (v. 3)
5 BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN (v. 4)
6 BLESSED ARE THE MEEK (v. 5)
7 RIGHTEOUSNESS AND BLESSEDNESS (v. 6)
8 THE TESTS OF SPIRITUAL APPETITE (v. 6)
9 BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL (v. 7)
10 BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART (v. 8)
11 BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS (v. 9)
12 THE CHRISTIAN AND PERSECUTION (v. 10)
13 REJOICING IN TRIBULATION (v. 11,12)
14 THE SALT OF THE EARTH (v. 13)
15 THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD (v. 14)
16 LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE (v. 13-16)
17 CHRIST AND THE OLD TESTAMENT (v. 17, 18)
18 CHRIST FULFILLING THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS (v. 17-19)
19 RIGHTEOUSNESS EXCEEDING THAT OF THE SCRIBES AND
PHARISEES (v. 20)
20 THE LETTER AND THE SPIRIT (v. 21, 22)
21 THOU SHALT NOT KILL (v. 21-26)
22 THE EXCEEDING SINFULNESS OF SIN (v. 27-30)
23 THE MORTIFICATION OF SIN (v. 29, 30)
24 CHRIST'S TEACHING ON DIVORCE (v. 31, 32)
25 THE CHRISTIAN AND THE TAKING OF OATHS (v. 33-37)
26 AN EYE FOR AN EYE, AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH (v. 38-42)
27 THE CLOAK AND THE SECOND MILE (v. 38-42)
28 DENYING SELF AND FOLLOWING CHRIST (v. 38-42)
29 LOVE YOUR ENEMIES (v. 43-48)
30 WHAT DO YE MORE THAN OTHERS? (v. 43-48)
31 LIVING THE RIGHTEOUS LIFE (vi. 1-4)
32 HOW TO PRAY (vi. 5-8)
33 FASTING (vi. 16-18)
34 'WHEN WE PRAY' (vi. 9)
35 PRAYER: ADORATION (vi. 9, 10)
36 PRAYER: PETITION (vi. 11-15)
37 TREASURES ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN (vi. 19, 20)
38 GOD OR MAMMON (vi. 19-24)
39 SIN'S FOUL BONDAGE (vi. 19-24)
40 BE NOT ANXIOUS (vi. 25-30)
41 BIRDS AND FLOWERS (vi. 25-30)
42 LITTLE FAITH (vi. 31-33)
43 INCREASING FAITH (vi. 31-33)
44 WORRY: ITS CAUSES AND CURE (vi. 34)
45 'JUDGE NOT' (vii. 1,2)
46 THE MOTE AND THE BEAM (vii. 1-5)
47 SPIRITUAL JUDGMENT AND DISCRIMINATION (vii. 6)
48 SEEKING AND FINDING (vii. 7-11)
49 THE GOLDEN RULE (vii. 12)
50 THE STRAIT GATE (vii. 13, 14)
51 THE NARROW WAY (vii. 13, 14)
52 FALSE PROPHETS (vii. 15, 16a)
53 THE TREE AND THE FRUIT (vii. 15-20)
54 FALSE PEACE (vii. 21-23)
55 UNCONSCIOUS HYPOCRISY (vii. 21-23)
56 THE SIGNS OF SELF-DECEPTION (vii. 21-23)
57 THE TWO MEN AND THE TWO HOUSES (vii. 24-27)
58 ROCK OR SAND (vii. 24-27)
59 THE TRIAL AND THE TESTS OF FAITH (vii. 24-27)
60 CONCLUSION (vii. 28, 29)
Product Details
Title: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
Author: D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Publisher: Intervarsity Press
Pages: 654
Binding: Paperback
Size: 21.6 x 14.0 x 3.4 cm
ISBN: 9780851105833