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Matthew 5-7 – The Assumptions in the Sermon
Compared to the world in which Jesus walked, today’s displays all the same foibles and failures of yesteryear minus the benefit of “the assumptions.” With theoretical and scientific advancements increasing our opinions of ourselves, each advancing society continues to become less advanced in “the assumptions.” Our triumphs over the scientific and medical maladies of the past ironically lead us to our own present and future moral tragedies by our dismissing “the assumptions.” When Jesus spoke on the mountain (Matthew 5-7), there are 6 assumptions within Jesus’ insights that are no longer assumed true:
1. God has spoken
2. Jesus Speaks for God
3. There are Absolutes
4. The Bible Can Be Understood
5. People Choose their Paths
6. People will Be Judge Based upon the above Assumptions.
In advancing past our unenlightened ancestors, our intellectual snobbery has robbed us of our faith-facts. It is difficult to promote faith or prove facts, when the assumptions of today are:
1. There is no God and if there is He has not spoken;
2. Jesus was just a man if he existed at all;
3. There are no moral absolutes, just scientific and historical truths;
4. The Bible is a jumbled mass of incoherent, incomprehensible man-made myths;
5. There are no paths to choose because we are genetically predisposed;
6. No God and no absolutes mean no judgment.
Compared to the world in which Jesus walked, no crowds today would gather to hear the old-fashioned, slightly crazed, judgmental, God-man from Galilee.
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