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Sermon on the Mount
by Rev. Charles G. Dennison
Sixty-seven sermons by Rev. Charles G. Dennison, former pastor of Grace Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Sewickley, PA, his major verse-by-verse exposition of Matthew 5-7 — the Beatitudes, the law's fulfillment in Christ, the Lord's Prayer, fasting, anxiety, and judgment — read throughout as the historical event of the kingdom of heaven's arrival rather than a code of ethics. Preached May 1975, then October 1985 through November 1990, and drawn from the Dennison Sermon Library archive.
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Judge and Word
Matthew 7:7-29 is read here as a genuine masterpiece of construction rather than simply a collection of closing sayings, with 7:12's Golden Rule sitting at its structural center. The imagery and drama running through 7:7-27 gets its due as craft rather than decoration. Christ closes the whole...
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Many Called, Few Chosen
Christ warns about sheep-eaters in 7:15-23 and describes people who say 'Lord, Lord' and still hear him turn them away. God's covenant reaches wider than his election, and so many are called while few are chosen. Matthew 25's sheep and goats sound the same warning in a different key.
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False Prophets, No Cross
Matthew 7:7-23 holds together as one unit, more than a loose string of sayings. The two gates of 7:13 and Micah's warnings in 3:5-12 point to the same danger, false prophets working inside the church as well as outside it. A ministry with no cross in it marks them out.
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Beyond a Moralistic Golden Rule
Two common misreadings of the Golden Rule in 7:12 come from cutting the verse off from 7:7-11 just before it. The verse also ties back to 6:14-15's teaching on forgiveness. A moralistic reading and a redemptive-historical reading produce two different Golden Rules.
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An Astounding New Access to God
'Ask, seek, knock' in Matthew 7:7 describes an access to God so astounding that, set against it, even the real access Old Testament saints had can look like almost none at all. Psalm 88, one of Scripture's bleakest psalms, supplies the contrast deliberately. Christ's coming changed what access to...
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Idea-Centered or Event-Centered
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." Matthew 7:7-12 gathers up the themes of the Sermon on the Mount, asking, seeking and giving, under the Father who gives good gifts. Jesus speaks as a preacher, not a lecturer, full of power and...
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An Event, Not an Idea
Christ's teaching on the mountain presents the historical event of the kingdom of heaven arriving, and it offers neither an idea nor a moral system. In 7:7, 'ask, and it shall be given,' the cross and resurrection already stand inside a simple imperative. The whole Sermon on the Mount belongs to...
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Sixty-seven sermons by Rev. Charles G. Dennison, former pastor of Grace Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Sewickley, PA, his major verse-by-verse exposition of Matthew 5-7 — the Beatitudes, the law's fulfillment in Christ, the Lord's Prayer, fasting, anxiety, and judgment — read throughout as the historical event of the kingdom of heaven's arrival rather than a code of ethics. Preached May 1975, then October 1985 through November 1990, and drawn from the Dennison Sermon Library archive.
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Sixty-seven sermons by Rev. Charles G. Dennison, former pastor of Grace Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Sewickley, PA, his major verse-by-verse exposition of Matthew 5-7 — the Beatitudes, the law's fulfillment in Christ, the Lord's Prayer, fasting, anxiety, and judgment — read throughout as the...
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