Preface
Preface
These chapters are based on a series of messages I delivered at Moody Church when I was a pastor there. Many who heard them expressed a desire to have them in permanent form. However, let me hasten to point out that in these chapters I have taken a somewhat different approach from the original sermons. I wish now I could preach the series again.
I recognize that the Sermon on the Mount has both present and future implications. It is the former that are emphasized here. In the entire series of studies, I have tried to help the believer today realize what it means to reign in life as an heir of the King through Jesus Christ. I believe that God wants each of His children to live like a king and that the Beatitudes help point the way to that experience.
Knowing the imperfections of both the author and the book, I tremble as I send these pages forth. But if they help some believer enter more fully into the privileges of the throne, then I will consider the work rewarded. “Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it” (Philippians 3:13).