What They Never Expected to Hear from Jesus

"So His fame spread throughout . . " - Matthew 4:24a

Jesus was famous. A rock star (or star Rock). People followed Him everywhere. He put on magic shows. For free. And the 'magic' changed lives.

And so they followed Him to a mountain, where He sat down, turned to face them, and put the whammy on them. He spoke what is recorded in Matthew 5-6-7, and the words had such intellectual and theological force as to be - surely - virtually incomprehensible, because they were spoken in no context the people had ever heard before.

We're all still trying to comprehend those words today because they turn how we think totally upside down.
But that's what Jesus does.

If we listen, He rocks our world with thinking that makes no sense -- except to the Most High God Who is setting out to accomplish the Most High purposes.

When is the last time God said something so profound that it turned you on your head? That it made you think, 'You want me to do what?' 'Say what?' 'Think how?'

The world is doing a great job of conditioning our minds. We must daily, constantly, not merely re-think, but Jesus-think. We must remember that He thought like no man, gave like no man, had power like no man. And we are not to live like other men. It all starts in the mind and moves to obedience.

Read 'The Sermon on the Mount' and ask God what He might be saying to you that would turn your thinking, and actions, upside down.