Sermon on the Mount

Jesus took six things everyone thought they understood — anger, lust, marriage, honesty, retaliation, love — and revealed that the real standard was never about behavior. It was about becoming the kind of person whose inner life matches their outer one. Two thousand years later, we're still catching up.

Jesus shifts from how we treat people to how we relate to God — and exposes the difference between faith that performs and faith that's real. He teaches the most famous prayer ever spoken, then tells his followers to stop worrying and start trusting.

Jesus closes the Sermon on the Mount with a series of sharp contrasts — wide gates and narrow ones, good trees and bad ones, houses on rock and houses on sand. It's his final word on what a life built on his teaching actually looks like versus one that just looks the part.