The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit

We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the terribly offensive sins of the fleshthat shock them, but the awful nature of the pride of their own hearts opposing Jesus Christ. When they see themselves in the light of the Lord, the shame, the horror, and desperate conviction hit home for them.

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith.