• Want to read the Sermon on the Mount for all it's worth?
• R. T. Kendall's verse-by-verse guides you into a deep understanding of the famous passage
• Discover how, in one short sermon, Jesus delivers a life-time's worth of wisdom

R T Kendall leaves no word ignored and no verse unexplored in his comprehensive analysis of the most revolutionary, world changing compilation of beliefs and behaviours ever set down in print. Drawing on the wisdom, sermons and scholarship of his predecessor and mentor, Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones, the former minister of Westminster Chapel analyses the chapters of Matthew 5 to 7 known to Christians since the time of St Augustine as 'The Sermon on the Mount'

5 reasons to read R T Kendall's 'Sermon on the Mount'

o For an in detail, readable and insightful exploration of Matthew chapters 5-7
o For a comprehensive analysis of Christianity's core beliefs and behaviours
o To understand Jesus' 'Sermon on the Mount' verse by verse and step by step
o To find what Jesus really meant by, and his understanding of, The Kingdom of God
o To benefit from R T Kendall's devotional writing style and depth of Bible knowledge

The author of more than 50 bestsellers including 'Totally Forgiving God', 'Did You Think to Pray?' 'Why Jesus Died' and 'A Man After God's Own Heart', R T Kendall opens out the meaning and context of the most influential teachings in Jesus' ministry. Exploring what Jesus meant us to understand and how we were intended to respond, the director of RT Kendall ministries explains what Jesus would have meant by the Kingdom of God - how and when it would come, and your part in bringing it about. He reveals that key to your understanding of what Jesus said is what he meant by the work of the Holy Spirit.

Although many theologians have delved deeply into Matthew 5-7, few have offered such a comprehensive, up-to-date, exposition accessible to Bible readers, pastors, teachers, preachers and those involved in serious theological study. Dr. Kendall applies a compelling, devotional style of writing to the words of Jesus and guides readers toward putting these teachings to work in their own lives.

R T Kendall - Sermon on the Mount: highlight quotes

"The purpose of the Sermon on the Mount is to demonstrate the kind of teaching—and the kind of living with regard to character and conduct — that should govern the people of God through the power of the Holy Spirit.

"Brokenness is evident when you realize you have no bargaining power with God. You can do only one thing: ask for mercy."

"To inherit the Kingdom of heaven is therefore to enjoy the blessing and conscious indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit."

"The purpose of God’s allowing one to suffer is to see one’s own sin — not another’s sin."

"The definition that, in my opinion, best suits Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the Mount, it is this: the rule of the un-grieved Spirit in the believer."