The Golden Sermon
On The
Mountain

The Purpose Of The Sermon

By
The Man Who Saw God Face To Face
Raphael Okechukwu Nweze

1. Humanity were not living the way they should.
2. They were ignorant of the Truth that is life.
3. They have wrong set of priorities. They value insignificant things far above the significant things.
4. They do not know God, their Father and how to find Him.
5. Although religious leaders were very much respected and honoured by the people, the leaders were not giving the people the right guidance.
6. Many of the sermons delivered in the churches lack spiritual contents.
7. Many of God’s commandments, teachings and revelation have been turned upside down, have become misunderstood or have been replaced with man-made doctrines.
8. People know that there is after life, but do not know how to find and enter this spiritual kingdom of life.
9. They do not know the spiritual laws of life, which controls, rewards or penalizes every man for his actions and faults.
10. They do not know how to relate with one another, especially by practicing love and mercy.
11. They do not know how to get the good things of life.
12. They lacked knowledge and wisdom.
13. By the sermon, Jesus gave corrections to bad teachings, false beliefs and wrong practices. That does not mean that Old Testament is no longer relevant, just as school children do not stop to learn a subject after the teacher has given them corrections.
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1. To show the way.
2. To teach the Truth, especially through leading by examples.
3. To reset the priorities.
4. To make people know God and how to find Him.
5. To correct and empower the religious leaders, though many of the old would not allow Him.
6. To correct misconceptions, false beliefs and unreasonable assumptioms.
7. To explain the spiritual laws of life in details with examples (parables).

1. He was making known the everlasting blessings of God for His children.
2. He rectified the ruinous mistakes of a blind and carnal world. Blessings are the things which men pursue, doing so in the wrong way out of ignorance.
3. He corrected the wrong notion about success and prosperity. The general opinion is, 'blessed are the rich, great and honourable men in the world, because their desires, purposes and engagements prosper according to world’s standards'. But that is not true in spirit.
4. He removed the discouragements and suppression felt by the weak and poor, by assuring them that all those, whose hearts are upright with God, have the same honours and privileges in the kingdom of heaven.
5. He explained the covenant-relationship between God and man, showed example by keeping the original Ten Commandments as in Exodus 20, and by observing the seven annual festivals of God, as written in Leviticus 23.
6. He made humanity know what God expects from them, and what people should expect from God.
7. He proved, beyond all reasonable doubts, that God is Love, Loving and Beloved.