---
title: "The Sermon on the Mount"
category: "bible"
description: "Matthew 5-7 in the order Jesus preached it: salt and light, the Lord's Prayer and the kingdom it asks for, forgiveness, and fasting."
tags: ["sermon-on-the-mount", "matthew", "jesus-teaching", "audience/teaching", "small-groups"]
draft: false
primary_passage: "Matthew 5:1-2"
series:
  cut: passage
  sessions:
    - study: christian-life/salt-light-and-aroma.md
      why: "Matthew 5:13-16: what salt and light meant to the first hearers, and what they ask of you."
    - study: christian-life/lords-prayer.md
      why: "Matthew 6:9-13: the prayer Jesus taught, line by line."
    - study: last-things/your-kingdom-come.md
      why: "Matthew 6:10: the second petition, and the kingdom already here and still to come."
    - study: christian-life/forgiveness.md
      why: "Matthew 6:14-15: forgiven a debt to God, and forgiving."
    - study: christian-life/fasting.md
      why: "Matthew 6:16-18: fasting for the Father who sees in secret."
date_created: 2026-10-22
date_modified: 2026-10-22
ai_provider_models:
  - anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
---

# The Sermon on the Mount

**In one sentence:** In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus describes life under His reign: you are salt
and light in the world, you pray to your Father in heaven for His kingdom to come, you forgive as
you have been forgiven, and you fast for His eyes alone.

The weeks follow Matthew 5-7 in order. Week three stays on one line of the prayer from week two,
because the kingdom it asks for is the subject of the whole sermon.

## The weeks

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