The Authority of Jesus

The authority of Jesus is astonishing. If you're not astonished at the authority of Jesus, you're not paying attention. Or your heart owing to what? It's so shriveled up and distorted in its capacity to be astonished at the astonishing. You need help. You need healing. Let me illustrate. A chapter later, over in chapter 6, we get his first sermon. Here he's just saying, he taught. He's not saying what he taught in any detail. And this teaching, it says, came with authority, and they were astonished.