
2. Sermon on the Mount : The Beatitudes Matthew 5:1-16
Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse
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The Jews Are the Light to the Whole World
The sermon on the mount is a very active text. A lot of it is, be useful, be good. Be fruitful to people. Don't mak carse of more evil in the world,. but stop the evil in its tracks - kind of thing. The jews are the light to the whole world. Ie, and this was an early christian idea. They were trying to figure out how do we keep our jewish har ack, our jewish scriptures? What do we make of all that? And in light of jesus, and there like, they go into the jewish scriptures theygo, well yet, look, this is a light to the
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