A forwarded note from my friend, Kale

A Closing Thought

“It is interesting that Matthew concludes the Sermon on the Mount not with words focused on the content of the teaching, but with words focused on the character of the Teacher. ‘Now when Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.’ One does not obey the Sermon on the Mount, one obeys the One who taught it. And if one obeys that One, one should not be surprised to hear him saying to his disciples still today, ‘You have heard it said…But I say unto you.’”

Douglas John Hall, Confessing the Faith: Christian Theology in a North American Context (429)