Sermon on the Mount - Matthew 5:33-48 - "But I Say to You..."

1. Keep Your Word

2. Swallow Your Pride

QUOTE – “You are eager to appear courageous in that you do not allow an injury to go unavenged, but in this way you betray your childishness, since you cannot control your feelings, which is the mark of a true man. How much more courageous and noble it is to despise another’s stupidity than to imitate it.” – Erasmus

3. Love Your Enemy

QUOTE – “Doing an Injury puts you below your Enemy; Revenging one makes you but even with him; Forgiving it sets you above him.” – Benjamin Franklin

QUOTE – “Note through what steps we have now ascended, and how Christ has set us here on the very pinnacle of virtue. The first step is, not to begin to do wrong to any; the second, that in avenging a wrong done to us we be content with retaliating equal; the third, to return nothing of what we have suffered; the fourth, to offer one’s self to the endurance of evil; the fifth, to be ready to suffer even more evil than the oppressor desires to inflict; the sixth, not to hate him of whom we suffer such things; the seventh, to love him; the eighth, to do him good; the ninth, to pray for him. And because the command is great, the reward proposed is also great, namely, to be made like unto God.” – Chrysostom