Design for Living: Lessons on Holiness from the Sermon on the Mount

by J. Dwight Pentecost

Publisher:

Kregel

, 1999

Overview

The Sermon on the Mount may be a well-known portion of Scripture, but how is it meant to impact our lives?

In a day when modern society dictates tolerance for and conformity to the lowest standards, Pentecost shows how the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7 calls us to a higher standard of living—God's.

Pentecost's devotional study examines the Sermon on the Mount as a design for living—a great book for personal Bible study or sermon preparation!

Contents

Top Highlights

“When our Lord said ‘Ye are the salt of the earth,’ He was saying He had put them into this world so that they might create a thirst for Himself in the life and experience of those who are dying because they do not know the fountain of living water. A believer’s function is to create a thirst for Jesus Christ.” (Page 80)

“The primary function of salt is to create a thirst.” (Page 80)

“But when we turn to the Beatitude in Matthew 5:6 we find the secret of spiritual gianthood. Our Lord said, ‘Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.’ He stated that the secret of spiritual growth is a spiritual appetite. Those who eat little will grow little; those who eat much will grow much. Those with a voracious appetite for the Word of God and the Person of Jesus Christ, and who satisfy that appetite by feeding on the Word and by communing with the Lord, will grow to spiritual maturity, to gianthood.” (Page 40)

“The conclusion is that Moses’ meekness was not mildness of character, nor gentleness of disposition; but it was his distrust of himself, and his complete trust in God.” (Page 36)

“Christ can and will do for a man what a man recognizes as his need. Until a man recognizes he is lost, he will have no desire to be saved; until a man recognizes he is ungodly, he will have no desire for godliness; until a man recognizes he is separated from God, he will have no desire for a bridge to span that separation. Without an appetite there is no petition. Without a petition there is no action. God has placed believers in the presence of unsaved men so that by our words and lives they might have a hunger created in them for that which has satisfied us.” (Page 81)

Product Details

• Title: Design for Living: Lessons on Holiness from the Sermon on the Mount
• Author: J. Dwight Pentecost
• Publisher: Kregel
• Publication Date: 1975, republished 1999
• Pages: 208

About J. Dwight Pentecost

Dr. Pentecost was a professor of Bible Exposition at Dallas Theological seminary for over sixty years. He was also a pastor for thirty-five years. He wrote twenty-one books, including Things to Come. He died in 2015.