We recently began a sermon series at church on the Sermon on the Mount, so I've decided to dig into Lloyd-Jones'
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount to compliment that study. Even in the first 20 pages, I've found a number of excellent quotes. Here are a few which I think are good to ponder as we embark on this new year:
...Merely to read the Bible is not enough in and of itself. It is possible for us to read the Bible in such a mechanical manner that we derive no benefit from doing so... It is a good thing to read the Bible daily, but it can be quite profitless if we merely do so for the sake of being able to say we read the Bible daily.
The Sermon on the Mount is nothing but a great and grand and perfect elaboration of what our Lord called His 'new commandment.'
The Lord Jesus Christ died to enable us to live the Sermon on the Mount... He made this possible for me.
I am never tired of saying that what the Church needs to do is not to organize evangelistic campaigns to attract outside people, but to begin herself to live the Christian life. If she did that, men and women would be crowding into our buildings. They would say, 'What is the secret of this?'
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