Mountain top sermons bookend the preaching ministry of Christ. Like Moses before Him, Jesus offers the way of blessing and the way of cursing; beatitudes and woes. The negative and parasitic nature of sin is set alongside the positive and life-giving nature of righteousness. In the case of the scribes and the Pharisees, time had run out. The Father sent His last messenger, His own Son, and He was murdered by these wicked tenants, just like the long line of messengers before Him. The murder of Jesus is the final event which seals the fate of these religious leaders as God catastrophically destroys them, their city, and their Temple, signaling the passing away of the old covenant world after it has given birth to the new covenant world. The heirs of God's kingdom are now marked by faith and not by ethnicity or geopolitics, and so the promise of blessing and cursing; of righteousness and wickedness remains important. Which path will you take?

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