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In his "Sermon on the Mount" Jesus expands this text: "Repent and believe in the gospel" (Mark 1:15, RSV). The Sermon on the Mount does not tell us how to be saved. The sermon from the Cross does that: "Jesus, remember me" ... "I tell you the truth today, you will be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:42-43). That's how to be saved: look at the Crucified Lord, and say, "Lord, remember me." So, the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5–7 does not tell us how to be saved. It tells us who are saved. What are the signs that someone has found God? The Sermon on the Mount tells you whether you have eternal life or not: not by whether your behavior matches the Sermon's ideals; no one's behavior does. But by whether the Sermon's ideals are the ideals of your heart. Are the ideals of the Sermon the ideals you hunger and thirst for? The Sermon on the Mount is not a creed. It's an agenda. It is not telling us what articles of faith to cherish or what we are to believe. It is telling us what to be, and what to do. Read through the whole Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5 – 7) in one sitting. How fully are its teachings the ideals of your heart? What part of your life do you need to surrender to God?