- Occasion, method, and nature of the sermon
- The Beatitudes as kingdom proclamation
- The highway to happiness
- Who is and is not assured the good life
- Sevenfold character of the kingdom
- World's reaction to kingdom living
- Twofold influence of a Christian
- How Jesus fulfills the law
- The Christian's relationship to the law
- The righteousness that exceeds
- Six contrasts of the old and new goodness
- Anger, contempt, and verbal desecration
- Adultery "in the heart"
- No divorce, as then practiced
- How to speak without manipulating
- How to respond to personal injury
- What to do with your enemies
- What it means to be perfect
- Three disciplines, one fundamental
- How to escape the Pharisee trap
- What prayer is and how to pray
- Fasting before God alone
- Three warnings
- The deception of wealth
- The curse and cure of worry
- Judging, correcting, and discerning
- The key that unlocks the heart
- Six rules for kingdom living
- Two ways of life
- How to detect false teachers
- One way into the kingdom
- The life that stands up to everything
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