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Sermon On The Mount

Presented as a Connect Group resource for New Covenant Church Bryanston
Released May 2026

Hello, and welcome to our six week series on the sermon on the mount! Over the next six episodes we will be exploring the beatitudes, the largest recorded sermon of Jesus found in Matthew chapter 5-7.

This sermon captures Jesus’ teachings of the values and ethics of what He calls “the kingdom of heaven” envisioning His followers to what it looks like for this kingdom to be established in and through them. The beatitudes give words to the life and work of the Lord Jesus and he calls His followers to live the same. We look forward to journeying with you!

Lecturers

Stuart Stark, Michael Lloyd, Joshua Marais, and Lindi Marais

Course Length

6 episodes, 67 minutes in total

Required Resources

Just your Bible!

Episodes

Built On The Rock

Joshua Marais, Michael Lloyd, and Stuart Stark

This week, we focus on the final portion of the sermon on the mount. The Lord Jesus brings everything He has taught to a point of decision. Matthew 7 is not a collection of disconnected sayings. It is a series of contrasts that press one central question: What are you building your life on?

Seek First The Kingdom

Stuart Stark, Lindi Marais, and Michael Lloyd

This week, The Lord Jesus addresses something that touches all of us: money, security, and anxiety. In Matthew 6:19–34, He speaks directly to where we place our trust and what we allow to shape our sense of safety and worth.

A Hidden Life With God

Joshua Marais, Lindi Marais, and Stuart Stark

This week, Jesus turns His attention to something quieter, but no less confronting: our life with God when no one else is watching. In Matthew 6:1–18, Jesus speaks about practices that were central to Jewish spiritual life — giving, prayer, and fasting — but He reframes them around motive rather than method.

Kingdom Relationships

Michael Lloyd, Joshua Marais, and Lindi Marais

This week, Jesus brings the Kingdom uncomfortably close to home. He begins to address the way God’s reign reshapes our relationships — how we deal with anger, desire, truth, conflict, power, and even those who oppose us. What follows is some of the most confronting teaching in the Sermon, not because it introduces new rules, but because it exposes what is happening beneath the surface of our lives.

Salt, Light and the Law

Joshua Marais, Stuart Stark, and Michael Lloyd

This week, we will be diving into our next portion of the sermon, which we have entitled “Salt, Light and The Law”. This classic illustration of the followers of Jesus being both salt and light in the world calls the apprentices of Jesus to live in a way that reflects His character and nature to a watching world.

Our portion of scripture is found in Matthew 5: 13-20.

The Upside Down Kingdom

Stuart Stark, Michael Lloyd, and Lindi Marais

Our first portion of this sermon that we will be unpacking is found in Matthew 5:1-12. Here, The Lord Jesus begins to introduce us to the nature of the upside down kingdom.