Pulpit Message Introduction for Oct.21

In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus preaches the Constitution of the Kingdom. Jesus preaches what he practices. His life proves his words. Measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet. Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was 30, and then for three years He was an itinerant preacher. He never owned a home. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put His foot inside a big city. He never traveled 200 miles from the place where He was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself. While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against Him. His friends ran away, one of them betrayed Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves. While He was dying His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth—His coat. When He was dead, He was taken down and laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend. Many centuries have come and gone, and today He is the centerpiece of the human race and the leader of the column of progress. We are far within the mark when we say that all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever were built, all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that one solitary life.
講壇信息介紹
耶穌講登山寶訓，耶穌不單是講，祂也把這個天國的大憲章，切切實實的行了出來。這位溫柔謙卑的耶穌，出生在很少為人所知的小村落，母親是一個農家女。祂在另外一個小村莊長大，在父親的木匠店裏工作。三十歲后開始旅行佈道，先后三年之久。祂沒有寫過一本書，也沒有擔當過甚麼職務，也沒有一個屬於自己的家。他從沒有進過大學，也沒有涉足大的城市。足跡所到的地方，離祂出生地最遠不逾兩百公里。一切和偉大的人有關的東西，祂全沒有；祂連一張證書也沒有，有的只是祂自己。年紀很輕的時候大家就看不起祂，反對祂。祂的朋友拋棄祂，其中有一個更出賣了祂。祂被交在敵人手中，受審判，為人戲笑，嘲弄。祂被釘在一個十字架上，在兩個強盜當中。祂在世上擁有唯一的一件外衣，被執刑的士兵拈鬮來分。祂死后被人從十字架上取下來，埋葬在一個朋友讓出來的墳墓里。可是死亡沒有勝過祂，祂的復活給一切信他的人帶來了無比的希望和力量，祂愛的福音從祂生活的小城開始，逐漸傳遍全地球，改變了千萬人的生命。今天，祂已成為人類的中心，世界進步的動力。我們可以絕對不誇張地說，把全世界所有的陸軍海軍，所有議會的議員，所有統治過人類的皇帝，通通加起來，對地球上人民生活的影響力，還遠逺不及這個溫柔謙卑的耶穌哩。