- Posted December 12, 2025
Rightly so, at Christmas, people who are suffering want to know, “Why should I be merry? What basis do…
If we actually take the gospel, the essential message of Jesus Christ, and we live it out, what will it look like? That’s what the Sermon on the Mount is about. And in this part of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, we get to the area of money and possessions. Jesus tells us three things we can draw out here: 1) how money exercises power over us, 2) why money exercises power over us, and 3) how we can break the power. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on May 2, 1999. Series: