North Suburban Church

And so here we have a liberating distinction, I think, that I hope let somebody up for air at the outset of this sermon series. It's the distinction between perfect obedience and true obedience. You'll hear this over and over and over again throughout this sermon series. Perfect obedience versus true obedience. None of us will perfectly obey the sermon on the mount. Yet, there's a true obedience that's held out not only as possible, but as normative for followers of Jesus, that we can live such that our pattern of life actually aligns in an imperfect but genuine way with the picture Jesus lays out in this sermon.