"Many people today are saying, “My religion is the Sermon on the Mount.” Very candidly, the Sermon on the Mount as a religion is making more hypocrites today than anything I know of – because you know you’re not keeping it. If you are honest, you know you are not living by it. But it does reveal to you that you come short of the glory of God." --Vernon McGee
In another place he says again:
"Matthew records the Sermon on the Mount as does no other Gospel writer. Why? He gives it for a people under Law. May I say to you that it's given for people who have a religion. Have you ever noticed that the liberal always goes to it? I've talked to any number of men and women who have said that the Sermon on the Mount was their religion. But I haven't found anybody yet who's keeping it. You'd better change your religion, friend, unless you keep it. Our need is not religion; we need a Savior." --Vernon McGee
There is a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Immanuel’s veins;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains.
-- William Cowper
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