Character and Conduct

Pastor Bill Bush · Apr 29, 2024

In the opening of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus establishes that genuine faith is never primarily external. The Beatitudes describe the interior character of someone who truly knows God — a person who recognizes their need for Him, mourns their sin, chooses humility, and hungers for righteousness — and that transformed heart naturally overflows into a life of mercy, purity, peacemaking, and joyful mission. Pastor Bill argues that if the character is real, the conduct will follow; if the conduct exists without the character, nothing of eternal value has actually changed.