About the Book
You can’t obey the Sermon on the Mount—and that’s good news.
For centuries, Matthew 5–7 has been handed out as a to-do list for better Christians: try harder, love more, worry less, be perfect. Andrew Farley argues that this reading misses the point so badly it steals the very thing Jesus came to give.
Jesus wasn’t handing out a self-improvement plan. He was raising the Law’s standard to an impossible height—cut off your hand, pluck out your eye, never look with lust, be perfect as God is perfect—so that every honest listener would put down their scorecard and reach for grace instead.
“Jesus didn’t say these things to make you better. He said them to show you that you can’t do it. And that’s where the good news begins.”
What you’ll find inside
- A verse-by-verse walk through the hardest sayings of Jesus—without the softening.
- Why the Sermon on the Mount is Law at full volume, not the new Christian rulebook.
- How the mirror of the Law drives us to the finished work of Christ.
- What actually changes when grace, not effort, becomes the engine of your life.
- Honest answers for anyone exhausted by trying harder.
Who it’s for
Readers who love Jesus but feel crushed by His words. Believers stuck on the treadmill of performance. Pastors and teachers looking for a clear, grace-centered reading of the most quoted sermon in history.