But this does not begin to describe the problem we have in this country. Every year one million workers are injured in the workplace due to violent attacks from co-workers. High Schools are seething cauldrons of anger and contempt. Every year multiple millions of women are battered. Everywhere you look in this country you see anger and rage and the violence it engenders.
Motorists are increasingly angry and rude to each other.
We have all experienced road rage many times, it is that pervasive. Which brings us to the Sermon on the Mount. He had penetrating insight. Because almost two thousand years ago, in giving the Sermon on the Mount, He made this issue the first issue to address specifically. Christ knew that this was an issue that needed to be directly addressed by those who desired to enter the kingdom of the heavens.