9 [e]“This is how you are to pray:
Our Father in heaven,[f]
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,[g]
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
11 [h]Give us today our daily bread;
12 and forgive us our debts,[i]
as we forgive our debtors;
13 and do not subject us to the final test,[j]
but deliver us from the evil one.
14 [k]If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.
The Sermon on the Mount, as presented in Matthew Chapters 5, 6, and 7, is about divine morality the social architecture that God designed for the primate species and particularly humans. In these chapters, Jesus teaches what it means to live within God’s creation, in union with Him, what He calls the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is what is what is achieved by living within divine morality, called tsedeq by the ancient Hebrews. The Sermon on the Mount reveals how God has designed human social architecture, inviting us to dwell within it according to divine morality. Jesus’s words guide us on how to live in harmony with God’s intentions, experience the grace that comes from such living, and understand the consequences when we fall short of this divine calling.