Endorsements

“I always enjoy reading Dr. Akin’s writings and learn so much. He always is careful with the text, with a view not only to the immediate context and the book itself, but he also maintains a canonical view as he writes. This work is no different. As I read this commentary, I often found myself highlighting and marking whole sections. He asks the kinds of questions that I ask from the text, and his answers are researched and articulated as only a man can who has spent decades studying, teaching, and preaching the Bible with Spirit-empowered wisdom. Many of Jesus’s words are hard to hear in the Sermon on the Mount, but Dr. Akin serves as a wise guide through difficult passages. This series fills a niche that is needed, and the interspersed quotes from fellow pastor-scholars, hymn lyrics, personal anecdotes, and reflection questions from Dr. Akin are a boon to all who will read it. It is immensely practical. Anyone who spends time with Jesus’s words from the Sermon on the Mount will be tremendously helped along in their study of it by Dr. Akin’s careful and pastoral writing. To this end I recommend it highly! It is a must-read for all who want to understand and preach ‘the Sermon.’ This will serve the church for many years to come.”

Barry Joslin
Professor of Christian theology
Boyce College of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

“When you do a commentary on the greatest sermon ever preached, you better bring your ‘A’ game. Dr. Danny Akin has done just that. His chapter on one of the most difficult topics the church faces today—divorce—is worth the price of the book. I commend this especially to preachers whenever they decide to preach on any or all of the greatest preaching from the greatest preacher who ever lived.”

James Merritt
Former SBC president and pastor of Cross Pointe Church in Atlanta

“When it comes to the exposition of God’s Word, there are few people I trust as much as Danny Akin. For many decades now, Danny has not only been a faithful model of Christ-exalting preaching but has been unceasing in his efforts to train the next generation of pastors to proclaim the glories of Christ and him crucified. I have no doubt that this volume from Dr. Akin on our Lord’s most famous sermon will be of great benefit to students of the Bible for many years to come.”

Russell Moore
President
The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention

“Too many commentaries seem to be written for academicians and do not meet the needs of the busy pastor or the average church member. Danny Akin’s commentary is a wonderful exception. He mines the best resources on the Sermon on the Mount to produce a commentary that is exegetically sound, doctrinally faithful, devotionally rich, packed with helpful illustrations, driven by a constant concern for practical application, and accompanied by excellent outlines that can jump-start a pastor’s sermon preparation. Highly recommended!”

Charles Quarles
Research professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology
Charles Page Chair of Biblical Theology, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary