Is the Sermon on the Mount for Today?

Is the Sermon on the Mount for today? Very many earnest believers think that this sermon is for another age. This is a tragic error, really tragic. This stunning sermon placed by divine providence at the beginning of the New Testament contains what it does and is worded the way it is--to put a spiritual shovel in your hand (Luke 6:46-49) and send you to the epistles and back to the prophets so that ypou rightly appraise true redemptive experience. This sermon begins with a literary device called an inclusio that identifies who is in the kingdom: Matthew 5:3 & Matthew 5:10. In other words if the Beattitudes do not describe you in at least seed form you are not in the kingdom. The seed may be small. An acorn contains an oak tree--in seed form. One of the reasons classic dispensationalists are frequently plagued with antinomianism is their failure to understand what the Sermon on the Mount really is and why it is located where it is in the cannon of scripture. Please read Martyn Lloyd-Jones marvelous book, STUDIES IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. You do not need to give up premillennialism to embrace a proper view of the sermon on the Mount. A right grasp of this scriptural content will raise and harmonize your soteriology, improve your homiletics, and rightly refine what you believe about scriptural assurance of salvation. The Sermon on the mount nowhere tells you how to become a regenerated believer, but it describes the character of regenerated believers so that you get your spiritual shovel and dig down into His sayings, as well as the epistles and prophets (which He did not come to destroy) and make very sure thar your "name is written on the white and fair page."