How do we live ‘the successful Christian life’ beyond platitudes like ‘your best life now?’ How do we live effectively as citizens of the kingdom of God in Christ? The Sermon on the Mounts is our declaration of independence from worldly thinking. It is a Christian manifesto that describes a life lived out in obedience to Christ. Our first sermon counter-intuitively comes from the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 7:24-29, with Success Defined.