Comparing Psalm 23 And The Sermon On The Mount

Psalm 23 and The Sermon on the Mount are both so similar and different messages about God. Psalm 23 and The Sermon on the Mount both talk about all the good things God can do to all of the of the people who are nice and fair around the world. Both the psalm and the sermon, mention how everyone will always have something good and how we should never fear anything because God will always be accompanying us in our good and bad moments. However, the main difference is how they are being narrated. Psalm 23 gives the impression that it is a prayer, while the Sermon on the Mount is a speech being given to a group of people.
The main idea of Psalm 23 is how it says that God will always provide everything a person needs, and also take care of us, as long as the person seeking help from him does good to the world. There is a part where it says that the speaker walks thru the valley of the shadow of the dead, but not alone as he walks thru it with the guidance of God and his shepherd. This is telling us how we should never fear anything, not even
Another theme that the Sermon is trying to convey is if we are to forgive the people who do bad to us, he will let us enter his kingdom of heaven and be happy. Furthermore, this does not exactly mean that God will provide you happiness, but as we forgive people we do not have to carry the burden of our problems. One of the ways on how Psalm 23 and The Sermon on the Mount are not alike is how the Psalm is more of a healing prayer and The Sermon on the Mount is made more to teach us. The similarity that stood the most out to me was how they both ended stating that the end of their journey will be in the kingdom or house of the lord. Both, the Psalm and the Sermon, are structured and told differently, but they lead to the same