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The Sermon on the Mount

  [Bob's Blog]
06/02/2009
By Towell, Bob

As I read, meditate, study the Sermon on the Mount, I have a new and growing appreciation for Jesus' teaching on what it means to live within the Kingdom of God (God's Rule and Reign). Certainly the Sermon reflects the values and ethics of the Kingdom. (By the way, even though Matthew puts it in a sermon format that can be spoken in 15 minutes, scholars agree that it was a compilation of Jesus' teaching).  It seems to me that anyone one who calls themselves a follower of Jesus Christ, must take the Sermon on the Mount seriously.  By that I mean,  a student of Jesus will read it often, meditate on it regularly and pray that by God's Spirit she might live it out daily and be the salt and light Jesus intends for us all to be.