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Here is a different overview of the Sermon on the Mount, completed in sections 54h & 54i. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajwehw_AT0s

Observe:

A couple of things stand out to me (Lisa) in these same two sections mentioned above:

1.  Do to others what you would have them do to you.  Is this not something that your parents, grandparents, teachers, and any elder in your life taught you?  Did you know at the time (or the hundreds of times) you heard it that it "summed up the law and the prophets"?  That, my friend, covers the majority of the Old Testament!  Thank you, Jesus for this very memorable, brief, doable, teachable command.   

2. "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven..."  If there is anything that moves me to continue to reach out to religious people, it is this.  Religious people can speak the language.  They can volunteer, give money, and own a lot of Bibles.  They can greet you at the church door and, at Grace, sit with you at a table and have a great conversation.  But I don't ever want to assume that they are a follower of Jesus, and they don't need to be prayed for and talked to about a genuine faith in Jesus Christ.

Relate:

A key emphasis of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount is that His followers are to be “doers” of what He is teaching them. Notice His words in Matthew 7:24, “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.” Out of all the topics that Jesus addresses in the Sermon on the Mount, the one that struck me the most was the need to apply His teachings to my life. Rather than just reading the Bible and hearing a sermon, I will seek to apply at least one truth to my life immediately.

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