Sitting on a Mountainside, Jesus gave what is known as the Sermon on the Mount. Included in this Sermon were the Beatitudes, special blessings that Jesus promised for righteous living. He also asks His followers to be good examples and to love their enemies.
By this point in His ministry, it was clear that Jesus's teachings would be unlike what the people of His time were used to hearing: "The poor will receive the Kingdom of God? The meek will inherit the earth? Blessed are the persecuted? The scribes and Pharisees were not teaching such things, and yet those who truly understood God's law, these doctrines felt right.
An eye for an eye and hate thy enemy were lesser laws (Matthew 5: 38,43) But Jesus Christ had come to teach a higher law design to help us one day become "perfect even as our Father which is in Heaven is perfect." Matthew 5:48
Jesus taught them how to pray and encouraged them to repent of their sins and not judge others. He taught that those who obey His words have a strong foundation for their lives. Those who heard Jesus were astonished for He taught with the power of God.
I love how he blessed people as he talked to them.
Con amor,
Vero
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