In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gives us all the instructions we need to live life in his kingdom. The problem is we don’t usually follow it! At the end of the sermon he says that the wise person will HEAR and DO the things that he says and will be like a person who builds their house on a solid foundation of rock. The key is to hear AND do what Jesus says, to follow the blueprint laid out in the Sermon on the Mount.
Sermon on the Mount, Follow the Blueprint
• November 22, 2020
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