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By: Curtis Baker

This week we come to the final few verses of Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the Mount. For the last nine months we have walked carefully through this sermon and saw what Jesus had to teach us about life and how it is to be lived. Jesus answers for us all the great questions that have been asked in every time and in every place. “What is the good life?” “Who is a good person?” As we have seen, Jesus’ answers to these questions are quite different from what we have learned from our culture. According to the wisdom of our own times, “the good life” might involve making a six figure income, having a large updated home, a nice vehicle, and plenty of vacation time to fish, shop, or play golf. A “good person” might be defined as one who holds a good job, keeps to his own business, and is a productive member of society. They are not the only ways our culture might define the good life and the good person, but certainly they are not far from the mark.

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