Welcome, we're Scott and Moring Proctor and this is Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me

Podcast.

Today's lesson is Matthew, chapter 5 and Luke chapter 6 called Blessed Are Ye and it's

about a section of the Sermon on the Mount.

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The Sermon on the Mount was called by President Joseph Fielding Smith, the greatest sermon

that was ever preached so far as we know and it was so important that it was given with

some changes again to the people in the Book of Mormon when the Savior arrived.

President Harold B. Lee called it, quote, the Constitution for a perfect life.

What secrets must be hidden there?

We need to take you to this place.

There is a traditional site in Israel where this took place and it's most likely authentic.

It's just above the north shore of the Sea of Galilee on a beautiful hill overlooking

that entire Sea of Galilee basin.

It's beautiful and we were there one morning shooting some photographs for one of our projects

and we had run to take pictures of a gorgeous sunrise and we had tried to capture just the

right light and there were birds flying through the air and the grasses were beautiful and

as we were heading back up from taking the sunrise I realized that in our storyboard I had

to shoot some pictures of some weeds or some fissils that also fit into the story and

so I pulled out the big camera with that long lens on it and I was focusing in on some

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