You're not going to be here. Welcome, we're Scott and Maureen 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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so that you can get them on your devices at home. 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 is 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 thistles 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 beautiful weeds or thistles. I had the long lens and

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