Amen and amen. Hey church, if you got your Bibles and I really hope you do grab

a Matthew chapter 5 is where we're going to be as we continue in week four of if the tomb is empty.

And what we've been doing is just watching how God has displayed his glory on these

mountaintops and his love and mercy down in the valleys.

And I want you to turn there, and we want to look at this.

We've studied this scripture actually a few times in the past several years.

And I hope you know this.

I really hope you know this.

If you've been around Bible study a while, you know this, but some of you are new.

That just because you've read a passage or studied a passage, you are not

done with that passage. I hope you know that. Do you know why? Because the Lord is not done with you.

Like I do this for a living, and every single time, it's amazing to me how I come back to a passage

over and over and over and God has something fresh and new for me every single time. Because

his word is living, his word is active.

This is not just an ancient text,

but this is the very word of God.

And so part of the reason I want to study this once again

is because Jesus is gonna start this sermon.

His longest sermon, his most famous sermon,

it's called the sermon on the mount

because he teaches it on a mountain. That's what's called that. And it starts out with what I think

is one of the most misunderstood passages of scripture, maybe in our whole Bible. And it's called

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