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Sermon On The Mount
The Sermon on the Mount is the radical doctrine of the kingdom of God. Although many people today who call themselves Christians do not practice the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. If we talk about the kingdom manifesto, I think we interpreted it as the radical world changing manifesto. When Jesus began to preach among the crowds, many of them were not people who perhaps today we might think as the perfect Christians. However, the goal was to teach the scriptures. In other words, the manifesto taught them how a disciple of Jesus must live in every aspect of your life.The Sermon on the Mount show us the clear teaching of what God wants and expects from us.

The Sermon on the Mount shows the ethics of Jesus, the way of how he wanted


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