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Podcast Introduction Our reading today is Matthew 5-7: The Sermon on the Mount. After that I’ll have some comments. Then we’ll do our “On This Day In Church History” segment, and we have a couple prayer requests. Comments Jesus had begun drawing large crowds by now. He taught in synagogues, he preaching the gospel of the kingdom of Heaven, and he healed all kinds of disease and sickness among the people. He became famous, and people are always drawn to famous people. In Jesus' case, they wanted to see miracles and hear him teach. So on this particular day, when Jesus saw the crowd, He walked up a mountain so that his voice could be heard by them, and once he found a place to sit, he began speaking. It was common in that day for teachers to sit, and students to stand, and we have other examples Jesus sitting while teaching. Matthew 13:2, 23:2, 24:3, Luke 4:20. Given the denseness of Jesus' message, there is no way to talk about every point in one episode of this podcast. But I do have a couple o