The Sermon on the Mountainside Come to the Mountainside

The Sermon on the Mountainside

Come to the Mountainside

Where is the mountainside Jesus gave His sermon on?

It is found in Matthew chapter 5

That is its location

We are not given a physical location other than it was in Galilee

The mountainside Jesus is teaching from

Is the mountain you and I face to be happy and blessed

Be a listener, Jesus is about to speak, to teach you

And I how to be blessed and happy

Looking at his disciples, he said:

"Blessed…” Luke 6:20

Come to the Mountainside

Where is the mountainside

Jesus gave His sermon on?

It is found in Matthew chapter 5.

That is its location.

You will have to imagine a mountain

because the scriptures do not give us a

physical location other than it was in Galilee.

We also find this sermon in Luke 6.

Here we see in Verse 12, Jesus went out to a

mountainside where He spent the night in prayer.

Verse 17 tells us…

 “He went down with them

and stood on a level place.”

A large crowd came to hear

Him and receive miracles.

Maybe the mountain is not the physical place…

 But to help us, think of another mountain where

Moses brought the Law of God to the people.

Luke, in the first 10 verses of Luke 6,

reveals struggles Jesus had with legalism,

the Law or letter of the law that kills

and the Spirit that gives life.

What brought the crowd to the

Mountain is found in Matthew 4:23-25…

Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and he healed them. Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him.

Luke 6:17-19…

 A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled by evil spirits were cured, and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.

Moses’ Sermon to the people was…

See, I am setting before you

today a blessing and a curse —

Deuteronomy 11:26

Jesus follows the same pattern in His Sermon.

To be blessed is to be happy,

to be well off, fortunate.

We must realize nothing is one-sided.

A coin has two sides.

The earth has two sides, one side

has light and the other darkness.

The issue is which side

are you positioned on?

So the difference between

blessing and curse is a choice.

To make good choices you

have to be well informed.

We need to realize Jesus did heal the sick.

He did do miracles to bless the people…

 But He also taught us so we would be

informed to make right decisions, so

we could bring blessing upon our lives.

As you prepare to sit at the mountainside…

Don’t sit there waiting for the sermon to be over

and the altar call for healing to be announced. 

Don’t be like the Pharisees and Sadducees

who were comfortable with formulas of the law.

The mountainside Jesus is teaching from is…

 The mountain you and I face

to be happy and blessed.

Be a listener.

 Jesus is about to speak, to teach you

and I how to be blessed and happy.

Looking at his disciples, he said:

"Blessed…”

Luke 6:20

Scripture Reading

Matthew 4:23-5:3

23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. 24 News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and he healed them. 25 Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him.

Matthew 5 NIV

 5:1 Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, 2 and he began to teach them, saying:

3 "Blessed

Luke 6:12-20 NIV

12 One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. 13 When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles: 14 Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, 15 Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot, 16 Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

17 He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, 18 who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled by evil spirits were cured, 19 and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.

20 Looking at his disciples, he said:

"Blessed