Introduce the Sermon of the Mount. Help God’s people to realize that it is not a list of virtues and deeds that we must accomplish in order to belong to God’s kingdom. You should also explain what it means to be blessed and when the blessings that are true now will be visually confirmed. Finally, you should encourage God’s people to pursue good works as citizens of his kingdom.
1 Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.