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Hi everyone. 
Welcome back to the logical. 

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Bible study podcast today, we're
looking at a quite a long 

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reading, Matthew 5, verses 17 to
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And so we're going to do things 
a little differently in today's 

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podcast because this long 
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is actually broken down into 
shorter chunks during the 

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weekdays. 
And so what I'm going to do in 

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today's podcast is just make 
some overall comments about this

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overall text because it's such 
an interesting complex one. 

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I don't think I'll be able to do
it justice in such in the short 

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time, we have to look at this 
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this passage comes around again,
in the weekday time, we'll break

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it down into the chunks as it 
appears every day in the week 

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days. so let's start by reading 
this long passage from Matthew 

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chapter 5, verses 17 to 37 Jesus
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imagine that. 
I have come to abolish the law 

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or the prophets, I have come not
to abolish but to complete them.

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I tell you solemnly, till Heaven
and Earth disappear, not one 

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dot, not one little stroke. 
She'll disappear from the law 

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until its purpose is achieved. 
Therefore the man who infringes 

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even one of the least of these 
Commandments and teaches others 

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to do the same will be 
considered the least in the 

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Kingdom of Heaven, but the man 
who keeps them and teaches them 

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will be considered great in the 
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For I tell you if your virtue 
goes, no deeper than that of the

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scribes and Pharisees, you will 
never get into the kingdom of 

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heaven. 
You have learned how it was said

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to our ancestors. 
You must not kill. 

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And if anyone does kill, he must
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but I say this to you, anyone 
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will answer for it before the 
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If a man calls, his brother 
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before the Sanhedrin and if a 
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answer for it in Hellfire. 
So then if you are bringing your

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offering to The Altar and there 
remember that your brother has 

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something against you leave your
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go and be reconciled with your 
brother first and then come back

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and present your offering. 
Come to terms with your 

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opponent, in good time, while 
you were still on the way to the

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court with him, or he may hand 
you over to the judge and the 

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judge to the officer and you'll 
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I tell you. 
Solemnly, you will not get out 

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until you have paid the last 
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You have learned how it was 
said, you must not commit 

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adultery. 
But I say this to you. 

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If a man looks at his at a 
woman, lustfully he has already 

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committed adultery with her in 
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If you're right, I should cause 
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throw it away for it will. 
Do you less harm to lose, one 

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part of you than, to have your 
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And if your right hand should 
cause you to sin, cut it off and

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throw it away for it will, do 
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Out of you than to have your 
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Go to hell. 
It is also been said, anyone who

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divorces his wife wife must give
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say this to you, everyone who 
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the case of fornication, makes 
her an adulteress and anyone who

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marries a divorced woman commits
adultery Again, you have learned

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how it was said to her 
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your oath, but must fulfill your
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But I say this to you, do not 
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since that is God's Throne or by
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Since that is its foot his 
footstool or by Jerusalem, since

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that is the city of the great 
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Do not swear by your own head. 
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single hair white or black. 
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If you mean yes? 
Know if you mean, no anything 

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more than this comes from the 
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So that's our long passage 
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From Matthew Chapter 5, which 
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Mount, which in which is where 
Jesus gives a long discourse in 

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the gospel of Matthew and 
there's so so much that could be

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said about this passage. 
It's The Sermon on the Mount has

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been interpreted many different 
ways and misunderstood in many 

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different ways. 
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And each of these mini 
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could have a lot said about it. 
And so, I'm not going to be able

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to break down things in the way.
I'm normally would with such a 

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long text. 
So I'm just going to make some 

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overall comments. 
But when week, 10 of ordinary 

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time comes around, we do here 
this passage broken down into 

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little paragraph. 
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hear from three or four verses 
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there's three or four more 
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So, when week 10 comes around 
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for week 10, I will break it 
down a little more and that will

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really get into the nitty-gritty
of The Sermon on the Mount and 

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help. 
You understand what Jesus is 

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saying, specifically in each 
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So, here we have Jesus, starting
to be attitudes. 

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And the most important concept 
that we heard from this 

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particular passage, is that 
overall Jesus is contrasting. 

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The righteousness of the 
Pharisees with the true 

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righteousness. 
He desires, that's the principle

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of the entire thing. 
He says, you cannot enter the 

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Kingdom of Heaven. 
If you only do what the 

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Pharisees do, and the Pharisees 
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external. 
All righteousness things, but 

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they'd forgotten about internal 
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And Jesus says, if you want to 
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you need to have internal 
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Not just external. 
So, he actually says that early 

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in the, in the verse that he 
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virtue goes, no deeper than that
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you will never get into the 
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And then he goes on to make 
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You have heard it said, you must
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with its deeper meaning. 
So the ferry You were really 

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good at the externals of, do not
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They believe that, and they 
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forgotten the true heart, and 
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And so Jesus, in this section is
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his disciples to recognize the 
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And that they need to fulfill 
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the law. 
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basically in a nutshell. 
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although he does go into some 
specific teachings in there as 

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well. 
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legalistic way of the Pharisees,
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not the internal righteousness 
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of heaven. 
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Pharisees were not showing the 
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required for the kingdom. 
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this passage says, if you want 
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need to obey these Commandments.
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and teach others to do. 
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great in the Kingdom of Heaven. 
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considered the least as in This 
is Jesus introducing things 

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saying I'm about to give you 
some Commandments of what the 

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law really means. 
If you follow them, you'll get 

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into the kingdom. 
If you don't, you won't get into

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the kingdom. 
So that's the basic idea of this

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passage. 
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Sermon on the Mount in. 
So so many ways, it's one of the

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most frequently referenced part 
of the catechism because of all 

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the specific teachings that 
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live as a question, what it 
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What the Commandments mean what 
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fulfilled, the law that all gets
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So in this podcast, I just want 
to mention a few which give an 

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overall summary of the meaning 
of the Beatitudes and the sermon

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on the The mound. 
So paragraph 577 is in the 

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section about Jesus in the law 
it says at the beginning of the 

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Sermon on the Mount, Jesus 
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he presented God's law, given on
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During the first Covenant in 
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Covenant, quote do not think 
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law or the prophets. 
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on to quote, quite a few verses 
from the start of what we heard 

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today from Matthew 5 paragraph, 
5 9 2 in G in the section about 

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Jesus and Israel's faith. 
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the law of Sinai, but rather 
fulfilled it with such 

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Perfection that he revealed its 
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the transgressions against it. 
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Church's teaching that Jesus did
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or the law on Sinai. 
In fact he came to give it its 

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most deepest fulfillment, it's 
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And obviously, that's unpacked 
here in The Sermon on the Mount.

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Paragraph 1967. 
There's a discussion about what 

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is the new law or the law of the
Gospel. 

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The law of the Gospel, fulfills 
refines, surpasses and leads the

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Old Law to its perfection in the
Beatitudes, the new law. 

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Fulfills the Divine Promises by 
elevating, an orienting them 

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toward the Kingdom of Heaven. 
It is addressed to those who are

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open to accepting this New Hope 
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The poor, The Humble, The 
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those persecuted on account of 
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And so marks out the surprising 
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Paragraph 2054 in the section on
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What must I do? 
Says Jesus acknowledged The Ten 

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Commandments but he also showed 
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in their letter. 
He preached a righteousness, 

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which exceeds that of the 
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that of the Gentiles. 
He unfolded all the demands of 

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The Commandments you have heard 
that it was said to the men of 

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old you shall not kill but I say
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angry with his brother Will be 
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respect for human life. 
It says in The Sermon on the 

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Mount, the Lord recalls the 
Commandment you shall not kill 

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and adds to it. 
The prescription of anger hatred

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and Vengeance. 
Going further Christ asks his 

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disciples to turn the other 
cheek to love their enemies and 

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it goes on from there. 
So there's so so much 

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interesting stuff in The Sermon 
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And Jesus is actually doing more
than one thing here at once. 

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When he preaches the Sermon on 
the Mount, he's saying multiple 

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things at once and there's 
multiple layers to what he's 

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saying and it's well worth 
unpacking. 

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So I invite you to come back. 
If you continue listening, and 

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then, in week, 10 of ordinary 
time, we'll unpack each of these

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little paragraphs of Matthew 5 
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Thanks for listening, please 
Tune In Tune in again tomorrow, 

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and we'll continue to look at 
the gospel of Mark will continue

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where we will pick up, where we 
left off, in yesterday's 

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podcast.