THOUGHTS FROM THE MOUNT OF BLESSING: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 1

On the Mountainside

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/4mQnOS2w-pc?list=PLmtiSpKWaiFDemlnk34s9dzJ83TCOA9fP

Let us in imagination go back to that scene, and, as we sit with the disciples on the mountainside, enter into the thoughts and feelings that filled their hearts.

As they sat upon the green hillside, awaiting the words of the divine Teacher, their hearts were filled with thoughts of future glory. There were scribes and Pharisees who looked forward to the day when they should have dominion over the hated Romans and possess the riches and splendor of the world's great empire. The poor peasants and fishermen hoped to hear the assurance that their wretched hovels, the scanty food, the life of toil, and fear of want, were to be exchanged for mansions of plenty and days of ease. In place of the one coarse garment which was their covering by day and their blanket at night, they hoped that Christ would give them the rich and costly robes of their conquerors.

The message He had proclaimed throughout the land, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matthew 4:17, had arrested the attention of all classes, and had still further fanned the flame of their ambitious hopes.