…We continue our latest Sunday sermon series “Meet the Messiah” through the Gospel of Matthew. We have reached the point where Jesus Christ has entered fully into His public Ministry. The crowds are coming, and Jesus is responding. There is an unknown span of time between Matthew 4 with the calling of the first disciples, and Matthew’s documentation of the greatest sermon ever preached, “The Sermon on the Mount” in Matthew 5-7. If you can this week, read these chapters. What Jesus says is “astonishing”. This is the word Matthew uses to describe the people’s reaction at the conclusion of Jesus’ sermon. We need the strongest of words to describe the greatness of this sermon. No one has ever said better things than Jesus did to the people then and to us today…