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MOUNTAINTOP MANIFESTO Matthew 4:24 So the fame of Jesus also spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, epileptics, and paralytics, and he healed them. And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan. On one such occasion Jesus sat with his disciples on a mountaintop and from there he began to teach the crowd that had been following him about what are called the Beatitudes, which means blessings – the blessings of being deeply fulfilled in soul and spirit. This teaching of Jesus is also known as ‘The Sermon on the Mount’. Today I’m calling that Sermon on the Mount the ‘Mountaintop Manifesto’ A manifesto is a proclamation of a grand intention that states where we have come from and where we are and the plan to get where we are going. Jesus starts the manifesto with the words; “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (