perhaps the most challenging part of the teaching of Jesus and the most famous by the way is found in Matthew 5-7 this is what we know as The Sermon on the Mount these chapters prove that Jesus was more than a carpenter more than a preacher and more than a mere man from his first word he spoke as if he were the author and interpreter of scripture his words and their tone amazed the crowds as they Astound us today and in the sermon of the mount we have a set of Ethics that has never been bettered a set of images

that have never been forgotten and a set of instructions so relevant and challenging for us today as if they were written just for us teachers change lives and the lives of millions of people have been changed by a teacher they met in grade school or High School good teachers leave a deep imprint and the American Author Philip Wy said one good teacher in a lifetime can sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen I’m sure all of you can think back over your lives and remember one or maybe two particular teachers the teacher who

really made the first impact on my life entered my life 70 years ago I was in the first grade and believe it or not after 70 years I remember her name her name was Miss gadel she taught in the school that I went to when my father was a pastor in cedo Ohio she encouraged me and helped me I felt so out of place for some reason like we all do school’s a pretty rough place to be if you’re there for the first time she made an impact on my life and I’m sure you can remember somebody like that as well America is full of Godly professors and

teachers I believe teachers share a noble profession and I believe that because if you’re a teacher you have chosen the same vocational opportunity as the Lord Jesus Christ he was the master teacher he was often addressed not as Jesus or Lord but his title of teacher now if you were take a concordance especially an unbridged concordance and look up the word teacher or Rabbi you’d be surprised Jesus is called teacher or Rabbi more than 45 times in the New Testament Jesus is called Rabbi or teacher by the first person following the resurrection