Sermon on the Mount -- Day 3

Chapter 171, the third Sermon on the Mount, is delivered privately to Jesus's apostles and about one hundred disciples on a mountain. Its purpose is to prepare them for their mission. Jesus emphasizes forgetting the "inferior ego"—human passions, pride, and scruples—to achieve perfect discipleship and unity with God. He declares them the "salt of the earth" and "light of the world," warning against spiritual corruption and "sevenfold paganism". Jesus pronounces woes upon negligent shepherds, masters rejecting divine Wisdom, and spiritually dead priests who corrupt the flock. This teaching equips them to defend the Doctrine and the flock.