Standing on Mountains

The key takeaway from this little book is to highlight just how important Matthew 3 and 4 are to understanding the entire remainder of God’s Word; not to wander around for almost 40 years (as yours truly did) “kinda” getting it, but not quite. Especially when God so strategically placed this Bible blueprint in what, once seen, is an obvious and concise (not to be missed!) 100-word portrayal. This will encourage and help the authentic Christian in reading God’s Word, to develop a discipline for doing so and, in Jesus’ Words, not think it is possible to “. . . live by bread alone,” versus living “by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” as Jesus says is required of a truly alive and an authentic Christian.

  Secondarily, we highlight 20 or so additional Mountain verses and passages that likewise will help to fill in a developing mosaic of God’s Word to help us to better see, in a sample of key verses, how (again) everything in God’s Word flows from Jesus’ goal for Himself coming to earth to fulfill all Righteousness for us and our accepting this offered gift of His Righteousness (making it our own) as our goal for our earthly lives ~ in other words, to successfully build on our Justification (being born again) through Sanctification (an ever-growing Grace-Faith) into ultimate and eternal Glorification at the end of our short earthly lives.

  In short, our objective is to Better understand how to Better understand God’s Word so that, in the final analysis, we are prepared by knowing (so we can live) God’s Truths for our soon-coming Final Life’s Examination that will decide our eternal fates. Ultimately everyone has the personal responsibility to “choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve” ^{Joshua 24:15} and eternally live the consequences, a huge and monumental decision!

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. ^{William Blake}