On Earth as it is in Heaven

Last week's message was a pre-cursor to this week's message. This week we looked at the Beatitudes which is also the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. The Beatitudes can actually be quite confusing as each verse seems contradictory to what we'd put together of a list of what it looks like to be "blessed." The world tells us that you're blessed when you're self reliant, self confident wealthy, and healthy, but when we're able to realize that we are all poor and broken - that is when we can see Jesus and our great need for Him. The Beatitudes clarify Jesus' message: The free availability of God's rule is through reliance on Jesus himself, and Jesus only.