Matthew 5-7 contains the longest of Jesus’ collected teachings. Within it are some of the most well-known and quoted passages not just from Jesus’ life, or the bible, but in all of religious history. Not only is it the most well-known and quoted, but it is often the most misunderstood. In the book of Matthew, Jesus’ ministry begins with him preaching the “good news (or the gospel) of the kingdom.” It is here in the Sermon on the Mount that Jesus describes what life in this kingdom is like, how those who are a part of this kingdom of heaven should and can live. Jesus challenges our fundamental assumptions of happiness, righteousness, love, anger, obedience, and so much more. By this Jesus describes a kingdom in which true happiness, true righteousness, true obedience, true love can be a reality for us, on earth “As it is in Heaven.”

Within all of us is a deep longing for happiness. Behind everything we do, every choice we make, there is a hope and a desire that it will ultimately make us happy. Our greatest goal and desire is true happiness and satisfaction. Jesus begins the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5:1-16, by describing that those who are in this kingdom of God are those who will be truly and eternally happy, or “blessed.” In this message, Brent Cummings, our Young Adults pastor, walks us through what Jesus describes true happiness looks like, and what effect this true happiness will have on the world. 

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