From the Series “Sermon on the Mount.” What is the good life? The blessed life? The happy life? The life of meaning, depth, and purpose? What is that like, and who gets it? Is it the one who does everything right always? The disciplined and hardworking? Jesus steps into the middle of humanity and defines who receives God's blessing in an ironic, counterintuitive, upside-down, paradoxical way that shocks hearers then and now.