To be salt and light is all we are called to be. We must preserve our fellow man and be a good example as a light to show them a righteous living. These are the things we are called to do.

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The message about the kingdom begins with John the Baptist. He was the one who began to promote the core gospel message about repentance and the kingdom in the way that Jesus would later preach it. As we look at how John preached and taught we can see how Jesus did come to establish a kingdom, a Church, through his ministry.

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Hope. At the center of the teaching about the kingdom of God or the gospel is a message about hope. The what this is all about reality.

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How do we know the gospel if we do not have a particular religion? Can you be an orphan and still be part of a family? Can you have a relationship alone?

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When we turn to God in repentance, we enter His kingdom. It is not something that happens if we do not change to fit within the family. We must be bound by a covenant and live like a family ruled by God.

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One of the key principles behind the kingdom narrative in the gospel is that it is founded on a covenant or oath that forms the new nation or people that God is forming in the Church.

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As we take some time to really understand the gospel message about the kingdom and see just where the Church or religion is part of that message, we need to understand something about the culture of Jesus. Jesus was not some sterile idea or philosophy that we mold into modern times or comprehend from our own perspective. Jesus was a person who grew up in a culture that influenced him, and that culture is what we find in the Catholic faith as the thing that changes us and brings us into a new family or culture. A family or culture of the gospel kingdom.

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This Sunday is a day in which the Feast of the Presentation takes precedence over the Sunday readings. The reason why is because this particular feast reveals Christ as King and begins the unique gospel message about the kingdom.

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As we review the key things about the gospel message and really comprehend just how central the theme of kingdom is to it, it becomes clear that this message is something that asks us to surrender and become subjects to a King. King Jesus.

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The message of the Kingdom, as the core gospel message ends when Jesus enters Jerusalem. But, it ends that way because it is there he becomes crowned as King. In the passion and death of Christ, we see his coronation. And all we need to know is that his entry into Jerusalem is a symbol of his entering our hearts as either Lord and Savior or Eternal Judge.

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