Starting from Jesus' teaching in Mark 10 that we should "sell what [we] have," we discussed the central tenet of Jesus’ teaching in the Gospels: that our own righteousness must be laid aside, so that we might put our trust solely in God. Fr Aaron referenced a passage from Philippians where St. Paul, in very strong terms, tells us that we are to despise our own righteousness. To put it another way, every Christian must sell their own righteousness and accept that Christ alone is righteous, and that our salvation, our entrance into eternal life, comes through putting our trust in Him and His teachings, which is summed up in taking care of the (spiritually and materially) poor. Christ teaches us in simple and direct language here that, “No one is good but God alone.”