Jesus calls and empowers his disciples to a greater righteousness than the righteousness of the Scribes and the Pharisees.

Living in line with the beatitudes and bearing witness to the world of Jesus's kingdom is the good life.

Jesus traveled into darkness to proclaim the gospel of the Kingdom, through word and deed, gather His disciples, and  inaugurate the Church.

Jesus is the true and better Israel who was obedient where we failed. We overcome temptation by resting in and living out of our adoption into God's family.

We should identify with Jesus because he first identified with us.

God reveals the end of the story so that we can be faithful to Him in the middle of it.

God promises to end our separation from God through the work of Jesus.

God prepares his people to be faithful to him in the present by telling them the future.

The Son of Man rules and the kingdoms of this world do not.

Faithfulness to God is not decided in the moment, it's something you prepare for.