Jesus was not just a rabbi, , but God, teaching of Himself.  What does this mean for us?

Jesus commands His people to love one another as an essential action of being a member of His Church. This mutual love identifies Christians, has a great function in their lives, and is defined by Jesus’ own life.

God delights to show His mercy to undeserving sinners, which He demonstrated in Jesus’ death.

The world discards Jesus, and not by good thinking.  But the world needs Jesus, so Christians spread the news about Him in numbers of ways.

Christians are called “priests” by God, and, like Jesus, our great high priest, we are to love our brothers and sisters in the Church by serving.

Christians are looked down upon by nonbelievers, who should instead be desiring what Christians have from God.

Christians can be rightly confident about their faith in Jesus.

The Spirit of God means belief or disbelief, healing or disrepair.

There's a key component to understanding Jesus:  it's the Old Testament exile to Babylon for the people of God (think:  Daniel) and three things God had promised His people at the time He restored them.  Jesus, in His descending to earth, begins the completion of the end of the exile.  Get this concept in your head, and the Old and New Testaments—and Jesus—will start to fit together and make sense.  A great thing to learn here.

While this life often brings hardship and mourning, if Jesus is your king, you have modified comfort in this life and complete comfort in the life to come.