When you were in school, did you ever have a “backwards” day, when everyone was told to come to school wearing their clothes backwards? In many ways, when Jesus began to describe the value system of the kingdom of heaven, it almost feels like he is describing a “backwards” or “upside-down” kingdom. In this message from Matthew 5:1-16, entitled What Kind of Kingdom Is This? we start out exploring 8 statements, called the Beatitudes, in which Jesus begins to lay out his Kingdom Manifesto governing life in the kingdom of heaven and defining its value system. If we take his statements seriously, our lives will never be the same again!