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Paradox (Week 2)
Jun 14, 2026 • Brad Brenner
This message explains how Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the Mount turns the world’s values upside down, especially through the beatitude “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” It emphasizes that recognizing our spiritual poverty—our inability to save ourselves—is the doorway into the Kingdom of Heaven, which begins now as a spiritual kingdom ruled by Christ in our hearts. The sermon calls listeners to humble surrender to Jesus as King, to live by His values rather than the world’s, and to remember through practices like baptism and communion that they belong to His eternal kingdom.
