Jesus On the Mount of Beatitudes

Jesus was a contrarian. He was not grumpy, but He saw things differently than the unrighteous Gentiles and the self-righteous Pharisees. The Mount of the Beatitudes shows how He flipped the blessing upside down. Blessing wasn’t about grabbing, but about giving. His teachings were contrary to the way of the world. “Don’t be like them” (Matthew 6:8). “Them” refers both to the Gentiles and the Pharisees. Seek the righteousness of Christ.