Sermon on the mount part 2:  Set Your Eyes on the Goodness of God to give you the Kingdom; What does it mean to let your light shine

Summarize last week.  

Summary of last week is blessed are those who eyes are set on the equitable deed and character of God towards them.  Blessed are those who rest in God's righteousness towards them.  

Mat 5:13  Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Mat 5:14  Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Mat 5:15  Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Mat 5:16  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Jesus tells these guys they were supposed to be the salt of the earth but they had lost their flavor.  They were a city on a hill but light was not shining out of them so that it could be seen.  

We get to the part of the verse that talks about our good works being seen & we think it points to us producing the fruit of the Spirit.  We immediately interpret the good works as the good fruit we must now bring forth.  But, the good works Jesus is referring to is everything he just said in the previous verses.  

Jesus just described the good works when he said blessed are the poor in spirit; blessed are they that mourn; blessed are the meek; blessed are they who hunger & thirst after God's righteousness to give them the Kingdom and manifest His life in them as a gift free from their works.  

There is some good works that can result in light shining out of you.  The good works that results in light shining out of you is to be poor in spirit; to mourn; to be meek; to hunger and thirst after righteousness; to be filled with God's mercy towards you; to rejoice in what God has done to set man at one again with Himself and His life in the person of Jesus.  

The way you let your light shine is to say in your heart that you do not possess the ability to bring forth light in yourself, and you rest in God and His good work to manifest life and light in you.  

Jesus said neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick so it can give light to the whole house.  

Just like Jesus said a man Lights the candle.  God is the one who causes the light to shine in you.  You do not say I must now go and make my light shine.  The candle that shines the light does not light itself but has someone that lights it.  It is the same with us.  We can not bring forth light in ourselves, only God can manifest light in us.

God has come in Jesus to influence your heart to look to Him and His ability to bring forth life and light in you.  So That He can shine His light in you and people can see your good work of resting in Him, and they can be influenced unto the same good work of resting in God and His ability to make manifest life and light in them.  

Explain can see what the good work is & how that allows light to shine by looking at Jesus on the cross.  

We can see what the good work is and how that causes the light to shine by looking at Jesus on the cross. 

Jesus embodied everything it means to be poor in spirit; to mourn; to be meek; to hunger and thirst after God's righteousness; to be filled with God's mercy towards him while he hung on the cross.  And because he rested in the Father and the Father's promise to raise him up and cloth him with life instead of looking to the flesh the love of God manifested out of him towards the world.  Because he did not look to what he could do in his flesh to have life but He looked to the Father.  He loved those that were against him; he blessed those who were cursing him; he prayed for those who were persecuting him.  

Jesus' light shined on the cross & the good works he did was He did not try to take the Kingdom by force but he rested in God to give it to him by promise while he hung on the cross dying.  He looked to the Father & the Father's righteousness to manifest life in him and give him the kingdom instead of looking to the strength of the flesh.   And because of that He rested on the cross and layed down his life for the world.  

Jesus rested in the beauty of the Father's thoughts and intentions towards him.  He rested in the Promise of the Father to give him the Kingdom as a gift and he rested in the Father's ability to do what he promised.  He rested in the equitable deed and character of the Father towards him to raise him up and cloth him with eternal life and make him co heir with the Father in His kingdom.  And because of that he rested on the cross unto his death instead of trying to give himself life and that was the manifestation of him loving us.  His light shined.  

Luk 23:47  Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.

The centurion who was standing at the cross when Jesus cried out Father into your hands I commit my spirit saw the good works of Jesus and said truly this is a righteous man and glorified God.  He saw the good works of Jesus to rest in the Father and the Father's ability to preserve his life from death and give him life and it caused him to glorify God. 

When we see the love of God manifesting in Jesus on the cross and we see God cloth Jesus in life and gave him the kingdom in the resurrection and ascension.  And we see the good work of Jesus is that he rested in the Father.  He glorified the Father as the one that would raise him up and cloth him with life and give him the Kingdom.  

What happens is that we find the same good work that was born in Jesus born in us.  We find ourselves glorifying God as the only one who can manifest life in us.  We find ourselves glorifying God as the only one who can give us the Kingdom; we rest from our works to produce life in ourselves and we rest in the promise of God to manifest life in us.  And our eyes become fixed on what God has said and done in Jesus.  

Mat 5:17  Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Mat 5:19  Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:20  For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Verse 17 Not come to destroy but to fulfill

The word fulfill here doesnt just mean to complete or to finish something.  It means to bring a thing to light or to make something manifest for what it actually is.  It means to make one realize what a thing is or to bring a thing to realization.  

John said in his gospel that no one had seen the Father but Jesus and that Jesus had brought him out where He could be seen for who He is.  He said Jesus has come and interpreted the Father for all of us.  In the same way no one had seen what the law and the prophets were saying but Jesus and Jesus came to bring the words there out where we could see them for what they are.  Jesus came to interpret the law and the prophets for all of us.  

The law and the prophets are the word of the Father.  In the same way no one had seen the Father no one had really heard His word.  Jesus came to bring the Father's Word out where it could be seen for what it was.  He came to interpret what the Father had been saying all along in the law and the prophets. 

Jesus came speaking the spirit of the law to a people who had been busy with the letter of the law and because of this a lot of the people in Jesus' day thought he was preaching against the law of God.  

But, Jesus says he did not come to destroy the law, or the prophets he came to reveal what the law and the prophets were talking about all along.  He says I've not come to destroy the law and the prophets I have come to reveal and make manifest what the law and the prophets were talking about and pointing to all along.  

I've come to interpret what the law and the prophets were talking about all this time, and guess what they were saying.........    

Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of God.  Blessed are those who say in their hearts they cannot cloth themselves with life by their works.  Blessed are those who cry out to God to be justified and cloth them in eternal life instead of trusting in their works and the strength of the flesh.  Blessed are those who say in their hearts I cannot of myself produce the fruit of God's life and rest in God to give birth to His life in them.  Blessed are those who say in their hearts they cant be exalted and inherit the Kingdom by their good works; or the works of the law; or by the good fruit they can produce.  

Blessed are those guys for they shall inherit the kingdom of God.  That's what the law and the prophets were all the time declaring.  And so Jesus revealed what the law and the prophets were talking about at the beginning of Matthew 5 when he says blessed are the poor in spirit.  So Jesus says think not that I've come to destroy the law and the prophets I've just revealed to you what the law and the prophets were talking about all of the time.  

Isa 2:3  And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Isaiah was prophesying that out of Zion; out of the city of Jerusalem there would go forth Torah, i.e instruction.

In the sermon on the mount The Word of the Lord was coming out of Zion.  In the sermon on the mount Torah was going forth from Jerusalem.   The Word of God was going forth out of Zion to be a light unto our feet and a lamp unto our way to inherit the Kingdom of God and eternal life.  Jesus is the aleph and the tav.  He is the alpha and the omega.  He is the beginning and the end of the instruction of God.  

In John 8 Jesus stood up & declared himself to be the light of the world.  It was the last day of the great feast when he said that.  The Jewish people would have been celebrating the Torah as the light unto their feet & lamp unto their way on the day that Jesus stood up & declared himself to be the light unto their feet and the lamp unto their way.  He was saying I am the instruction of God all the law and the prophets spoke of.  I am the light that will guide you into the kingdom of God & eternal life.  I am the Torah; I am the instruction of God.  

The Ten Commandments; law of Moses did not come out of Zion or Jerusalem.  It came out of mt Sinai.  

If you look back to the beginning of Matthew 5 Jesus went up into a mountain and it says the disciples followed him up there and he began to teach them.  Jesus is the law giver Isaiah prophesied of.  The Word made flesh in Jesus is the instruction Isaiah said would go forth from Jerusalem; from Zion.  

In the sermon on the mount Jesus was teaching them his ways, and his ways was that he is poor in spirit; he mourned; he is meek; he hungered and thirsted after God's righteousness towards him.  He rested in the goodness and kindness of the Father towards him to manifest life in him and give him the Kingdom as a gift.  

Verse 18    For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

What law is Jesus talking about here?  He isnt talking about the law of Moses.  He isnt talking about the Ten Commandments.  The law he is talking about here is the teaching and instruction he just gave at the beginning of Matthew 5.  

Jesus is saying all the things I just said to you about blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.  Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted.  Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.   

Not one thing I just said shall pass away til the heaven and earth shall pass away.  Until this heaven and this earth pass away.  Until the sea that is currently separating heaven and earth be removed and no longer exist and heaven and earth become one and the kingdom of God cloth upon our physical bodies and the physical creation with glory and immortality this saying will not pass away until all that stuff has come to pass.   

This saying of how a person can be made a partaker of eternal life and inherit the kingdom of God and the earth will not pass away until you inherit the kingdom of God in your physical body and you inherit an earth where righteousness dwells and darkness has been removed.  

Not one jot or tittle of the law I just gave will pass away til all comes to pass.  Not one jot or one tittle of what I just said will pass away til those who mourn inherit the new heaven and the new earth; til those who are poor in spirit inherit the kingdom of God in a glorified body and a glorified creation. 

Verse 19 whosoever shall break one of these least commandments and teach men so shall be least in the kingdom of heaven, and whosoever shall do and teach them the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven

Again when Jesus talks about commandments here He isnt talking about the law of Moses or the Ten Commandments written on stone.  He is talking about what he said in the beginning of the chapter.  

He's saying whosoever shall not believe on the Spirit of grace for life and teach others not to believe on the spirit of grace for life they shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven.  And whosoever shall teach men to believe on the Spirit of grace for life and believe on the Spirit of grace for life is greatest in the kingdom.  

Greatest and least is referring to teachers of the oracles of God.  

He is saying the one you see teach what I just taught and do what I just taught is the great rabbi.  He is saying the one who teaches to believe on the Spirit of grace for life and not your works and also does that is the great prophet.  

Jesus is revealing himself to be the law giver and not the Pharisees.  He is revealing his doctrine to be the teaching and instruction of God and not the doctrine of the Pharisees.  

Jesus is trying to get everyone to turn away from the teaching of the Pharisees that taught people to seek the righteousness they could bring forth through the works of the law; through the strength of the flesh as the foundation from where they could inherit the kingdom of God and to instead seek God and His righteousness to give them the Kingdom as a gift. 

Explain Jesus did and taught each one of the things listed in the previous verses.  We can see each one of the things listed in the previous verses that Jesus taught manifested in him on the cross.  

For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

When Jesus says unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and pharisees you will not partake of the Kingdom of heaven.  He's not saying unless the fruit you can produce is better than the fruit the pharisees are producing you won't enter the kingdom of heaven.  

He is talking about what a person seeks as the thing that can cause them to partake of the Kingdom of heaven and eternal life. 

Jesus is saying there is something the pharisees seek as that which can give them the Kingdom of God and eternal life.  Unless the thing you seek is greater than what the pharisees are seeking you will not inherit eternal life or the kingdom of God.  Because the thing the pharisees are seeking can't give eternal life or the Kingdom of God.  The thing the pharisees are seeking can't get er done.  

There is something the pharisees are pursuing as their ability to inherit the kingdom of heaven; inherit the earth; be called the Sons/Daughters of God; be filled with life.  Jesus says unless the thing you seek to inherit those things possesses a greater ability than what the pharisees are seeking you will not partake of the Kingdom of heaven. 

The scribes and pharisees had their doctrine which said the way to inherit the kingdom of heaven; to inherit the earth; and to be called the Sons of God is through the works of the law.  They were seeking the good fruit they could produce through the strength of the flesh; through the works of the law as the way they would have the Kingdom of heaven.  

They looked at the commandments carnally and they looked at their ability to do the works of the law and they said this is the way to gain the kingdom of heaven; this is the way to inherit the earth; this is the way to be called the Sons of God; this is the way to have eternal life.  

The righteousness of the scribes and pharisees speaks of the good they can bring forth through the works of the law.  It speaks of the good fruit they can bring forth through the strength of the flesh.  It speaks of the good life they can bring forth by performing the works of the law.  And then looking to the good they can bring forth by their works as that which will give them the kingdom of heaven and cause them to be called the Sons of God and inherit the earth.   

Jesus says the thing the pharisees are seeking can't get it done so unless the thing you are seeking to inherit the kingdom is greater than what they are seeking you can't enter into the kingdom.

Jesus is preaching the manifold wisdom of God here.  He is preaching a word that can persuade them they cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven by the good fruit they can get to manifest in their lives.  He is preaching a word to persuade them they cannot inherit the earth and be called the Sons of God through the works of the law.  And he is also pointing them to the righteousness that can cause them to inherit the kingdom of heaven. 

When Jesus begins to say You have heard of old(the pharisees doctrine) thou shalt not commit adultery.  But, I say that anyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.  

You have heard it said an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth but I say whosoever shall smite you on your right cheek turn to him the other also.  

You have heard it said to love your neighbors and hate your enemy but I say unto you love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.  

Be ye perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect.  

Jesus is describing God's righteousness here

He is comparing the righteousness of the Pharisees with God's righteousness.

Really what Jesus is doing is he is comparing the strength of the Pharisees to attain to eternal life and the kingdom of God with the strength of God to give you the Kingdom and eternal life as a gift. 

He is preaching a word that can persuade them they are poor in spirit; that can persuade them to mourn; that can bring forth meekness in them; that can set their eyes on God's righteousness and not their own.

When Jesus starts describing the righteousness of God he is preaching a word to bring forth something in their hearts where they see their inability to cloth themselves with the fruit of God's life and their inability to gain the kingdom of heaven by the strength of the flesh so they would mourn and cry out to God in the midst of their inability and weakness; so they would look unto God and His righteous act to cloth them with life and give them the kingdom free from their works.  He is trying to bring forth something in their hearts where they seek God and His righteousness towards them to give them the Kingdom and manifest His life in them.

Jesus is not teaching them they must perform the righteousness of God to inherit the Kingdom.  You can't do the life of God.  You can't perform the life of God.  

You cant look at the fruit the life of God produces and then go and perform it.  Paul said maybe for a righteous man a person might lay down their life, but who can lay down their life for someone who hates them and wants to kill them.  Who can bless those who persecute them.  Who when they are slapped across the face can turn the other cheek.  Who when they are being nailed to a cross can pray for the people nailing them to the cross?  Only the life of God dwelling in human flesh on account of God and His doing can do that.

You cant say Father forgive them for they know not what they do as they are nailing you to a cross by your desire to do it; or your willpower to do it because thats what you see God doing.  That kind of life can only be born in a person by God giving birth to it in them.  It can never come forth by way of an external order telling a person they must do that.  

When thinking about whether you think you can perform the life of God, think of it this way.  Do you think you can love Isis?  Do you think you can bless Isis.  Do you think you could give your coat to Isis.....

I'm not going to read them all but what Jesus is doing there is he is describing the righteousness the pharisees were trusting in to gain the kingdom of heaven and he is describing the righteousness of God.  He is saying the doctrine of the pharisees says seek this righteousness to have the Kingdom of heaven but I say seek God and His righteousness towards you to inherit the kingdom of Heaven.  

We read all that heavy stuff and it sounds heavy to us because we read it as if this is the fruit God demands that we produce for Him to accept us into the kingdom.  We read it as if this is the fruit God expects us to produce and we take a heavy burden onto ourselves.

But, we never consider all those things in light of what Jesus said in Matthew 6:33

Mat 6:33  says But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness.  

The righteousness of God is defined in Him being good to sinners.  It is defined in Him coming as the Father of mankind to save them from what is killing them and to cloth them with His eternal life.

Seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness means God has a pure heart towards you, and because of the beauty of His thoughts for you He is going to do something to manifest His life in you and make you a coheir with Him in His kingdom apart from your works.  

Seeking the kingdom of God is to Set your eyes on the good work God has done in Jesus to cloth you in eternal life because He loves you.  

Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness=the way you seek the kingdom of God is by seeking God's righteousness to give you the Kingdom as a gift free from your works.   

Jesus culminates everything he said in the previous 2 chapters by saying the way you seek the kingdom of God is by seeking His righteousness towards you.  The way you seek the Kingdom of God is by setting your eyes on the equitable deed and character of God towards you.  It is by setting your eyes on the goodness and kindness of God towards you.  The way you seek the kingdom of God is by setting your eyes on the good work of God to give you the Kingdom as a gift.  

Which is exactly what the first several verses are declaring when Jesus said blessed are the poor in spirit.  Blessed are those that mourn.  Blessed are the meek.  Blessed are those whose eyes or set on Gods righteousness towards them.  

Moreover.  In light of everything I just said in the previous 2 chapters.  Lest you think I was just telling you that you will have the Kingdom by loving your enemies.  Let me wrap it up by telling you what I am saying here.  You seek the kingdom of God by seeking the righteousness of God.  You seek the kingdom of God not by producing the fruit of God's life.  You seek the kingdom of God by seeking the equitable deed of God to give you the Kingdom as a free gift in Christ & by seeking the beauty of His thoughts for you in that He wanted to seat you at His right hand & make you a co-heir with Christ & with Himself.

Explain and all these things will be added to you

All what things?  All the things he just mentioned in the last 2 chapters.  

All these things will be added to you:  all the things it said in the previous two chapters.  

You will inherit the kingdom of heaven; you will be comforted; you will inherit the earth; you will be filled with the life of God; you will experience God's mercy; you will be called the Sons & Daughters of God

we can even take it a step farther.  All these things will be added to you.  

Set your eyes on the beauty of God's thoughts and intentions towards you and the good work of what He has done in Jesus to cloth you in His light and His eternal life & it will bring forth a poor spirit in you; it will bring forth mourning in you; it will bring forth meekness in you.  It will cause you to hunger and thirst after God's righteousness.  It will fill you with His mercy.  

Jesus started this verse by saying unless the righteousness you seek to give you the kingdom exceeds the righteousness the pharisees are seeking you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.  

Then look what Jesus does.  He points to a righteousness that exceeds the righteousness of the Pharisees.  He points to Gods righteousness towards mankind and tells us to seek Gods righteousness towards us and the kingdom will be added to us. 

We see the righteousness of God; we see the equitable deed and character of God towards us; we see the good work of God towards us in the birth, the death, the resurrection, the ascension of Jesus.  

We see Jesus on the cross with our sin and our death upon him.  We see those he came to save crucifying him; mocking him; persecuting him; devouring him with their words.  We see God's righteousness towards us manifest in Jesus preferring our lives over his own.  Laying down His life in order to save ours.  We see Jesus as God loving us even while we set ourselves up as his enemy.   We see Jesus as God blessing us even as we were cursing him.  We see Jesus as God doing good to us even while we were hating him by taking our sin and our death upon himself.  We see Jesus as God praying  for our forgiveness even as we were persecuting him and crucifying him.  

And because of God's righteousness manifesting through Jesus towards us God died away our sin and our death at the cross and left it in the grave.  He reconciled mankind back to Himself and His life when He raised Jesus from the dead and sat Jesus at His right as the last Adam.  And He exhorts us to set our eyes on His righteous act towards us so we can inherit the kingdom of heaven. 

We see the righteousness of God; we see the good work of God and character of God towards us to give us the Kingdom in Jesus.  We see the righteous act of God towards us to give us the kingdom of heaven as a free gift in the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus.  

And we see that God's righteousness to give us the Kingdom far exceeds the righteousness of the pharisees to gain the Kingdom by their works.  We see God's ability to give us the Kingdom as a gift exceeds the ability of the flesh to attain to the kingdom.  

So we no longer seek the Kingdom by the good fruit we can produce and get to manifest.  But, our treasure is the Father of Lights in Heaven and what He has done for us because He loves us.  

We could not deliver ourselves from the grave we cannot cloth ourselves with light and life so unless we seek a righteousness that is greater than what we can bring forth how can we inherit the kingdom.  How can we inherit the glory and immortality of God in our flesh?  
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Doctrine of the pharisees says seek this righteousness to have the kingdom of God but i say seek this ......

Jesus is describing what eternal life looks like when it is manifested.  He is describing what the life of God looks like so they can see the righteousness that is of the law 

Do not seek the righteousness of the Pharisees as the foundation from where you can be a partaker of the kingdom of God but seek the righteousness of God; seek the equitable deed & character of God to give you the Kingdom & manifest His life in you free from your works

He goes to demonstrating how they can know they cannot attain to the Kingdom; have eternal life through the righteousness they can bring forth by their works.  

At part where get into describing life of God somewhere connect to this life that comes forth from God is born from Him possessing an endless life.  A life that is without beginning and end.  A life that is not subject to what people can do to it or what people can say about Him or what can happen to him.  A life that that is not at the mercy of the tribulation that can come against it in the world.  But, a life that has overcome the death and corruption in the world.  This life does not possess the ability believe that it lacks anything as it pertains to having life and godliness.  and because of that this life shows itself forth in a certain way that is described in the beatitudes.  

Jesus is describing the life of God.  He is describing what comes forth in a person should they be animated with eternal life.  He is talking about the fruit that comes forth in a person who is persuaded that the life they possess is incorruptible.  He is talking about the fruit that manifests in a person should their heart be persuaded the life they possess in this mortal body is the same life that raised Jesus from the dead.  

All these things will be added part:  we can even take it a step farther.  All these things will be added to you.  Seek the kingdom of God seeking the righteousness of God to give you the kingdom as s gift by promise & it will bring forth a poor spirit in you; it will bring forth mourning in you; it will bring forth meekness; etc...  seek the equitable deed and character of God to give you the kingdom by promise free from your works.  See God and His ability to manifest the kingdom in you free from your works and all these things will be added to you; and you will find yourself poor in spirit; you will mourn; you will be meek; etc ....

Jesus is trying to get them to turn away from he doctrine of the pharisees to inherit the kingdom of God.  He goes about showing them that the doctrine of the Pharisees can never give them eternal life are partakers of kingdom of God.  

****Jesus comes as the teaching and instruction of God in the flesh to influence the hearts of people to turn away from trusting in the righteousness they can produce; the righteousness that comes from the works of the law; the righteousness that comes from the strength of the flesh.  And to rest in God and His righteousness to manifest life in them.  He is exhorting them to rest in the equitable deed and character of God towards them to give them the Kingdom as a gift.*****

****Jesus tells these guys they were supposed to be the salt of the earth but they lost their flavor.  The reason he says they lost their flavor is because they were not poor in spirit; they had not mourned; they were not meek and pure of heart.  They weren't hungering & thirsting after God's righteousness to given them the kingdom as a gift free from their works.  They weren't hungering & thirsting after the good work of God to give them the Kingdom and eternal life as a free gift.

They had all gone astray.  Their mouths were full of death; their tongues dripped with the doctrine of the serpent.  They trusted in the righteousness that comes from the strength of the flesh; the works of the law to gain the kingdom instead of resting in the good work of God to give them the Kingdom as a free gift.******

*****Jesus said they were the salt of the earth and they lost their flavor.  He said they lost their taste because they were not poor in spirit; they were not meek; they did not mourn; they were not seeking God and His equitable deed and character towards them.  Jesus was trying to season them with flavor by preaching a word that would cause them to rest from their works to try and gain the kingdom of heaven and the blessing of God and they would go to rest in the work of God to give them the  kingdom as a gift.*****

****Jesus comes teaching a different doctrine that said the way to inherit the kingdom of heaven; to inherit the earth, to be called the Sons of God is through the equitable deed and character of God to give you those things by promise and not by your works.  Jesus comes teaching a doctrine that said the way to inherit the kingdom of heaven is by setting your eyes on the good work of God to give you the Kingdom as a gift.  Jesus comes along saying the only way you can partake of the Kingdom of heaven is if you can receive it as a gift by believing on what God has done to give it to you.******