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Introduction —
When things take a dark turn.
“A young Cincinnati Bengals and University of Cincinnati Bearcats fan wrote a great letter to Kevin Huber, the punter who broke his jaw on a controversial hit last week.
In adorable fashion, the boy tells Huber that he's his favorite player and he hopes he feels better.
Then things take a dark turn.”
Dear Kevin,
I hope you feel better soon.
I am mad at the Steelers because you are my #1 player.
I am 7 years old and I love the Bengals and the Bearcats.
I know you played for the Bengals and the Bearcats and I love the teams.
I hope that Steeler player loses his house and has to live in his car.
Get well soon, Nicholas.”
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This doesn’t end the way we expected it to.
Neither do the beatitudes.
This was the new Moses.
Things were going well.
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The Promised Result of a Righteous Life
In sum, I define “righteousness” in Matthew as whole-person behavior that accords with God’s nature, will, and coming kingdom.
The “righteous” person, according to Matthew, is the one who follows Jesus in this way of being in the world.
The righteous person is the whole/ teleios person (5: 48) who does not only do the will of God externally but, most importantly, from the heart.
This is both radically continuous with the ethics of the Jewish Scriptures and radically in conflict with Jesus’s interlocutors, the Pharisees.
(Pennington, Jonathan T..
The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing: A Theological Commentary (p.
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