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• hold firmly to what’s of first importance
• sinking CASS secondary school required re-anchoring
• beware roots of wickedness undermining foundation
• don’t follow the way of this people
• Beatitudes contrast with usual thinking
• wrong to even be angry, look lustfully, hate enemy,
take revenge
• can’t serve God and money; put others first, don’t
follow the crowd
• requires God’s grace and power to carry out His will
• not about saying “Lord, Lord” but doing God’s
will
• focus on programs / activities can overlook knowing
Christ
• adversity and divine judgment test strength of
construction
• final judgment according to what each person has
done
• are we actually putting Jesus’ words into practice?
• Jesus’ authority very different from sermons of
scholar-citing rabbis
• Jesus “Author of life” invested with “all authority”
• Japanese Christian suffered for harboring downed
enemy fliers
• authority / credibility of one hanging on a cross