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Isaiah Nine, the First Servant Song
In Matthew, Jesus is announcing that god king. He's the one bringing this reality into being. And then matthew neatly gives us the whole unpacking of what it looks like to live as if god, as if god really is king. This is a huge moral ogenda that i'm going to have to take on board. But for me, the most exciting thing about that is in the beatitudes at the beginning, when for years i used to read them as simply, o my goodness, here are all the different characteristics which i, as a disciple of of jesus, ought to be exhibiting. I've come to read it not as, here are the sort of