The document discusses key elements of Jesus' teachings about the Kingdom of God. It describes the conditions for entry as repentance, discipleship through responding to Christ's call, and love shown through fellowship and service of others. It also mentions the New Law involves having a filial rather than legalistic attitude guided by the heart rather than external rules. Finally, it states that the Beatitudes portray the face of Christ and essence of Christian living, promising blessings to both the weak and those who embrace Jesus' teachings.

2. • The central image of Christ’s teaching in the
Gospels
• Jesus opened his public ministry by
proclaiming: “The Reign of GOD is at hand!
Reform your lives and believe in the
Gospel.” (Mk 1:15)
• There are conditions for entry into the
Kingdom: Repentance; Discipleship; Love;
New law; Beatitudes.
The Kingdom Of GOD

3. REPENTANCE
• As sinners, we must reform our lives
 the total personal conversion, a change
of life-style and of priorities
• Conversion – the first and perduring condition
for Christian moral living
– it cannot be merely a private, individualistic turning
to GOD, but must entail commitment to “social
transformation”. (cf. PCP II 271-76)

5. DISCIPLESHIP
• PCP II stressed the theme of discipleship:
responding to the Call of Christ, in His
Community, the Church. (cf. PCP II 64-153)
“Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, not
whoever loses his life for my sake and for the sake of
the GOSPEL will save it” (Mk 8:35)
• Personal commitment to being Christ’s disciple is
the key to all Christian morality.

6. Love
•In the Kingdom of God, the life that is love is
not that we have loved God, but that God has
loved us.
•And because God has loved us, we should
share and have that same love with one
another.
•Love that is forgiving, universal, and necessary.

7. Two direct effects of this love:
Fellowship (Koinonia)
Service (Diakonia)
“Love your neighbor as yourself”
This creates a community of fellowship as
we serve one another.

8. NEW LAW
• Before the New Law of the Kingdom, the
Christian cannot have a legalistic attitude, but
must have a filial one.
• It is not external show but the “quality of the
heart” that matters.
“What emerges from within a man, that and
nothing else, is what defiles.” (Mk 7:20)

10. The Beatitudes
•The beatitudes are not a series of commands.
Rather, they picture for us the face of Christ.
•They spotlight the essence of Christian living.
•They announce the blessings and rewards
manifested in the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary
and the saints.

12. The Blessings of the Kingdom are
promised to those who are weak and
weary, as well as to those who take into
heart the teachings of Jesus.
Jesus promises a unique type of
happiness: to inherit GOD’s Kingdom, to
possess the earth, to be a child of GOD,
to receive mercy, to see GOD.