The Kingdom comes in the Presence of the Spirit of God. IT WAS HIS PRESENCE those listening to Jesus give the Sermon on the Mount detected, and it was His Presence they longed for. For them it didn’t matter if He was doing miracles or just giving another sermon, they just had to be where He was. Hunger humbles. Hunger for God brings about the ultimate humility. And He exalted them at the proper time (see 1 Peter 5:6) with a taste of His dominion. The Sermon on the Mount is a treatise on the Kingdom. In it, Jesus reveals the attitudes that help His followers to access His unseen world. As citizens of heaven, these attitudes are formed in us that we might fully apprehend all that His Kingdom has available. The Beatitudes are actually the “lenses” that the Kingdom is seen through. Repentance involves taking on the mind of Christ revealed in these verses. He could have put it this way: This is how the repentant mind looks.