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Jesus was certainly anything but a go-with-the-flow person. He taught and modeled an against-the-flow lifestyle. His teaching included concepts such as: If you want to be great, SERVE others. If you want to be rich, GIVE more away. If you want to be known for love, LOVE your enemies. But perhaps His most countercultural teaching was: If you want to be truly happy, you have to turn around and move UPSTREAM toward God, the true source of life.

This month Gene Appel, the Senior Pastor with East Side Christian Church with multiple campuses in Southern California, is teaching from Jesus’ famous Sermon on the Mount. The series is called Upstream and today’s message unpacks what Jesus meant by Blessed are the Humble and Hungry.