Living out the beatitudes (and the entire Sermon) can never be divorced from a right relationship to Jesus himself. Unlike other preachers and their sermons, the latter of which you may like and the former of which you don’t (or vice versa), here you cannot embrace one without embracing the other. (8) Finally, observe the three-fold structure of the beatitudes. Each beatitude has a congratulation, a cause, and a consequence. a. the congratulation (or, the ascription of blessedness)—How are we to