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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Thursday, October 11th, 2018. This week on the Catholic Sprouts

podcast, we have been talking about Jesus Christ. We have been trying to understand him and his nature.

On Monday, we talked about how Jesus is the absolute center of everything that we

believe and practice in our Catholic faith. Tuesday, we talked about how Jesus was fully God, how he

existed at the beginning of time and exists now because he is God. Yesterday we talked about how he's not only God,

but he was also fully human while he lived on this earth and how we experienced nearly every

single thing that we experienced as humans. Today we're going to talk about what Jesus did while he was on this earth.

We are going to talk about his mission. Now, to understand a lot of the things that Jesus preached,

we also need to understand what the Jewish people believed when Jesus walked onto the scene.

Now, the fundamental thing that Jesus preached was the

coming of God's kingdom. The Jewish people at the time had been waiting and looking for the

coming of God's kingdom, but they had some wrong ideas about what this meant. First of all, they thought it was a place. They also thought

that the Messiah would come and he would be a warrior king, almost like King David, and that he would

battle their enemies. They are oppressors. Because remember, at the time, the Jews were occupied, mean they were

controlled and governed and pushed around by the Roman Empire. So they thought that the Messiah

would come as an emperor king and throw their oppressors over, defeat them, and establish his kingdom on earth through them.

They also thought that the kingdom of God was not open to everyone. They thought that people who

were sinners, especially well-known public sinners, like tax collectors, that they would not be welcome in the

kingdom of God. They also believed the people who were foreign, people who were not part of the

Jewish nation, would not be welcome in the kingdom of God. Well, Jesus showed up on the scene and after

his baptism by John the Baptist in the Jordan, his mission on earth began. He began to preach,

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