Our need, therefore, is to better understand Jesus and His words. The rest of Jesus' sermon deals with the second question, and we will be looking at it over the next few weeks. As I said earlier, this is a question that people have been asking for centuries. Several answers have been proposed by competing philosophies of life, but it really all boils down to two. This view of the good life says that what you see is what you get.
Reality is confined to what the five senses can perceive.
This is all there is. So, let's keep dancing. Go for the gold. Grab all the gusto. Look out for numero uno.