In times of great financial crisis, people sometimes need and ask for compassion as they struggle to pay bills and feed their loved ones. As he faced the large crowd of people on the mountainside, Jesus sought to teach them about the most basic attributes of human life that is pleasing to God. He said, for example, that humility is essential to belonging to the kingdom of heaven; that grief over sin will allow us to know the comfort of God, and that a spirit of submissiveness to God and others brings about our inheritance of the earth.