Blessed Be The Poor In Spirit For Theirs Is The Kingdom Of God

Blessed are the Poor in Spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of God

 January 28,2018

 

Blessed….

This word was used to express a quality that was attributed to the Greek gods... 

 

1. An almost unbelievable state of__________.

 

2. Denote someone or something that was___

__________, that neither needs nor is dependent on the outside world for its sustenance.

 

The Christian is to be God-sufficient and not _______________conditioned....

If a man wants to be truly fulfilled, to find real Joy, to enjoy true blessedness, then he must abandon conventional earthly thinking about what it means to be truly blessed.

 

The spiritual pre-requisite: being ________ in Spirit

 

Two different Greek terms that describe the concept of poverty.

 

One is that of a person who is poor, but has_____ ______.  Example Luke 21:2....

 

The second term is used to describe the _______ _____of an individual who has no resources whatsoever..  Example Luke 16:19

 

It is this second Greek term that Jesus uses here in this first Beatitude: “blessed are the spiritually destitute.”

 

In the Old Testament, the term poverty was closely associated with genuine ________ before God. 

 

Humility is the simple prerequisite that functions as the door of all of the beatitudes !

 

The promise...

First, participation in God’s kingdom is ________________to true happiness. 

Second, kingdom participation is ______________for those who become “Poor in Spirit.”

Third, the kingdom of heaven is a _______

________to all who are poor in spirit.