Title: poor man
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Bible: [Matthew 5:3]
Subject: [The Poor Man]
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The three great works of Jesus are teaching, preaching, and healing. From today, we are going to start expounding on the 8 blessings, the treasure in the treasure, which many people especially wanted to know about in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. will be
1. The difference between what we think of blessings and what the Bible says about blessings!
We consider honor, health, money, having many descendants, ..., etc. as good fortune.
The Bible is trying to tell the eight blessings (the kingdom of heaven) taught through Matthew 5:3-10.
2. Blessed are the poor in spirit
Poor people can be broadly classified into two categories. Rather than refer to those who live in the world and live poorly, those who have no choice but to skip meals can be called poor people. Because there is no end to human greed.
“(2 Samuel 12:4) A certain passerby came to the rich man, and the rich man spared his sheep and cattle, and did not slaughter it for the passerby who came to him, but took the poor man’s lamb and slaughtered it for the man who came to him.”
When David sent his loyal servant Uriah to the battlefield to die, and then took his wife as his wife, Nathan the prophet used the words to rebuke David, a passage accusing anyone that there is no limit to greed. it can be found that
Are you poor in spirit? It shows that we long for the word of God and that we are poor toward God. That is, it must be interpreted as spiritual.
The most important Hebrew word for 'anab' (poor) is that 'poor people' can only rely on God (Psalm 37:14;40:17;69:29; Proverbs 16:19). Moreover, Isaiah 61:1 says that the coming Messiah will come for the poor, so it can be inferred that the characteristics of the poor go beyond the simple material deprivation (Luke 4:18). In this sense, we can see that being poor in spirit is not just about lack of courage or material need. It is a candid confession of one's own spiritual breakdown and a confession that man standing before God is worthless and has no choice but to rely on God alone (Psalm 69:29; 70:5; 74:21; Isaiah 61: 1; Zephaniah 3:12).
And repent of their sins (Psalm 34:6, 18; 51:17; Isaiah 66:2).
3. Heaven is theirs
The writer of Matthew calls the kingdom ruled by the Messiah "Heaven" (He Basileia ton Uranon). In other words, the kingdom of heaven belongs to the poor, those who receive the mercy of God, enjoy the Messiah's reign, and receive the blessings He gives. Heaven is not a reward or reward for human effort, but a gift from God's mercy to the 'poor in spirit'. The fact that both the first and last blessings (verse 10) in Matthew's Gospel are blessings for the kingdom of heaven implies that all of them are related to the kingdom of heaven.
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We need a general revision of the concepts of blessing that we have been thinking about. When people who believe in Jesus evangelize, they say, “If you believe in Jesus, you will be blessed!” However, the Bible says that the concept of ‘blessing’ is about the kingdom of heaven.
If that is the case, it is not applicable to us living today and we need to think about whether we are talking about a heaven that can only be enjoyed after death! If it is a heaven that can only be enjoyed after death, “Isn’t it enough to believe right before you die?”
The Bible says: The kingdom of heaven is that all those who repent and become Jesus' children now possess and enjoy the kingdom of heaven.
The poet says that the word of God is sweeter than honey.
(Psalm 19:10) They shall be desired more than gold, that is, much fine gold, and sweeter than honey and honeycomb.
(Proverbs 24:13) My son, eat honey, for this is good; eat honey from the honeycomb, and it is in your mouth.
The more we get to know God's Word, the more we experience God's abundant grace. We earnestly bless and pray that all of us who believe in God's word will long for God's word, become listeners, see and read, and live as “blessed ones” (Revelation 1:3).