In Matthew 5:1-12, we find a paradox known as the Beatitudes, the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. And in reading them today, they seem illogical and out of touch with real life. Consider these questions:
How can you be blessed when you’re in mourning?
How is being poor in spirit a good thing?
In fact, how is being poor ever a good thing?
And how can you possibly call the meek blessed?
I always thought the strong were the ones who had it all together. Is that not true anymore?
But these teachings of Jesus are not about life in the now, but about life in His Kingdom. They speak of the realities of living with Him in the Kingdom of Heaven. And, by the way, they’re not a paradox. They’re realities of life that transcend our feeble existence on earth. They are, as Paul Harvey would say, “the rest of the story.”
Want to know more about living in His Kingdom? Then keep listening.
The following is a study on Matthew 5:3.
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