Matthew | The Beatitudes

Matthew 5:8 ; Psalms 24:4 ; Jeremiah 4:14 ; Revelation 22:4 Clean my hands, purify my heart, the famous lyrics of Refiner by Maverick, is an endless prayer for every Christian. Psalms 139:23-24 being at the core Search me O God, try me and examine me and see if there is any wicked way in…

Matthew 5:7 “Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.” Job 6:14 “To him who is afflicted, kindness should be shown by his friend….” James 2:15-20 – Matthew 18:20 Like the meek, as earlier seen, it appears as a ridiculous thing to desire. The merciful, yet again, in our crooked and perverse world equals…

Matthew 5:6; Matthew 5:10; Hosea 10:12; Psalms 17:15 It is only logical that Jesus would use hunger and thirst to describe the great need to desire righteousness. When I think of the times I have had hunger pangs and have melted at the display of food, I could cry. The physical hunger (unwilful; fasting not…

I have a question for you : Who was the most humble man (among men) in the Bible? Matthew 5:5; 1 Peter 2:21-23 ; Psalms 37:11; Matthew 11:29 “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.” Matthew 5:5 Meek, is alternatively used with humble in various translations. While in the worldly sense, meek,…

Matthew 5:4 ; 2 Corinthians 7:8-10 ; Psalms 51:14-17 ; Zechariah 12:10 Death, the notification no one can ever be ready for. It’s a burden that weighs heavily on us. Even though there lies a promise ahead of reuniting with the loved ones we lost (because death to the saints is a graduation from one…

“The Beatitudes simply cannot be ‘good news’ if they are understood as a set of ‘how-tos’ for achieving blessedness. They would then only amount to a new legalism” (Willard, Divine Conspiracy). Beatitudes are truths of the kingdom of God. Throughout the beatitudes (as we will discover in the next few days) it is God who declares/…