If you want God’s approval that badly, you can have it. Performance art only adjoins the scenic arts in certain aspects such as the audience and the present body, and still not every performance art piece contains these elements. Jesus later emphasized "I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance." If Jesus was teaching the innate blessedness of material poverty, then the task of Christians would be to help make everyone, including themselves, penniless. And if one feels anything in the presence of God save an utter poverty of spirit, it ultimately means that you have never faced Him. The Greek word here ([makarioi]) is an adjective that means “happy” which in English etymology goes back to hap, chance, good-luck as seen in our words haply, hapless, happily, happiness. 51:7). Our Lord says that this is the only kind of person who is truly 'blessed, that is, 'happy'. The "Word of the kingdom" the seed and is the word of God which in context is another way of saying the Gospel, the Good News which one believes and by which one is saved and gains entrance into the Kingdom of God/Heaven. The knowledge of our own poverty brings us to the moral frontier where Jesus Christ works. Why does Matthew talk about the kingdom of heaven rather than the kingdom of God? (Ferguson, Sinclair: Sermon on the Mount :Banner of Truth), Spurgeon - Spiritual poverty is both commanded and commended. Click here and take a moment to meditate on "blessed" in the Psalms (you will be blessed! They heard the Lord Jesus offer a true righteousness from God, and they spurned it. Simple trust in Christ—with no claim of their own merits—that's what God is looking for. 9 'Happy the peacemakers -- because they shall be called (FUTURE TENSE) Sons of God. (The Gospel of the Kingdom: A Popular Exposition of the Gospel According to Matthew.). It has been well said that Christ’s teaching might be summed up in two words, “Believe” and “Blessed.” Mark tells us that he preached, saying, “Repent ye, and believe the gospel;” and Matthew in this passage informs us that he came saying, “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” All his teaching was meant to bless the sons of men; for “God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.”, “His hand no thunder bears, Psalm 34:6 (Spurgeon's note) This poor man cried and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. ", How unlike the world is Jesus' opening salvo, for the world of natural men would open more like…. His unsettling artworks emphasized the conceptual nature of art and the creation process. I. Your fitness is your unfitness. Jesus makes the Kingdom and its blessings currently available. You remember how on one occasion, when they charged Him with casting out devils by the power of Beelzebub, He showed them the utter folly of that, and then went on to say, 'If I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you' (Matt 12:28). In Jewish prayers one frequently praises and prays for God’s reign. St. Augustine says that they hunger and thirst after the Righteous One, " Jesus Christ the Righteous." The limitation of the Sermon on the Mount lies in the fact that our Lord reveals His standards for the Kingdom life, without the full revelation of the power by which this standard can be obtained or maintained. Only those who “receive the kingdom of God like a child” (Mark 10:15) or accept God’s rule here and now, enter into the realm of its blessings in the future. Only for those who know and love the Lord Jesus Christ, who by faith have become partakers in the divine nature (2Pe 1:4-note), the same bliss, the same contentment, the same happiness, the same sense of makarios that is fundamentally an element of the character of God and Christ, is ours. Mt 20:23), and Jesus declares that He will hold those in lowest esteem who hold His Word in low esteem. Your King stands ready to receive you and to make you one of His royal subjects. She was part of the Fluxus movement. All who place their faith in Christ are immediately transferred (aorist tense, in context = past completed act) from the kingdom of the devil to the Kingdom of the Deliverer (Jesus). Some interpreters have maintained that the Greek word makarios then compare it with the believer 's blessed state thus! Pharisees! `` was thus that the only ones who tap the real resource for happiness, or from! 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