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Sermon
How to Be Blessed Week 1: Be Poor in Spirit
Rev. Jessie Lowry
SERMON SERIES: How to be Blessed: The Beatitudes
Who among us does not want our lives to be happy and blessed? We receive all kinds of advice from our world about how to achieve exactly that, and yet we find that much of it falls short. Jesus has different ideas of what it means to be blessed, and we find those in His Beatitudes. We are going to spend time with each one of His sayings on blessing found in Matthew 5 and consider other places in scripture that affirm the same sources of blessing for us.
5 When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he sat down,
his disciples came to him. 2 And he began to speak and taught them, saying:
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
5 “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.
8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
10 “Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 “Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all
kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for
your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the
prophets who were before you.
