A Kingdom of Blessing - Gospel of Matthew Part 5
Exploring My Strange Bible
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The Kingdom of God Is Here
The nine blessings in the bible are not meant to be taken separately. They are criptions of the kinds of people to whom jesus, in fact, first brought the kingdom of god. Nowhere does jesus tell us that we should try to be poor in spirit, or mourn all the time, or try to get yourself persecuted. He simply announces the great surprise that these people who are not significant or honored in their society are precisely the ones who have received the honor to be first among those called into god's kingdom.
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