To explain this beatitude, I will again use some excerpts from an E-sword commentary, the Expositor’s Bible Commentary, EBC: …for “eye hath not seen, nor

False Christian teachings, trends….
To explain this beatitude, I will again use some excerpts from an E-sword commentary, the Expositor’s Bible Commentary, EBC: …for “eye hath not seen, nor
This beatitude is the first of the fruit of poverty of spirit and mourning for sin. It will be explained by a partial quote from
Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity
To experience Biblical mourning for sin, one must be born again; that is, he must know that there is a spiritual kingdom ruled by a
To review the first beatitude in a nutshell: the Holy Spirit works poverty of spirit into a believer. It is the realization that he is
2Co 13:5 Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine. Test yourselves. Surely you know that Jesus Christ is among you; if not, you have failed the test of genuine faith.
We are still considering Matthew 5:3, poverty of spirit, but before concluding that topic, the following intimately related topic of the two gates/ways needs to
Mat 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.