The purity spoken of in this beatitude is referred to many times throughout the Bible in those verses wherein God is a refiner removing the
Author: Michael A
Retired Christian male
God’s Appointed Means of Grace
Some readers may be wondering why I keep mentioning God’s appointed means of Grace in my posts on the beatitudes, so I thought it a
The Beatitude Life: 5, Blessed are the Merciful: for They Shall Obtain Mercy
After my first read through the Bible, one of the thoughts that kept recurring to me was that I was to show mercy to others
The Beatitude Life: 4, Hungering and Thirsting for Righteousness
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
The Beatitude Life: 3, Meekness
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
Can one find God by seeking Him?
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
The Beatitude Life: 2b, mourning for sin
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
The Beatitude Life: 2a, Mourning for Sin
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
The Beatitude Life: 1c, Self-examination
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.
The Beatitude Life: 1b, poverty of spirit
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