If you have been following this beatitude series, then you know that I was compelled to write it because it seemed to me that most
Author: Michael A
Retired Christian male
The Beatitude Life: 7: Mat 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
What is Biblical peace? It is that state wherein man is reconciled to God via the gospel message of the Lord Jesus Christ; it is
The Beatitude Life: 6, Mat 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
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
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