Life in the Kingdompt. 2

ByBrian Birdow

Sermon text: Matthew 5www.cmcoc.org

Objective of lesson• To understand the beatitude

• To understand poor in spirit

Beatitudes • Matthew 5….turn with me please…..

• Matthew 5:3—blessed= privileged one of divine favor, happy!

• Poor—-ptochos, reduced to beggary; destitute of wealth, influence, position, honors.

• He is not talking about physical poverty but spiritual poverty.

Poor in Spirit• Poverty of spirit is the opposite of that

haughty, self-assertive and self sufficient disposition that the world so much admires and praises.

• It is the very reverse of that independent and defiant attitude that refuses to bow to God. (Luke 15:11ff)

• Exodus 5:2…..turn with me please

• Acts 12:20-23…turn with me please