CRUCIAL ASPECTS OF MATTHEW 5 THROUGH 7 – WEEK 1
The Blessedness of Being Poor in Spirit
and Pure in Heart
That We May Be under Christ’s Heavenly Ruling
as Our New King
and That We May See God
to Express Him in His Life
and Represent Him with His Authority
Related Verses
Rom. 14:17
17 For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Isa. 11:2-3
2 And the Spirit of Jehovah will rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and the fear of Jehovah.
3 He will delight in the fear of Jehovah: He will neither judge by what His eyes see, Nor decide by what His ears hear.
Luke 14:26
26 If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and moreover, even his own soul-life, he cannot be My disciple.
Phil. 3:7-8
7 But what things were gains to me, these I have counted as loss on account of Christ.
8 But moreover I also count all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as refuse that I may gain Christ
2 Cor. 4:10-12
10 Always bearing about in the body the putting to death of Jesus that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
11 For we who are alive are always being delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death operates in us, but life in you.
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