Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Matthew 5:7 Blessed are they who are merciful! They will receive mercy! It’s the exact literal translation, right? It’s an exclamatory sentence to begin with “you are blessed! You who are blessed!” Those who are merciful, they will receive mercy. This is what we will study today. Whenever these kinds of verses come out, the Christian doctri..

Sermon on the Mount 05- Being Truly Satisfied Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Matthew 5:6-7 Now we have come to the fourth blessing. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, they will be satisfied. Is thirst and hunger compatible with being satisfied? But the Lord is talking about a very incompatible combination of thirst ..

The Earth the Meek Shall Inherit Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Mathew 5:5 The literal translation of today’s text is: “Those who are spiritually blessed are meek. They will receive the earth as an inheritance.” I have told you this is exclamatory. It begins with “you who are blessed!” It means that the blessed are proclaimed and they are meek and will receive the earth ..

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Mathew 5:4 In my childish college years, I read a book about Rosa Luxemburg and it had a profound impact on me. Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish philosopher who was a socialist revolutionary. She was a female fighter who strongly criticized Lenin’s dictatorial actions even when she was a socialism activist and attempted the Berlin Revolution t..

Blessed are the Poor in Spirit “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Mathew 5:3 A friend of mine whom I like was scheduled to appear on TV for the first time in a while so I intentionally watched the show called “I am A Singer". My friend’s face, which I had not seen for a long time, was clearly marked with the imprints of time and he seemed to have lost much of ..

The mountain of the New Testament shatters the mountain of the Old Testament Mathew 5:1-32 Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him 2 And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. 5 “Blessed are the meek, for..