OUR FATHER WHO SENT A SAVIOUR WHO TEACHES US Part 1

Beginning the  series of axiomatic principles related to God's kingdom Jesus taught His followers what are known as 'the Beatitudes', Mathew chapter 5 verses 1 - 3 sets the scene of an informal meeting on the side of a mountain where Jesus and His disciples were sitting on the ground and looking out at the crowd of people below them.

1 Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, 2 and he began to teach them.

He said: 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

The Lord began the teaching by listing the primary qualifier needed to be part of the kingdom of heaven and that is to be 'poor in spirit'.

To be poor in spirit means to be bereft of any self-significance and to have no spiritual pride and therefore, to begin ones' journey into the kingdom of heaven, one must be fully pursuaded of ones' own bankruptcy and inability to meet any requirements by ones' own merits.

To be in any condition of self-assuredness or self-confidence would exclude a person from being able to be part of the kingdom. 

Of all the people who had gathered below them, Jesus taught His disciples that only the ones who were there because they knew that they had no reserves left and had exhausted all alternate pathways to redemtion by their own efforts would be permitted to even begin their journey into the kingdom of heaven.

Amen.

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