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The Beatitudes
Throughout church history professing Christians have approached the interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount in several different ways. But how you interpret the Sermon on the Mount will radically determine not only how you understand Jesus’ preaching, but also how you live the Christian life. Therefore, it is crucial that we as Christians understand how to rightly interpret and understand Jesus’ most famous words—beginning with the beatitudes. Join Tom Pennington as he gives an explanation of each of The Beatitudes.
Part 8
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus says that His true disciples are consistently characterized by meekness and gentleness. Because this quality is not inherent to human beings, you must be a follower of Jesus Christ and be under the power of the Holy Spirit to produce it. And if meekness is a reality in your life, Jesus says that you will partake in the new heaven and earth in the future.
Part 9
At the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount, as Jesus describes the qualities of every true Christian, He says that God’s people will hunger and thirst for righteousness. In the same way that every person depends on food and water for life, every Christian must desire to live righteously before God, both positionally and morally and ethically, according to what has been written in God’s Word.