The Gospel of Jesus: The Life God Blesses

• The

in spirit (v. 3)
• Those who

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(v. 4)
• The meek (v. 5)
• Those who

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and thirst for justice (v. 6)
• The merciful (v. 7)
• The

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in heart (v. 8)
• The peacemakers (v. 9)
• Those who

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for their faith (vv. 10-12)

If the Beatitudes were rewritten for today …

• Blessed are the

, for they will be able to do whatever they want and accumulate many fabulous things.
• Blessed are the

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, for they will capitalize on their abilities.
• Blessed are the

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, for they will be adored and beloved and envied by others.

• Blessed are the

and influencers, for they will control trends and markets and people.
• Blessed are the

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, for they will live without the help or advice of other people.
• The Beatitudes are

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for the hopeless.
• The Beatitudes aren’t a list of virtues to cultivate, but a description of unlikely people who are

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of God’s grace.

“The Beatitudes, in particular, are not teachings on how to be blessed. They are not instructions to do anything. They don’t indicate conditions that are pleasing to God or good for human beings. No one is actually being told that they’re better off for being poor, for mourning, for being persecuted, and so on, or that the conditions listed are recommended ways to well-being before God or man … They are explanations and illustrations, drawn from the immediate setting, of the present availability of the kingdom through personal relationship to Jesus. They single out cases that provide proof that, in him, the rule of God from the heavens truly is available in life circumstances that are beyond all hope.” —The Divine Conspiracy, Dallas Willard, p. 106.

• The blessing isn’t in the condition itself; the blessing is in the

that is

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to us through personal relationship with Jesus.
• The gospel according to Jesus is that God desires to dwell in the

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places of our lives.
• The kingdom of God is available to

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.