The Poor in Spirit & The Problem People (TMF:1964)

Thursday, October 20, 2022
Peace to Live By: The Poor in Spirit & The Problem People (TMF:1964) - Daniel Litton
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       What does it mean to be an heir of the kingdom of God? What came to my mind right away was The Beatitudes. Turn over quickly to Luke chapter 6. I want us to look at Luke’s account of The Beatitudes. See the same theme here? I sure do. Poor versus rich. James must have been referencing this. Note how Jesus started with the word poor to denote all kinds of different people: the monetarily poor, the hungry (those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, as Matthew tells us), the one’s who are sad, for they weep, and of course, the ones who are hated. So, then, it is the poor in money, the poor in food, the poor in happiness, and the poor in good relations. What about the rich? What does Jesus say about them? Who are the problem people? Those, we could say, who are full of righteousness (I’m sure lots of people are flying into our heads), the ones who laugh now (perhaps they’re not concerned about sin), and the ones of whom everyone speaks well of.