The greatest barrier to fully partaking of Christ’s righteousness in thought, word, deed and character is our failure to desire it enough and our unwillingness to pay any price to attain it. We are far too easily satisfied! And yet, we are never truly satisfied. But Jesus said when we hunger and third for his righteousness more than anything else, he will give us a rich, lasting and incomparable satisfaction like no other experience can provide.
In the fifth beatitude, Jesus said, “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.” As we become conduits of God’s mercy, we...
The beatitudes are really a constitutional document…rather than a bill of rights however, they are a bill of responsibilities, and a bill of rewards....
Christians in every age and in every place tend to drift from a biblical view of the kingdom of God to a view that...