My wife, my kids, my kids, my job, I default to that as like the markers of God's blessing,

and I think what's so helpful is, yes, those are blessings and gifts.

But below that is the well-being of the relationship with God that he initiated,

accepts you, the things that you think are markers that God hates you and is against you are actually the exact opposite that he comes near you.

Like, that needs to be repeated because I have amnesia on blessing.

And so that point is just really helpful.

Like listeners, for us too, your sins are forgiven.

That's the blessing.

You come with sins and you get forgiveness.

You come with filth and you get righteousness. You come being excluded. You get adoption. You come

being dominated by an enemy and the enemy's head gets crushed.

You come with knowing you're going to die and don't deserve eternal life of Jesus and you get

eternal life with Jesus in the family of God adopted.

Like, that's the stuff I need to hear modern church. This is Whitehorse Sin, a weekly

roundtable discussion about theology and culture. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5.3 part of the beatitudes that we're going through here in this series of Whitehorse

and you know how different all this is from the prosperity gospel and the general

triumphalism of many Christians today we look on the outside of things. What Luther called

a theology of glory, how things appear to us. We mistake that for the reality. People look righteous on the outside people look happy on the outside healthy on the outside

but like the Pharisees as Jesus says that inside they're just dead full of dead bones

You know this brother or sister is wealthy or prosperous so they they're blessed. Well maybe, it's possible somebody

who's blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ is also

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