I want to talk about the next couple of these beatitudes that Jesus is listening at the beginning of his sermon on the mount Matthew chapter 5

His first big public speech according to Matthew. He's been out and about teaching and healing and doing stuff.

So he's got a big following by this point and he sits down his disciples in Matthew

Chapter 5 and starts to teach them on this hill or this high place or whatever near the Sea of Galilee and a pair of things and are already following him. Now, admittedly, nobody's been following him for that long because

he hasn't been doing this for that long. So everyone who's hearing this is still kind of on the

front end of what's the point Jesus there are a whole bunch of other

Messiahs or Messianic claimants who have come and gone. You know they wanted dumb stuff.

The money or women or power or whatever, and whenever they finally get around to

making their big ask or their big play for that thing that they were manipulating and angling

for all along, everybody clears out, or they just get, you know, murdered by the government or something so that

they'll go away whatever the case they all fall off but they all eventually want

something so Jesus now has his chance to finally start to turn over his cards for these people who have been

following him around who are pretty convinced there's something supernatural

going on here and as he does so he leads not with asking for stuff but instead by redefining everything, redefining

value and that which is desirable and good and worth pursuing with a person's life.

And so he lists off this batch of stuff.

It's called the beatitudes,

but it doesn't ever say the word beatitudes anywhere here.

It goes like this.

Blessed or the porn spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they'll be comforted. Blessed of are those who mourn for they'll be

comforted. Blessed of the meek for they'll inherit the earth. Blessed are

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