Good morning, happy Monday. Welcome to the morning motivation. This week we are going to talk about

the very first of the beatitudes. Jesus gives eight beatitudes. These are Matthew 5. They all start

with Blessed R. Beatitude means supreme blessedness. It can be often translated as happy,

but it's much deeper than like a fleeting happiness. Blissful is literally means to be enlarged.

Think of it as a spiritual well-being and prosperity. As we will talk about in Tuesday's longer Politics by Faith episode,

we do not in our culture talk about the heart or the soul, really ever. I was going to say enough,

but we don't talk about it at all. And it's why people are so anxious all the time. But this blissfulness and blessedness of the soul, that's where true joy comes from. So we should figure out what these things are. Maybe we'll go through them all. That'd actually be pretty good to do. But at least we're going to do the very first one this week.

So let's start, Matthew 5.

Seeing the crowds, he went up to the mountain.

And when he sat down, his disciples came to him.

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

Blessed are the poor in spirit.

For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

The poor in spirit. What does that mean? I like how these things in the Bible sometimes, you're like, well, I know those words. I know the word poor. I know the word in. I know the word in. I don't know the word spirit. Poor and spirit. Okay, sure, yeah. We just move on without saying, well, what is, I don't know what that means.

So that's going to be the theme of the week.

Buckle up.

A couple intro points before we get going.

First, there is no one who is in the kingdom of God who is not poor in spirit.

So we better figure out what it is.

If you want to be in the kingdom of God,

you have to be poor in spirit.

Well, I don't know what poor and spirit means.

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