Poor in Spirit

First15 Devotional

First15

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The biblical concept of being poor in spirit is foundational to every aspect of the Christian life. Foundational to salvation is a heart-level acknowledgment of our need for a Savior. Foundational to experiencing God’s love is acknowledging our great need of love. Foundational to heavenly peace and joy is an acknowledgment that this world truly offers us neither. If we want all that God in his grace offers, we must pursue a lifestyle of being poor in spirit. May you experience more of the depth of God’s love this week as you discover God’s heart to minister to those desperate for him.

Our Scripture for today comes from James 4:6, and today's worship is Everything You Are by First15 Worship feat. John Mark Kohl.

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Thank you so much for listening to today’s podcast, the first in our week-long series on what it means to be poor in spirit. I’m Craig Denison, author of First15.

My hope for this week is that God would guide you and me into humility, following the example of Jesus. And that in learning what it is to be humble, we would see what it means to live wrapped up in the kingdom of heaven come to earth.

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Have a great rest of your day, and may God bless you as you seek him.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The biblical concept of being poor and spirit is foundational to every aspect of the Christian life.
0:11.0	Foundational to salvation is a heart-level acknowledgement of our need for our Savior.
0:17.0	Foundational to experiencing God's love is acknowledging our great need of love.
0:22.5	Foundational to heavenly peace and joy is an acknowledgement that this world truly offers us
0:27.9	neither. If we want all that God and His grace offers, we must pursue a lifestyle of being
0:33.8	poor in spirit. May you experience more of the depth of God's love this week
0:39.0	as you discover God's heart to minister to those desperate for him.
0:43.7	Welcome to the first 15 podcast.
0:48.3	Blessed are the poor and spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
0:53.0	Who is this God that he would bless those who are spiritually impoverished with the greatest
0:58.2	gift of all, the kingdom of heaven?
1:01.5	Our God demonstrated his wealth of grace, help, and love to all who are in need through
1:07.2	the words and actions of Jesus.
1:10.6	Jesus who came to reveal the heart of the Father,
1:12.7	was undoubtedly drawn to the weak, desperate, and estranged.
1:17.4	And, in comparison to his affection for the impoverished,
1:20.8	he was incredibly critical of all those enveloped
1:24.0	with mankind's chief sin, pride.
1:30.8	Jesus' ministry made clear what thousands of years of religion, sin, and the rule of the law obscured, the necessity of being poor in spirit
1:37.1	to have true relationship with God. You see, even today we buy into the false doctrine that
1:43.8	our works somehow justify us to God.
1:46.7	Even today, we believe that we can clean ourselves up, do better, work harder, or love more,
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