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Hey, what's up? Hope your summer has been fantastic and you have had the chance to make some memories.

Thanks for tuning in to the podcast. My name is bro and grateful

that you would give this a listen each weekday. And thanks for sharing it with friends as well.

I pray for our listeners every single day, and I hope that these few minutes are really helpful to you.

We are currently unpacking the little section of the Bible known as the Beatitudes. It's kind of

the introduction

to this amazing sermon that Jesus gave 2,000 years ago, and it is still so fresh, so countercultural,

so upside down, so inside out. He says at the end of his message in Matthew chapter 7,

anyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise person who builds their house

on a rock solid foundation. I'm telling you, it really is something foundational upon which to build

your life. So we're just looking at this first little section. Like we're reviewing the ascending

rungs of a ladder, where each step builds upon the one before it, such as Jesus starts out

by saying the first step to happiness is the acknowledgement of your spiritual poverty. He says,

blessed of the poor and spirit, those who recognize they're busted, that they need God in their life.

Then the second wrong is happier those who mourn. So you say, mourn over what? The fact that they

have discovered how spiritually busted that they have discovered,

how spiritually busted that they actually are. They move to an authentic brokenness that humbly comes to God saying, God, I want to get well. Then the next step is coming to God in that brokenness and say,

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