What Does "Blessed" Mean? (The Beatitudes Pt. 1)

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🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Sermon on the Mount E4 – What does Jesus mean when he calls people “blessed” in the first section of the Sermon on the Mount? The Greek word translated as “blessed” is makarios, and its Hebrew equivalent is ashrey, which means “the good life.” But there’s another Hebrew word for blessing, barukh, which refers to blessings from God. In this episode, Tim, Jon, and guests unpack what it means to be blessed according to Jesus’ counterintuitive message as he ushers in the kingdom of the skies.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bible Project Podcast, in today's episode we begin the sermon on the Mount looking
0:10.3	at the very first word of the sermon.
0:12.4	It's the word blessed and with me is
0:14.4	co-host Michelle Jones. Hi Michelle. Hi Chuck, how are you doing? I'm good, how are you?
0:18.8	I'm good too. Michelle would you say you are blessed? Well, that depends.
0:23.0	What do you mean by that?
0:24.0	I mean, it's not a word that comes with a lot of baggage,
0:27.0	but I feel like it's one of those words that's lost, its weightiness.
0:30.0	Yeah.
0:31.0	In fact, I've stopped using that word. Really? Yeah, because I just don't really know what it means, so I've just shied away from it.
0:38.0	Which feels awkward because it's such a biblical word.
0:41.0	Yeah, pretty much the biblical word other than Amen. Right.
0:44.8	What you're going to notice with our translation of Sermon the Mount is we messed with
0:49.6	this word. We don't begin the translation with Blessed are Those Who. We translate it the good life is for those who.
0:56.5	Why did you mess with such a common translation? Exactly. That's what today's episode is all about
1:03.0	What did Jesus mean when he said, blessed?
1:06.0	Well, I'm going to send you a way to talk to Tim about that.
1:09.0	Okay.
1:10.0	Thanks for joining us.
1:11.0	Here we go. We're getting into it. These are the blessings, the nine blessings.
1:29.0	Yes.
1:30.0	Should we just read them? Let's read them.
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