Who are the poor in spirit?

Listen to Adrian Rogers.

This is the first key to the king.

Blessed are the poor in spirit.

What's he talking about? Well he's really talking about being a

beggar. He's saying blessed are the beggars. Welcome to love worth finding

featuring the powerful timeless truth of God's word presented simply by Adrian Rogers.

In our world today, there is a stronger emphasis on what we have than what we are. The world says,

blessed are those with wealth, strength, power, knowledge, and popularity.

But in his sermon on the mount Jesus puts an emphasis not primarily on what a man has but what a man is

The first of these character qualities is a poorness of spirit.

If you have your Bible turn to Matthew Chapter 5,

as Adrian Rogers reveals when bankruptcy becomes a blessing.

Befinding,

Matthew, Chapter 5, as we begin today a wonderful journey through the sermon on the

mount.

I think all of us have read the sermon on the mount and have enjoyed it but we're going to look at it I trust in a new and a fresh way and today we're going to start with that part of the sermon on the mouth that we call the beatitudes.

Someone has called these beatitudes, the attitudes that ought to be the beatitudes. what they are is really a blueprint for happiness.

What they are are foundation stones for building your home and your life, really what they are. They are the keys to the

kingdom. I begin reading in Matthew chapter 5 verse 1 it speaks of the Lord Jesus and it says

in seeing the multitudes he went up into a mountain and when he was set his

disciples came unto him and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

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