Just as Moses ascended Mount Sinai, to receive the Ten Commandments, Jesus ascended a mountain to give us the principles of the kingdom.
Mat 5: 1And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. 2 Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying: 3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ (John 1:17)
The laws of the kingdom are spiritual laws of being.
Romans 8: 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
The word law means principle, or power. It also means something that is parceled out, allotted, what one has in use and possession. We have been given (imparted) a measure of His Spirit in the new birth.
So, the spiritual laws that Goven God’s kingdom are a spiritual state of being. It is who we already are in heaven, and who we are becoming on earth. These qualities of our spirit will grow and develop in our lives and expand forever.
When we are perfected in love and come into our full inheritance we may not mourn over our sin, “but the root of the word sin means no-inheritance, but that spirit of mourning is still in us for those beings, that we govern over, that are not coming into alignment with God’s perfect will.
Right now, Jesus is mourning and interceding for the church, the Holy Spirit is groaning in such a way that we are not even capable of expressing it. Yet the church thinks that they got it, they got nothing yet as they ought to have, I see none of these beatitudes operating in the body of Christ in the way they should be.
These qualities of spirit are part of our inheritance as children of God, because God is our inheritance.
Our focus here on earth is to be on becoming and possessing the divine nature, which is what transformation is all about.
Right now, the church at large has it backwards, they are focused on doing, but first we must become and then we do. Otherwise, our secondary destiny of ministry will not be fulfilled because we cannot give, what we have not yet received. That is why we must become focused on becoming poor in spirit first, because I see no one on earth walking on the same level Jesus did when he was on earth, yet alone doing greater works than he did.
Blessed are the poor in spirit. THE WILL OF GOD IS A STATE OF SPIRIT; it is having a right spirit.
The Lord wants to purify our spirits, by being continually filled with His Spirit. Our spirit can be defiled if we are not continually filled.
It is only the seed of God in our spirit that cannot sin. We may still have things in our spirits which we know should not be there.
Because we want a right spirit we pray, “Lord, renew a right spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10). How will we have that right spirit?
The Holy Spirit brings to pass the purification of our spirits. After we turn aside from sin, we must go through a period in which the subconscious mind is reconditioned. Where our brain is actually reprogramed. New responses will come forth. Ways in which we once responded to circumstances and situations change.
In the Scriptures we see that God used certain men in a mighty way, but things in their spirits kept coming out and they would fail. There was fear in Peter’s spirit in that he denied his Lord.
You see James and John, the sons of thunder: James was the first of the disciples to lay his life down for the Lord as a martyr; John, who lived such a long time that they wondered if he would ever die, was called the apostle of love.
These two, James and John, were willing to bring fire down out of heaven to consume a city of the Samaritans.
Jesus said, “You know not what spirit you are of” (Luke 9:55).
God wants perfection in our spirits. We cry out to be pure in our spirits before the Lord. The imperfections in our spirits come out and become the occasion of many defeats.
The word says the Lord shall sit as a refiner and purifier of our spirits
Malachi 3: 3 and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer unto YHWH offerings in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto YHWH, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.
Gold speaks of the divine nature, and silver of the vital aspects of our redemption.
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus teaches about the Kingdom. Much of the Sermon on the Mount is talking about the human spirit and its relationship to God: so much, that if you keep that in mind you can meditate on the Sermon on the Mount for a while and find outlined there what you want in your spirit.
Jesus was opening up the great secrets of the Kingdom, and this teaching was very necessary and basic to it.
In verses 13 through 16 Jesus used both the illustration of the salt and the light as referring to the human spirit.
If the salt loses its savor, it is not good for anything. It is cast out and trodden underfoot of men.
In other words, if there is not a right spirit in what you do and say, you can be as religious as possible, but you are cast out to be trodden underfoot of men.
If there is nothing real in your spirit, your whole endeavor is empty. The secret is how much of God is in your spirit when it comes forth.
Jesus said that if the salt has lost its savor, if there is no right spirit in it, let it be stomped underfoot of men. Let men reject it, because phony religion is not an answer for the world.
The answer is a light on a lampstand where everyone can see it. When Jesus said, “You are the light of the world,” he was talking about a person’s spirit. Because when our spirit is right, we shine, our spirit is light, and the words we speak are right.
Jesus said to let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and say, “My, what a great humanitarian! Let’s make a statue to him”? No! They will glorify the Father, maybe not with words but by their response.
Remember that in the realm of the spirit we give off a light, a sound, a color and a smell.
All your works will glorify yourself unless they are done with a right spirit.
That is why the Lord said do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.
If they are done with a right spirit, they glorify the Father. Those who are doing things for credit to themselves are doing them with a wrong spirit.
Because of the Spirit of God that is working within us, He is being glorified in what we do and say. The things of a right spirit we call “blessed.” https://glorytogodministries.site/blog/a-right-spirit-2/
Beatitude means blessed- “Blessed are…”
You notice the Beatitudes are not giving you the Ten Commandments, “Thou shalt, and thou shalt not,” but they are something different. They bless a person not so much for what they do, but for what is in their spirit.
The truth that God is revealing is that you can so live your life that in everything you do your spirit coming through will glorify the Father. Everything that people see in you will give glory to God.
We can have something so pure in our spirits that in every labor, everything we do, God will get all the glory. Because of the purity of our spirits, something beautiful can come through, and the Lord will be glorified.
Picture yourself in the crowd that day when the Lord sat down on a little hill with the people gathered around, and He taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3.
The Word is so concentrated. How long do you suppose it took Him to preach that sermon? How did Jesus explain what it is to be poor in spirit? It is a quality of spirit to be poor in spirit.
Remember the Holy Spirit, limited what Matthew could write at the time when Mathew wrote this gospel, He could have expounded on what Jesus meant in detail, because he had the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ when He wrote it, which he did not at the time it was given before he was not born again. And I tend to believe Jesus said a lot more than what was recorded, because he was up on a mountain with a multitude of followers that could hear his voice, at least I would have, and actually it would have been a very short sermon Matthew 5:1- Matthew 7:27. But I do not know because I was not there, but it was recorded in a compact and precise for we can expound on for hours and hours.
John 21:25 And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
What is the opposite of being poor in spirit? Being rich in spirit? No, the person who is poor in spirit is also rich in spirit-theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
We have to contrast the poor in spirit with the proud in spirit; they are strong in their own human abilities. The person who is not poor in spirit is one who has an arrogant spirit, perhaps with a facade of phony humility; an arrogant, unteachable spirit; a self-assertive spirit; a ruthless spirit that drives to get what it wants; a sensitive spirit that is easily offended; a dominating, strong spirit; a pushy spirit; a controlling spirit, an ambitious spirit; a spirit of self-preservation, always looking out for number one; an image-guarding spirit which guards and protects their image before people; a defensive spirit, always on the defensive. All of these are the opposite of the poor in spirit.
To be selfless is to be poor in spirit. There are people who are so lost in God that self is no longer their burden.
The person who is poor in spirit is not seeking their own. In a sense, they are poor in their spirit because they are always giving to the Body. They have no attitude of things being their own, but of everything belonging to the Lord and to the Body of Christ.
A person who is poor in spirit is a person who has given their life to enrich their brother and sister, to see their life become an extension of the Body, an extension of Christ, but equally, theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
They have lost their desire for individual identity. All they want is to be an extension of the Lord. This means that every person in the Body of Christ is an extension of one another and of Christ, and Christ is an extension of them.
To be poor in spirit means that you lose your fear of man, and consequently you lose the fear of consequences. If you lose the fear of man, you are no longer afraid of what people think about you; you are bold!
The person who is poor in spirit reacts differently in any situation. Watch how a person who is proud in spirit receives offenses. “How dare that boss of mine speak to me like that!” Fuming, proud in spirit, he paces the floor. “No one can do that to me!”
How do they respond to trials? The person who is proud in spirit does not bend with the stresses. The tree that stands in the storm is the tree that bends with the wind.
The person who comes through the pressure is the person who is poor in spirit. When the winds and the storms beat against them, they bow with them, and yet they are immovable.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, because you can never impoverish them; they are always rich. Blessed are the poor in spirit, because they have the important things that no one can take from them.