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.
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.
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. 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.
SERMON ON MOUNT 2
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/
SERMON ON THE MOUNT 3
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.
That is why the Lord gave me the name of my ministry-Glory to God! Ministries. I want to teach you how to glorify God!
When I was baptized in the Spirit and spoke in tongues, I asked the Lord for the interpretation and he said “I have called you to be a general in my army, and the name of your ministry is glory to God! Ministries. You must watch out for these ministries that name them after themselves, they want to make a name for themselves, they are still full of personal ambition.
I was like that myself; I had to lay my ministry on the altar because it was an Idol. Then I didn’t want to be in the ministry, and the Holy Spirit had to forcefully tell me to start writing and do it Now!
Then I bought Adobe PDF so nobody could copy it, then the Lord put it in my spirit to teach the Bible for free, and that he would support me, and He has been faithful from the time I have started building this website, and those who do support me will share in my reward. I do not live in poverty, but I also do not live in prosperity, but I always get my needs met.
But I have not gone public yet, and only those who are on Facebook know about me.
And I think I can write books on Kindle for nothing, at least I saw some on there that were free.
And the Lord made this a reasonable thing for me because right before I went to Norvel Hayes ministry, everyone went off salary and became faith ministries, and they went off on their own, and I lost track of them.
When I used to work a secular job, I would spend all my extra money buying other ministries’ materials, and who knows how many thousands of dollars I have spent.
Then I thought of all the Third World countries that cannot afford to spend money on ministry materials, most of them do not even have enough money for the bare necessities, like water, food and clothing.
I have one ministry overseas that reads all my posts on Facebook and my website, and he told me it has totally transformed his life and his church.
When I was getting government housing, I wanted to help feed the poor, but most ministries begging for money do not feed their people spiritual food. And there was one lady who prayed for me for seven years faithfully on messenger and never once asked me for money for her orphanage and she knows the word, the Lord said support her.
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.
SERMON ON THE MOUNT 4
THE POOR IN SPIRIT
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.
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; 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.