"Happy are those who know they are spiritually
poor." Matthew 5:3 (Step 1)
“You see, that's where it all begins. That's where entrance into the kingdom begins. That's
where it all starts. By the way, it doesn't end after that. Living in the kingdom requires a constant and
continual admission that in yourself you're nothing and your only strength comes in the midst of your own admission of
weakness”....”So, that's where salvation begins. Blessing begins, happiness begins with this admission...the
absence of all pride, the absence of all self-confidence, self-righteousness, self-assurance, self-reliance, the knowledge
that we're nothing before God in ourselves at all.” “There must be this emptying before there can ever
be a filling.”
John
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"Happy
are those who know they are spiritually poor." Matthew 5:3 (Step 1)
“Any Messiah who comes along and proposes to replace self-reliance with childlike God-reliance,
and self-confidence with submissive God-confidence, and self-determination with sovereign grace, and self-esteem with magnificent
mercy for the unworthy—that Messiah is going to be a threat to the religion of self-admiration. That religion has dominated
the world ever since Adam and Eve fell in love with the image of their own independent potential when they it saw reflected
back to them in the eye of the serpent: ‘You will not die; you will be like God.’"
Blessed Are the
Poor in Spirit Who Mourn Matthew 5:3-4 Read | Download: Audio
By John
Piper. February 2, 1986 © Desiring God. Website:
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