January 25, 2013 Matthew 5 The Beatitudes Blessed Happy to be envied and spiritually prosperous with life-joy and

-joy and satisfaction in Gods favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions are the people who are humble, rating themselves significant theirs is the kingdom of heaven! Blessed Enviably Happy with a happiness produced by experience of Gods favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His matchless Grace are the people who mourn, they will be comforted! Blessed Happy, Blithesome, Joyous, Spiritually Prosperous with life-joy and satisfaction in Gods Favor and Salvation, regardless of their outward conditions are those who are mild, patient, long-suffering these will inherit the earth! Blessed and Fortunate and Happy and Spiritually Prosperous is the born-again child of God enjoying His favor and salvation are those people who hunger and thirst for being upright and in right standing with God, they will be completely satisfied! Blessed Happy to be envied and spiritually prosperous with life-joy and satisfaction in Gods favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions are merciful people, they will obtain (get/receive) mercy. Blessed Happy enviably fortunate and spiritually prosperous possessing the happiness produced by experiencing Gods favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His Grace, regardless of their outward conditions are pure in heart, they will see God! Blessed enjoying enviable happiness spiritually prosperous with life-joy and satisfaction in Gods favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions these are the makers and maintainers of peace these will be called the sons of God! Blessed and happy and enviably fortunate and spiritually prosperous enjoying and finding satisfaction in Gods favor and salvation, regardless of outward conditions these people are persecuted for being and doing right these people will have the kingdom of God! Blessed and happy to be envied and spiritually prosperous with life-joy and satisfaction in Gods favor and salvation, regardless of outward conditions these are people reviled and persecuted and have all kinds of evil said about them falsely on the account of Jesus.

We can be glad and supremely joyful. Our reward in heaven is strong and intense. We are the salt of the earth. We are the light of the world. If we lose our flavor if people cannot taste or see Jesus in / through our lives our life is worthless, useless, purposeless. There is no point in our existence. People need to SEE moral excellence, praiseworthy and noble good deeds, and recognizing and giving honoring to our Heavenly Father. We need to practice the laws of God and teach others to practice them as well. We need to protect life on every level, not just the physical level but also on the intellectual/moral/ethical/emotional levels as well. When Jesus has penetrated/saturated every one of these levels then we will be pure and we will be able to see God and God will be seen in/through us.