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Someone who is afflicted we say today if someone is really happy that that are good spirt well think the opposite.
here is a example in the bible of someone talking about having a poor spirt
[ Psa 6:2-3 KJV] 2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I [am] weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. 3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
Matthew 5:3 says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
The word "poor" PTOKOS, was first used by Plato to describe the beggars, not poor people, but worse than poor people, beggars!
Anybody in a position that has to beg to survive is a PTOKOS. And Plato began that. In the New Testament, that's what it means.
In Luke Chapter 16, Lazarus was a beggar. He was laying out near the trash cans waiting for the garbage so he could have something to eat.
The woman who put all the money she had into the treasury in the temple, she was considered a poor person but she was not a beggar. She had the means to give and to live even though every penny was spent.
So when we are talking about a beggar and we are talking about poor "in spirit," the Lord is saying that the number one principle, and please remember that He is presenting the principles of kingdom living for disciples, you and I.
The Jewish leaders and Jewish people are listening and they've been taught their whole life that you have to work the works of the law to be righteous. And your outward appearance of success signifies whether you are keeping the law or not.
So the first thing Jesus says is "blessed are the poor in spirit," the people that realize their poverty. Not just the poverty, but the depravity of their spirit, so they come to Him.
Remember when the man was in the temple saying "Lord, be merciful to me a Sinner" and he couldn't even lift his eyes up because he was so humbled before God?
Of course the Pharisee standing over there sees him and says Lord, I'm sure glad I am not like that poor sinner over there. So that is the difference between religion and relationship!
Jesus says that everything is going to depend upon your realization first of all, and everything else is built on this.
We can't go any further than this if we don't realize the depravity of our spiritual condition.
here is a example in the bible of someone talking about having a poor spirt
[ Psa 6:2-3 KJV] 2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I [am] weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. 3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
Matthew 5:3 says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
The word "poor" PTOKOS, was first used by Plato to describe the beggars, not poor people, but worse than poor people, beggars!
Anybody in a position that has to beg to survive is a PTOKOS. And Plato began that. In the New Testament, that's what it means.
In Luke Chapter 16, Lazarus was a beggar. He was laying out near the trash cans waiting for the garbage so he could have something to eat.
The woman who put all the money she had into the treasury in the temple, she was considered a poor person but she was not a beggar. She had the means to give and to live even though every penny was spent.
So when we are talking about a beggar and we are talking about poor "in spirit," the Lord is saying that the number one principle, and please remember that He is presenting the principles of kingdom living for disciples, you and I.
The Jewish leaders and Jewish people are listening and they've been taught their whole life that you have to work the works of the law to be righteous. And your outward appearance of success signifies whether you are keeping the law or not.
So the first thing Jesus says is "blessed are the poor in spirit," the people that realize their poverty. Not just the poverty, but the depravity of their spirit, so they come to Him.
Remember when the man was in the temple saying "Lord, be merciful to me a Sinner" and he couldn't even lift his eyes up because he was so humbled before God?
Of course the Pharisee standing over there sees him and says Lord, I'm sure glad I am not like that poor sinner over there. So that is the difference between religion and relationship!
Jesus says that everything is going to depend upon your realization first of all, and everything else is built on this.
We can't go any further than this if we don't realize the depravity of our spiritual condition.
Hope this helps!
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