Bible Discussion Thread

The Lord sitting down to teach His disciples was to expound what He was preaching everywhere the Announced Glad tidings of the kingdom of heaven at hand beginning with telling us plainly who are the "Blessed." To the ones who have not the kind of spirit in them to withstand the hateful and hostile, and are naturally run over and dominated by the proud those who are the least and the weakest in the eyes of the world these FIRST shall be rewarded their good things, for all the evil things they had to endure. Those with no power to make a stand, or speak up for themselves like the poor beggar laid at the rich man's gate, starving and sick and having NO ONE WHO LOVED HIM these FIRST shall be received with tenderest love and comfort into Abraham's bosom. It is a character trait and a kind of soul that the Lord Jesus Christ seeks first to bring him the good news of salvation. It is the fundamental nature of Jesus' disciples the first evidence of a heart touched by God's acceptance and grace. It is the first thing that will be known of us when we come to appear before Him, to give account of the things we did in life. It is the fact done of truth in the inward parts where our Father in heaven sees in the concealed, and of what men behold in our manner of life.