Comments on: Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit https://reformedforum.org/blessed-are-the-poor-in-spirit/ Reformed Theological Resources Thu, 28 Dec 2017 14:33:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Carl Gobelman https://reformedforum.org/blessed-are-the-poor-in-spirit/#comment-3536410 Thu, 21 Dec 2017 19:06:53 +0000 http://reformedforum.org/?p=7515#comment-3536410 I love the idea that for those who **are** poor in spirit, theirs **is** the kingdom of heaven. You’re absolutely right that so many read the Beatitudes in such a way that **if** you are poor in spirit, etc, **then** yours is the kingdom of heaven, etc. I am even reminded of people who call them the “BE-attitudes” (not sure who coined that rather unfortunate phrase, but it expresses exactly that backwards thinking you expressed).

Praise be to God that we don’t have to **do** anything, but that it has already been done by Christ!

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