Teacher: Pastor Chet Lowe
Main Scriptures: Matthew 5, Philippians 2
- Only believers can receive the blessings in the Beatitudes
- Humility is counter-cultural
- God’s thoughts are both different and higher than ours
- These truths are supernatural, and we cannot walk in them without His Spirit (Isaiah 35:8)
- Jesus defines “blessing” for us
- The blessing is for both now and the future
- Poverty of Spirit looks like humility
- It takes humility to hear and do the words of Christ (Matthew 7:24)
- Humility is
- wise and provides us grace (James 4:6)
- a command despite our feelings
- comes from His presence
- is proven in action
- Jesus sets the example in humility
- He was content and not offended as He gave up His rights