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Jesus begins the Sermon on the Mount with an announcement of grace. Learn what it means to be poor in spirit, and why the kingdom belongs to those who come with empty hands. (Matthew 5:3)

Jesus begins the Sermon on the Mount with an announcement of grace. Learn what it means to be poor in spirit, and why the kingdom belongs to those who come with empty hands.

Poor in Spirit: Empty Hands Before the King

Jesus calls the grieving blessed, not because sorrow is good, but because mourning will not win. Learn what kingdom people mourn and how God's comfort answers it. (Matthew 5:4)

Grief held inside the promise of comfort.

Jesus calls the grieving blessed, not because sorrow is good, but because mourning will not win. Learn what kingdom people mourn and how God's comfort answers it.

Those Who Mourn: Grief Held Inside a Promise

In a world that grabs, Jesus says the future belongs to the humble. Learn what meekness is, what it isn't, and why God gives the earth to people who refuse to seize it. (Matthew 5:5)

The meek inherit what others try to grab.

In a world that grabs, Jesus says the future belongs to the humble. Learn what meekness is, what it isn't, and why God gives the earth to people who refuse to seize it.

The Humble: Open Hands in a Grasping World

Matthew 5:6. What kind of hunger Jesus blesses, what righteousness means in Matthew, and why God promises to satisfy it.

A longing for righteousness God will fill.

What are you really hungry for. Jesus blesses people who long for God's good will in their own lives and in His world, and He promises they will be filled.

Those Who Hunger and Thirst: A Hunger God Will Satisfy

Jesus blesses the merciful, then shows us the Merciful One. Learn what mercy means in Matthew, why it begins with the character of God, and how mercy received becomes mercy given. (Matthew 5:7)

Mercy received from God, passed on to others.

Jesus blesses the merciful, then shows us the Merciful One. Learn what mercy means in Matthew, why it begins with the character of God, and how mercy received becomes mercy given.

The Merciful: Mercy Received, Mercy Given

Jesus looks beneath the surface to the heart and blesses those whose hearts are being made whole toward God. Learn what a pure heart is, why it means having one Master, how God cleanses what we can't, and what it means that the pure in heart will see God. (Matthew 5:8)

An undivided heart that will one day see God.

Jesus looks beneath the surface to the heart and blesses those whose hearts are being made whole toward God. Learn what a pure heart is, why it means having one Master, how God cleanses what we can't, and what it means that the pure in heart will see God.

Pure in Heart: The King and the Undivided Heart

Jesus blesses people who make peace, not just people who avoid conflict. Learn what peacemaking is, why it bears the family resemblance of the Father, how Christ makes peace through His cross, and how His people live now as citizens of God's coming world. (Matthew 5:9)

Making peace as children who look like the Father.

Jesus blesses people who make peace, not just people who avoid conflict. Learn what peacemaking is, why it bears the family resemblance of the Father, how Christ makes peace through His cross, and how His people live now as citizens of God's coming world.

The Peacemakers: The King and the Family Resemblance

Jesus ends the Beatitudes not with applause but with opposition, and He calls the persecuted blessed. The eighth and final course in The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:10–12).

When faithfulness costs, the blessing stands.

Jesus ends the Beatitudes not with applause but with opposition, and He calls the persecuted blessed. Learn why the cause of opposition matters, what it means to suffer "because of me," why heaven's verdict outweighs earth's, and how the King who went first was vindicated.

The Persecuted: The Cost of Allegiance

Eight short courses on Matthew 5:3–12: what life looks like under the reign of the King who has come.