Blessed Are: The First Four Beatitudes

In Part 1 of The Beatitudes, Rick Gonzales opens the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5) and walks through the first four blessings Jesus gives us. He frames the Beatitudes as a gift from Jesus: a blueprint for discipleship, a path of inward transformation, a promise of future reward, and a road to spiritual significance. Along the way, he unpacks the poor in spirit as the quiet strength of humility, mourning as a heartfelt sorrow over sin that leads to comfort and restoration, meekness as strength under control, and hunger and thirst for righteousness as a life of integrity that is above reproach.