Radical Disciples – A Remnant Revolution

Blessed (happy, to be envied, and spiritually prosperous–with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the poor in spirit (the humble, who rate themselves insignificant), for theirs is the kingdom of heaven!

Happy are the poor? This goes against the worlds teachings – but Jesus is speaking of something deeper here than that of outward poverty. He is actually inviting us to be positioned to walk in holiness and happiness.

Not only is the call to walk in holiness towards ourselves, He is calling us to be positioned to release it into others lives:

You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste (its strength, its quality), how can its saltness be restored? It is not good for anything any longer but to be thrown out and trodden underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a peck measure, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your [z]moral excellence and your praiseworthy, noble, and good deeds and recognize and honor and praise and glorify your Father Who is in heaven.

It is actually in the place of spiritual poverty in the sense that you are emptied, that He may fill you up. It is the position of humbleness that allows Holy Spirit to begin the process of filling us the abundant holiness of our Lord.

The Lords teachings point out to us that we must be aware of the true way, warning against false prophets, exhorting us to follow after holiness. That we are aware of our own sinfulness and in such that we not only guilty but that we are completely helpless in regard to them, save His power to overcome them. It is with His inward filling of His holiness that we are able to apply the power of the cross, severing the power of a sinful nature – thus His infilling of His Spirit instill in us His nature, His holiness.

Thus the Kingdom is not only outward it is inward state as well, transplanted by the filling of Holy Spirit producing the fruits of the kingdom: righteousness, and peace, and love, and joy in the Holy Ghost, as well as the eternal kingdom, if we endure to the end.

For indeed we serve an Awesome God!!