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Description: The Sermon on the Mount also isn't a set of instructions to follow. Jesus isn't say, try harder to be poor in spirit. Make yourself more weak. Mourn properly. Instead, what Jesus is doing is that he's describing the very people who are already closest to the kingdom of God. And so, the words of the beatitude are words of recognition, not requirements.

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Bellshill and Bothwell Parish Church

The Sermon on the Mount also isn't a set of instructions to follow. Jesus isn't say, try harder to be poor in spirit. Make yourself more weak. Mourn properly. Instead, what Jesus is doing is that he's describing the very people who are already closest to the kingdom of God. And so, the words of the beatitude are words of recognition, not requirements.