We read in Matthew chapter 5:3; blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. This word blessed is used in each verse through verse 11. This is not telling us that we will or can be blessed, but rather that we are already in a blessed state or a blessed condition.

These words are the words of Jesus Christ, and these words are pure words, because they proceeded forth out of the mouth of such a one that is holy and just in all of his ways. Blessed are the poor in spirit. It does not say poor in these worldly goods, but poor in spirit. Christ is talking about a humble spirit, one that feels to be a beggar, not just a beggar, but also a pauper. This is someone that realizes that he or she is a sinner in the presence of a most holy God. Not only a sinner, but also the vilest of all sinners. One that feels and knows in his own heart that his sins condemn his spirit, soul, and body to a devils hell forever and forever.

No matter how hard he tries to redeem himself from the curse of sin, the further away from God he feels. He sets his mind to keep from sinning, but finds that when he would do good, evil is present with him. Paul says; for I know that in me, that is, in my flesh dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me: but how to perform that which is good I find not. Then he says later; O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

If this is your experience in feeling the guilt of sin in your life, feeling that if death was to come today, surely you would be cast into a lake of fire and brimstone that burns forever, and justly so because you have sinned against God, against one that is supreme deity itself. Then Jesus says; blessed are the poor in spirit. Christ is telling you that you are a blessed person, and that yours is the kingdom of Heaven. He is saying that he has performed a good work in you, and will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

We read the words of David in Psalms 34:17 through 19; The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: But the Lord delivereth him out of them all. Do you realize that the only righteousness that you have is in and through the blood of Jesus Christ?

Therefore if you feel to be loaded down with the grief of sin, be thankful that the Lord has revealed to you what a vile sinner you really are. This is an evidence of the blessed condition that you are in. A child of Grace will never understand what Grace is until he comes to the point in his life that he realizes how vile and undone that he really is.

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Not will be the Kingdom of Heaven, but is the Kingdom of Heaven. Oh! What a blessing it is to know that Christ fulfilled all of God's Divine and Holy laws, and God is satisfied. Christ did what we could not do. He was the perfect sacrifice for sin. He poured out his blood, and his blood covered our sins. Now when God looks at us, he looks at us through the blood of Jesus Christ. He does not see your sins; he only sees your perfection, which is in Christ Jesus. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. AMEN.