Blessed are the people who recognize their inadequacies, their guilt, failure, helplessness, unworthiness, and emptiness haunts them and they grieve over their sin.

To be poor in spirit is to recognize your total and complete spiritual bankruptcy before God. It is knowing that you have nothing of worth to contribute to God.

Jesus said, "I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it"

He [Jesus] is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance...

Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness…

Unless we remember that Justification precedes Sanctification and that both are the work of God in and for us - the Sermon on the Mount can leave believers feeling hopelessly discouraged.

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

When Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

Jesus went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.