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<div class="SSN_title">"BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT"</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE LOGICAL ORDER OF THE BEATITUDES.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. This of necessity first.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. No one in the kingdom of heaven who is not "poor in..."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. This is an emptying whereas others a fullness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Must be emptying before filling.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. "This Child set for the fall and rising again of many."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Conviction, proceeds, conversion.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Forms important test for us.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Condemns idea that Sermon on Mount something I can do myself.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Just put sermon into practice and ring kingdom on earth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Here is a high mountain you must scale, No power.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Negative: Note as some translate, "Blessed in spirit are the poor."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Christ not commending poverty.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. May poor have a horrible spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Poverty does not mean spirituality.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Our Lord concerned with our spirit not financial statement.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Our attitude towards ourselves.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. "Pastor I lust can't go on fighting this any longer, I'm whipped."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. "Praise the Lord." Maybe now step back and let God do it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Contrast with worldly teaching. Self-confidence; self-reliance; you must believe in yourself.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. "I believe in myself. I am utterly and hopelessly lost apart from Christ; I could do nothing."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Education or knowledge does not make decent human beings.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. The emphasis in church upon personality.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE "POOR IN SPIRIT?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Negative.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Not diffident or nervous, not weak or lacking courage.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. You are not born "poor in spirit."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Some attempt to display poverty of spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Anxious to tell you how nothing or humble they are.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Curse of church for a time affected even gait.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Not a repression of personality.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Positive.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Gideon excellent example.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Moses.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. David, "Who am I that thou shouldest visit me?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Paul, a man endowed with natural talents and qualities, "our sufficiency is not of ourselves."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. An absence of pride.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. HOW DOES ONE BECOME POOR IN SPIRIT?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. By seeing God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. No man sees himself truly until he first sees God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Job.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. "Which of you convinceth me of unrighteousness?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. "My righteousness I hold fast." (27:6)</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">3. "I have heard of thee, but now I have seen thee, wherefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes." (42:5,6)</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. <a onClick="return mV('Isa',6,'1-5');">Isaiah 6:1-5</a>.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. "Then said I, woe is me, because I am undone because l am a man of unclean lips...for I have seen the King, the Lord of hosts."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Peter.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. <a onClick="return mV('Luk',5,8);">Luke 5:8</a>, "And when Peter saw that he fell at Jesus knees and said, Depart from me Lord for I am a sinful man."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. You do not begin by looking at yourself and saying, "I must change this."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. This is to trust in yourself that you can.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. "But we with open face beholding the glory of the Lord, are changed from glory to glory even by that same spirit."</div>
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