Citizenship

Kingdom of GodCitizenship in the

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven has come near.”

Matt. 3:2

“The beatitudes are not talking about eight different kinds of people. Rather, these are eight qualities and characteristics of ONE type of people: people who enter the Kingdom of God.”

The BeatitudesMatthew 5

Crossing into the Kingdom

The Beatitudes:

Blessed are the Poor in Spirit

Blessed are those who Mourn

Blessed are the Meek

Matt. 5:6

Crossing into the Kingdom

The Beatitudes:

4. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”

= “approved”

RighteousnessHunger and Thirst for

dikaiosune

“There is none righteous, no not one.”Rom. 3:10

= “an outside

righteousness, not one of

our own making.”

RighteousnessHunger and Thirst for

dikaiosune

“Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Matthew 5:20

“The heart the gospel is that if you want to enter the Kingdom, then you have to admit that you don’t have a righteousness of your own, but that God alone

can give you his righteousness, And when you ask for that, you

enter the Kingdom of God.”

Crossing Over

Tim Keller

“For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.”

Paul’s RighteousnessPhilippians 3

Welcome to the Kingdom

The Beatitudes:

Poor

Mourn

Meek

Righteous