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Flourishing are the ones persecuted on account of righteousness because the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing: A Theological Commentary by Jonathan Pennington; The Sermon on the Mount: Restoring Christ’s Message to the Modern Church by Charles Quarles; The Message of the Sermon on the Mount by John R. W. Stott
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.”
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing: A Theological Commentary by Jonathan Pennington; The Sermon on the Mount: Restoring Christ’s Message to the Modern Church by Charles Quarles; A Harmony of the Gospels by John Calvin
Flourishing are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness because they will be satisfied
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing: A Theological Commentary by Jonathan Pennington; Christian Counter Culture: The Message of the Sermon on the Mount by John Stott; Sermon on the Mount by Sinclair Ferguson
Flourishing are the meek because they will inherit the earth.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing: A Theological Commentary by Jonathan Pennington; The Sermon on the Mount: Matthew 5-7 (Expositional Commentary) by James Montgomery Boice; Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller; Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church by N.T. Wright
Jesus invites his people to experience true flourishing through mourning.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing: A Theological Commentary by Jonathan Pennington; Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Tim Keller; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible: Matthew by Stanley Hauerwas
Blessed are the poor in spirit because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
SV Study Bible; The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing by Jonathan Pennington; The Sermon on the Mount: Restoring Christ’s Message to the Modern Church by Charles Quarles; Studies in the Sermon on the Mount by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Jesus the Christ delivers his authoritative vision for human flourishing to his disciples.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; A Biblical Theology of Human Flourishing by Jonathan Pennington; The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing: A Theological Commentary by Jonathan Pennington; Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible: Matthew by Stanley Hauerwas; Authority and Flourishing by Josh Kouri
All born again believers have certainties and responsibilities.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible
