Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Every Christian, every grace

 You cannot choose which beatitudes you want to be true of your life, and leave the others to one side.  The Beatitudes come as a whole, not as a series of options.  Every Christian is intended to show every grace.  One beatitude flows into the next, as we have already seen:  the poor in spirit mourn for their sins, and as a result are marked by the meekness of those who know the truth about themselves in the presence of God.  Such men and women hunger and thirst for righteousness, and receive it.  Since they have been filled only because of the Lord's mercy to them, they become merciful to others.  
-Sinclair Ferguson, The Sermon on the Mount: Kingdom Life in a Fallen World (East Peoria, IL: Banner of Truth, 2009) pp. 35-36.

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