Jesus speaks to a large crowd on a hillside, with a vast landscape and water body in the background.

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Inspirational Sermon Illustrations on the Beatitudes

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A Comprehensive Picture

The beatitudes paint a comprehensive portrait of a Christian disciple. We see him [or her] first alone on his knees before God, acknowledging his spiritual poverty and mourning over it. This makes him meek or gentle in all his relationships, since honesty compels him to allow others to think of him what before God he confesses himself to be. Yet he is far from acquiescing in his sinfulness, for he hungers and thirsts after righteousness, longing to grow in grace and in goodness.