Opressed and Blessed 9.22.17

by Alice Decker

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”  Matthew 5:3 Jesus taught that the world seen from God’s viewpoint is tilted in favor of the oppressed. This teaching emerges in the Sermon on the Mount and other statements of Jesus: “the first will be last” (Matt. 19:30; Mark 10:31; Luke 13:30), […]