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Series: Sermon on the Mount

Bienaventurados Los Pobres en Espíritu

Pastor Tony Perez * Mateo 5:3 * 8/27/06

Intro: (Repaso).

Are you willing to really hear and obey what Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount?

Mat 7:24-27.

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Las bienaventuranzas son características internas que deben ser demonstradas en lo externo (Sant 2:17; Efe 2:10).

They will possess all of these graces.

These graces are inter-related... 1.

It takes all of these qualities, working in conjunction with one another 2. In this the passage is similar to 2 Pe 1:5-11 a.

Where various qualities are also listed b.

Where each are needed in conjunction to one another ("add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge...")

Cuarenta tiene que ver con casi todas las manifestaciones nuevas en la historia de los portentosos actos de Dios, especialmente los de salvación, por ejemplo el diluvio, la redención de Egipto, Elías y la era profética, el advenimiento de Cristo y el nacimiento de la iglesia.

Podemos mencionar los siguientes períodos de cuarenta días: las cataratas de agua durante el diluvio (Gn.

7.17); el envío del cuervo (Gn.

8.6); los ayunos de Moisés en el monte (Ex.

24.18; 34.28; Dt. 9.9); la exploración de la tierra de Canaán por los espías (Núm.

13.25); la oración de Moisés por Israel (Dt.

9.25); el desafío de Goliat (1 S. 17.16); el viaje de Elías a Horeb (1 R. 19.8); el tiempo que Ezequiel estuvo acostado sobre su lado derecho (Ez.

4.6); la predicación de Jonás a Nínive (Jon.

3.4); el tiempo que pasó Cristo en el desierto antes de su tentación (Mat.

4.2), y sus apariciones después de la resurrección (Hech.

1.3).

Con respecto al período de cuarenta años, la cifra general para una generación, podemos mencionar lo siguiente: las divisiones principales de la vida de Moisés (Hech.

7.23, 30, 36; Dt. 31.2);

la peregrinación del pueblo de Israel en el desierto (Ex.

16.35; Núm.

14.33; Jos.

5.6; Sal.

95.10); el modelo de servidumbre y liberación que se repite en la era de los jueces (por ejemplo Jue.

3.11; 13.1); los reinados de Saúl, David, y Salomón (Hech.

13.21; 2 S. 5.4; 1 R. 11.42); la desolación de Egipto (Ez.

29.11).

After 400 years of silence, many Jewish people believed that the kingdom would be ushered in only by a great war and force of arms.

They expected a Messiah with power and strength.

Jesus promises it for the “poor in spirit,” the “humble” or “meek” (5:5), the peacemakers (5:9).

As the eager crowds gathered around Jesus, they really didn't quite understand what they were about to hear.

They knew that this man was an extraordinary person.

They had heard of His miraculous power and radical teaching.

And they were hungry.

They were hungry for something more than the routine.

They wanted a word from God.

They wanted a word that would make a difference in their lives.

What they would hear would be a word unlike any they had ever heard.

The conventional wisdom held by our society at large is often at odds with Biblical wisdom.

God's wisdom and ways, more often than not, are diametrically opposed to and radically different from the current thinking of our secular society.

I. El Significado de Ser Pobre en Espiritu.

A. La Palabra “Pobre”

1.

No es pobreza material.

"No es vender todo e irse a un monasterio"

2. Ptōchos (poor) is from a verb meaning “to shrink, cower, or cringe,” as beggars often did in that day.

Classical Greek used the word to refer to a person reduced to total destitution, who crouched in a corner begging.

The word commonly used for ordinary poverty was penichros, and is used of the widow Jesus saw giving an offering in the Temple.

She had very little, but she did have “two small copper coins” (Luke 21:2).

She was poor but not a beggar.

One who is penichros poor has at least some meager resources.

3. --La palabra pobre habla de un mendigo.

--La misma palabra que se usa de Lázaro y el rico.

--La palabra de una persona totalmente dependiente de los regalos de otros.

--Personas que no podían funcionar normalmente en la sociedad.

Sin recursos personales.

--Espiritualmente el hombre esta vacío, es pobre y sin esperanza.

“describe la condición más desesperante, la absoluta destitución.

Se refiere al mendigo que depende de la bondad de otros para su existencia, uno que no tiene recursos propios.

B. La frase “pobre en espiritu” Es pobreza espiritual.

How this opening word struck the keynote of all the subsequent teaching of Him who was Himself born in a stable

Aparte de Cristo no hay nada, no se tiene nada y no se puede hacer nada (Juan 15:5).

que no confían en sí mismos como autosuficientes.

La humildad es la primera letra del “alfabeto cristiano”.”

Those who are poor in spirit realize that they have nothing spiritually.

They recognize that they have no relationship to God, no salvation, no connection to His Spirit, no power to live the Christian life, etc., so in desperation they do the very thing they needed to do the very thing they needed to do -- they throw themselves into the arms of Jesus and trust Him to enrich them with spiritual life.

To be poor in spirit means that we see our total spiritual poverty before God and our utter dependence upon Him.

Poverty of spirit must be our attitude toward ourselves.

We must see that we can do nothing to commend ourselves to God.

It must become clear to us that apart from Christ we are spiritually destitute.

We may be well educated, but we are spiritually ignorant.

We may be financially secure, but we are spiritually bankrupt.

We may be the president of a corporation, but without Christ we are on the spiritual unemployment line.

Your are "poor in spirit" when you acknowledge that you are in "spiritual bankruptcy" and come to Jesus and ask Him to credit His righteousness to your account (II Cor.

5:21; Rom. 4)

--The poor in spirit are not self-righteous (such people sense no need of God's grace)

--The poor in spirit are not blinded by religion (such people's religion pacifies their spirit, giving them a feeling of satisfaction)

--The poor in spirit are not those who attempt to gain Heaven by their works (to work for their salvation) (rather, they realize that they have nothing to offer God to appease His wrath or gain entrance into Heaven)

C. Es ser Humilde

It issues from the painful discovery that all my righteousnesses are as filthy rags.

1. Humility first

Jesus puts this beatitude first because humility is the foundation of all other graces, a basic element in becoming a Christian (Matt.

18:3–4).

Pride has no part in Christ’s kingdom, and until a person surrenders pride he cannot enter the kingdom.

The door into His kingdom is low, and no one who stands tall will ever go through it.

We cannot be filled until we are empty; we cannot be made worthy until we recognize our unworthiness; we cannot live until we admit we are dead.

We might as well expect fruit to grow without a tree as to expect the other graces of the Christian life to grow without humility.

We cannot begin the Christian life without humility, and we cannot live the Christian life with pride.

Humility must precede everything else

2. La humildad trae un entendimiento correcto de ti mismo.

Es lo opuesto de orgullo.

Vaciandote de ti mismo.

Prov 6:16; 14:3; 16:5, 18; 21:4; Sant.

4:6

--El único hombre que nunca puede aprender es el hombre que se cree que ya lo sabe todo.

--"Uno tiene que verse completamente necesitado para buscar ayuda."

3. La humildad trae un entendimiento correcto de Cristo.

- Cuando estamos preocupados con nosotros mismos, no podemos ver el gran valor de Cristo.