Kingdom People

God always intended His people, the Church, to be a colony of heaven in the world.Jesus, the better Moses, taught us who His kingdom people are to be and what they do.The beatitudes are a description of who Jesus is.While Moses gave us God’s Law, our King Jesus fulfilled God’s Law on our behalf.Since Jesus isn’t like any other king, His people won’t be like other kingdoms.The poor in spirit are those who recognize their spiritual bankruptcy without God.When we see the reality of sin in ourselves and others, it causes us to mourn.When we have a true view of ourselves, sin, and God’s grace, we become meek.Kingdom people don’t only grieve over sin but crave God’s righteousness.If we crave things to be made right, we work to show mercy to those in need.We’re less concerned about being pretty on the outside as much as pure on the inside.Kingdom people work for peace even when people refuse to live at peace with us.Blessed are those who embody the way of King Jesus, for they will experience His kingdom come among them.We cannot become like Jesus with our strength but in recognizing our weakness.Every time we as the Church do not look like Jesus, it’s evidence that we’re trying to be the Church without Him.