One Greek word in Matthew 5 changes the entire passage. Today we put the whole sermon together, find out what blessed actually means, and discover who the kingdom already belongs to.

In this letter

- Makarios and what it actually means — fully alive, not fortunate

- A walk-through of all eight Beatitudes with Greek behind the key ones

- The vertical-horizontal structure of the list (posture toward God, then others)

- The bookend phrase theirs is the kingdom of heaven that wraps the whole passage

- Jesus's shift from blessed are they to blessed are you in verses 11-12

- The connection back to Hebrews 11 and the family of faith

- A direct word for the empty-handed, the rule-keepers, and the persecuted

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