I cannot earn my salvation: “Salvation is something so great that no one can earn it. You can indeed manage this! I will help you.’ And then the poor in spirit will give it another try.” With God I can manage anything: “We constantly make the experience of our own weakness, and this could very quickly lead us to say, ‘I will never manage this!’ Then God comes and says, ‘I know you better than you know yourself. I trust Him.’ And suddenly, they are no longer afraid of the future. The explanation is simply: ‘God loves me. God has everything under control: “Those who are poor in spirit will not seek any explanation. I will not make any mistake if I am obedient to the Lord.” God knows what is good and what is evil: “If I follow the path of God, I will always be going the right way. Only when a person has fellowship with God can he be completely human, can he be happy.” I need You always: “Of course, one can also live on this earth without God-but one cannot be saved in that case. Anyone can be poor in spirit,” the Chief Apostle explained, and he went on to use seven core thoughts to illustrate. “Being poor in spirit is a condition for attaining salvation. The same applies to both poor and rich: it all boils down to having the right relationship with God. There are also wealthy people who will enter into the kingdom of God.” And last, but not least: “Need, poverty, and suffering are not prerequisites for attaining salvation. Need is not a carte blanche.” No one can use their sufferings to claim a right to compensation. Even if you are poor-and remain poor-you can still enter into the kingdom of heaven. This goes to show: “Your poverty is not an obstacle to salvation either. God loves you and cares for you.” It is all the same whether you are rich or poor “You are not forgotten by God, and your poverty is not a punishment. Jesus thereby wanted to show that the gospel applies very specifically to the poor,” said the Chief Apostle. “The first sentence in His first great sermon was addressed to the poor. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” It was with this familiar Bible passage from Matthew 5: 3 that Chief Apostle Jean-Luc Schneider served the brethren in Norderstedt (Northern Germany) on 10 November 2019.
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