References: Romans 7

Poverty is often looked upon in society as a bad thing - right? It's seen as a deprivation of food or clothes or money; therefore people hold the common supposition that to be poor is to be in want.

Jesus makes a statement that should radically change our thinking about this issue. When He says, "Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven," He is erasing our notions of prosperity and opening our minds to a new perspective - a divine perspective - that there is a kind of poverty which actually makes us rich! Download Transcript