Dust & Discipline: Lesson Six The Beatitudes as a Manifesto

How Jesus Declared the Values of the Kingdom

Dec 29, 2025

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Illustration of a first century Jewish Rabbi seated on a hillside teaching disciples, overlooking a Judean landscape, symbolizing the Beatitudes as a declaration of kingdom values and faithful living.

When Jesus opened His teaching with the Beatitudes, He was not offering poetic encouragement or private spiritual comfort. He was making a public declaration.

In the first century Jewish world, this kind of teaching functioned as a manifesto. It announced the values of a movement, the posture of a people, and the kind of life that marked those who belong…

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