Pleaseturn with me in your Bibles to Matthew, chapter 5. We continue our study in The Beatitudes, the first portion of the Sermon on the Mount. We have said so far in our study of the first five beatitudes that these blessings are blessings upon certain aspects of Christian character. Jesus describes for us, incidentally as He gives these blessings, what a Christian looks like. And this, simultaneously, is an encouragement to us as we see what the Holy Spirit makes us to be and, at the same time, it is a challenge to us because we know in our own hearts how long we have to go but that, in and of itself, presses us right back into the arms of our Savior which is right where we need to be. And so we hear the Word of the living God beginning in Matthew 5 beginning with verse 1-10. Our Lord…