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Jesus started His famous sermon with these words and they inhabit a place of great importance in understanding what it means to live in the Kingdom of God. 'Beatitude' means supreme blessedness, ultimate happiness, or a state of complete joy. The word comes from the Latin word “beatus”, which means blessed or happy. The interesting aspect of this is that a lot of the attributes that Jesus lists don't initially seem like things that lead to earthly happiness, but they are the fruit of Christian character that is rooted in God.
This series was thoughtfully designed to reflect the concept of spiritual refinement. The Beatitudes describe in tangible ways what it looks like to have the character of Christ not only deposited, but refined in us. The minerals pictured throughout this resource are shown both in their unrefined and refined states. They represent the process we enter into as believers to be sifted, cut, buffed, and polished by the things we encounter this side of eternity with the hope of eternal blessedness in mind.