Blessed Part 4: Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness

This is the 4th post in a series exploring the Beatitudes and the Salt and Light passage at the beginning of Jesus’ “Sermon on the Mount” in Matthew 5. Before we turn attention to today’s Beatitude, here are 4 interpretive principles that I discussed in the first two posts in this series.

1. First, the Beatitudes can only be produced by the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer. In this sense, they are similar to the fruit of the Spirit (see Galatians 5:22-23) and the three cardinal virtues...