{"id":2144,"date":"2012-07-31T12:40:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T16:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2012-07-31T12:40:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T16:40:27","slug":"spiritually-bankrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2144","title":{"rendered":"Spiritually Bankrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cAnd he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: <span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cBlessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\u201d<\/span>\u201d \u2013 Matthew 5:2-3 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>In His opening statement in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus laid this bombshell on the awaiting crowd; \u201cBlessed are the poor in spirit\u2026\u201d\u00a0 Now, He wasn\u2019t using the term \u201cpoor\u201d in a material sense, but instead was referring to the fact that we\u2019re all spiritually bankrupt, and rely completely on the Grace of our Heavenly Father to complete and fulfill our lives.\u00a0 By humbling ourselves in that realization, we will indeed be Blessed.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: \u201cBlessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\u201d\u201d \u2013 Matthew 5:2-3 (ESV) In His opening statement in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus laid this bombshell on the awaiting crowd; \u201cBlessed are the poor in spirit\u2026\u201d\u00a0 Now, He wasn\u2019t using the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[3194,966,1180,916,2913,269,2912,2528],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-god","tag-gospel-of-matthew","tag-heavenly-father","tag-humble","tag-jesus","tag-poor-in-spirit","tag-sermon-on-the-mount"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-yA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}