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The Woes of the Rich, Happy, Fat, and Popular and the Blessings of the Poor, Sorrowful, Hungry, and Persecuted

Everyone is in the Blessings and Woes of Jesus Christ. The fate of all is determined by these pronouncements. Are you blessed? Are you cursed? You need to know that all the blessings are related. In parallel, all the woes are related.

Sean Michael Morris·Oct 29, 2026
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  • The Woes of the Rich, Happy, Fat, and Popular and the Blessings of the Poor, Sorrowful, Hungry, and Persecuted
  • Are You Rich, Happy, Fat and Popular?
  • Are You Poor, Sorrowful, Hungry, and Persecuted?
In This Article
  1. Are You Rich, Happy, Fat and Popular?
  2. Are You Poor, Sorrowful, Hungry, and Persecuted?
Everyone is in the Blessings and Woes of Jesus Christ. The fate of all is determined by these pronouncements. Are you blessed? Are you cursed? You need to know that all the blessings are related. In parallel, all the woes are related. The characteristics of these people are detailed in two opposite categories. The blessings and curses paint a portrait of the righteous and the wicked, so we can generally identify who is saved and who is unsaved.
Allow me to sum up the blessings and woes in two questions. This may come as a shock to you! Are you rich, happy, fat, and popular? Then you are cursed. Are you poor, sorrowful, hungry, and persecuted? Then you are blessed. This type of message would shock anyone in human history. We know that the sermons of Jesus Christ were shocking to the Jews of the first century. Read -7:29 and and decide for yourself.

Are You Rich, Happy, Fat and Popular?

“But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.” — Luke 6:24
“Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.” — Luke 6:25
“Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger.” — Luke 6:25
“Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.” — Luke 6:26

Are You Poor, Sorrowful, Hungry, and Persecuted?

“Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.” — Matt. 5:3
“Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the Kingdom of God.” — Luke 6:20
“Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” — Matt. 5:4
“Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.” — Luke 6:21
“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” — Matt. 5:6
“Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled.” — Luke 6:21
“Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” — Matt. 5:10
“Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.” — Luke 6:22-23
Everyone was shocked to hear these blessings and curses. Many were offended! But the humble asked questions and got answers as to the personal meaning and application of these divine pronouncements. Can you can see how the blessings and woes are related? We will examine this from two different perspectives: the World and the Bible. Perspective matters because the World and God are in disagreement and in contradiction. The biblical word used to describe this opposition is enmity.
“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.” — Rom. 8:5-8
“…know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” — James 4:4
Anyone can see the enmity that exists between the blessed and cursed groups of people being described by Jesus Christ. This should lead us to discover the enmity that exists between the World and God. This enmity originates from the fleshly nature of lost sinners.
“Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.” — Matt. 12:33-34
The evil nature of sinners produces their thoughts, words, and deeds. Sinners who disagree with God believe that rich, fat, and popular people are happy in the world because they are enjoying life. Saints who agree with God believe that poor, hungry, sorrowful, and persecuted people are happy in the Lord because knowing Jesus Christ is better than life Discovering the difference between these two ways of thinking will allow you to distinguish between the holy and profane, and the clean and the unclean.
“And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.” — Ezek. 44:23
“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” — 2 Cor. 6:17-18
The differences in perspective are black and white, but most people see grey. Sinners are sleepwalking into hellfire! But the Son of God knows exactly how to wake people up from sleep. The great miracle worker of the 1st century stood up before crowds of people and cried divine pronouncements like, “Woe unto you that laugh now!” and, “Blessed are they that mourn” This got their attention. Immediately, the thoughtless people stopped laughing and started thinking, “How can this be?” And this question will lead to other important realizations.
Sinners must come to realize that the whole world is lying in wickedness but God is perfect righteousness All the world is wretched and guilty, but God is sinless and holy The courtroom of public opinion is at enmity with the courtroom of Heaven. You know the way of the world: sinners want to be seen, honored, justified, esteemed, loved, and praised by their peers in a godless world, and most of them don’t even know that this is a bad thing.
“But all their works they do for to be seen of men…” — Matt. 23:5
“How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?” — John 5:44
“And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.” — Luke 16:15
“If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” — John 15:19
“For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.” — John 12:43
You can see how this is relevant to the Beatitudes of Jesus Christ. Rich, happy, fat, and popular people are seen, honored, justified, esteemed, loved, and praised by the world. Poor, sorrowful, hungry, and persecuted people are unknown, dishonored, condemned, despised, hated, and mocked by the world. This is the perspective of the world, and some generations are even worse than others. Meanwhile, God looks down from Heaven in disdain.
“There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness. There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.” — Prov. 30:12-14
The world is evil, corrupt, and polluted, but its people believe themselves to be pure This delusion comes from the Devil, who has the power to deceive the whole world This is frightening because the people who are deceived do not even know that they are deceived. That is the nature of deception! The world trusts in its own wisdom – fleshly, carnal, and worldly wisdom! – even though this wisdom has further alienated sinners from God and by it sinners cannot come to know God Making things worse, the world has invaded into the Church.
“They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.” — 1 John 4:5-6
Prosperity preachers are saying that the rich are blessed because they have enough money to enjoy themselves in life. Rich people covetously pursue success and then brag about their “blessings” and boast in their own heart’s desire. I can hear them laughing now as they boast and brag in their congregations! And I tremble to think how God looks down in disdain.
“For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.” — Ps. 10:3
God abhors prosperity preachers because they bless the covetous by promising them wealth, power, and prosperity. Sinners are attracted to the Church because they want God’s help to perform their own covetous practices in life. A system of gifts, tithes, and bribes has been invented by prosperity preachers to turn this process into a perpetual cycle that keeps cursed people in bondage. Lustful and covetous sinners keep coming back to “Church” like people addicted to gambling are hoping to win the lottery.
“Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:” — 2 Pet. 2:14
God hates the sound of prosperous people laughing and celebrating prosperity. “For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity” Prosperity preachers are saying, “Blessed are they that laugh now!” They ignore the blessings and woes of Jesus Christ, who said, “Woe unto you that laugh now!” God is calling wealthy sinners to weep and howl in repentance, as it is written, “Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.” God is calling all men everywhere to biblical repentance.
“Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.” — James 4:8-10
“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.” — 2 Cor. 7:10
The blessed ones feel their need for God and salvation from sin, and therefore they “mourn” and “weep” over sin in biblical repentance The Lord spoke the truth, when He said, “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted” They shall be comforted. The gift of the Holy Ghost is called “the Comforter” Receiving this gift is the effect of salvation. The work of redemption that was performed in the death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ is personally experienced by sinners as they receive the gift of the Holy Ghost The Comforter brings comfort as the Performer of salvation. The Comforter brings comfort in the establishment of righteousness within the soul Jesus Christ also called the Holy Ghost “the promise of My Father” He ascended so that this promise might be “shed” upon sinners who repent and believe in the Gospel
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