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Harriet: Blessed Are the Persecuted Liberators - Black Church (Matthew 5:3-12)

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Harriet Tubman lived beatitude paradox—blessed while persecuted, mourning slavery yet comforted by visions, hungering for righteousness that would be filled. The Black Church has claimed the Beatitudes as survival text: "Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you"—THIS is our history. Harriet was poor, mourning, meek, merciful, pure, peacemaking (in God's way), persecuted—and blessed. The Beatitudes describe the marginalized whom God blesses. Know you are blessed in persecution; the kingdom belongs to such as these.

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Matthew 5:3-12

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