The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed (by healing) and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up and the poor have good news (the Gospel) preached to them. Matthew 11:5 AMP
The poor aren't made wealthy, they aren't given shelter or food or clothing. They're given the news that they are helpless. They are told that no Law will ever save them from their sin, that they are destined to be eternally separated from the God who created them. But then they are told that God is love, that love came down. God came down. He took the form of a man, Jesus Christ, and lived a sinless life. He served as the perfect sacrifice, taking to the cross and becoming our sin, so that we would no longer be enslaved to it, but instead be covered and renewed in the Lord Jesus. He rose again, securing life for all who believe in the power of His name. They are told that they will never die, that the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.
And that's worth a whole lot more than a house.
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