It's great to be here with all of you.
Today, we have a wonderful crowd as has been mentioned.
It is Mother's Day, we're very thankful for recognizing mothers
and we recognize them everyday there, that special in our life.
I'm honored to be your speaker and I hope that what we have to
consider for a little while this morning would be encouraging to
you and edifying to you in some way.
This morning, we're continuing our series on the great Sermon
on the Mount. And as I've said, many times, it
was the greatest sermon ever preached.
We talked about the reasons why I believe it was the greatest
sermon ever. Preached will not go into that
this morning, but in particular, the part of The Sermon on the
Mount, that we're going to continue to study, is the
Beatitudes in the Beatitudes cover, the first 12 verses of
The Gospel, according to Matthew chapter 5, And today, our sermon
is to be attitudes part 3. Let's just noticed very briefly
what we've noticed in the first two parts.
I'm going to very brief about this in review but they all flow
together so we have to bring them up.
This is what Jesus said when he began this great sermon.
He first said, blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the
Kingdom of Heaven. If you want to go to heaven, you
have to be poor in spirit. And we talked about what it
means to be poor in spirit being poor in spirit.
Literally means I am destitute of spirit.
I am nothing without God from a spiritual perspective.
I'm nothing without Jesus. I need Jesus.
In my life, I have a sin problem.
I don't know what in the world's wrong with that has a wonderful
thing. What you're saying is you're not
saying that I am some weakling somewhere.
You're saying this, I have no strength except it comes from
God, that is the source of my strength, and from a spiritual
perspective, I am spiritually destitute without God.
I need the Savior got a sin problem that leads us to number
two, Then Jesus said, blessed are they that mourn mourn over
what mourn over those since the personal infractions that we
have against God? And I got to say something about
guilt, I know we live in a society of people today that
don't want us to be guilty about anything.
But guilt is good. Perpetual guilt is bad.
God does not want us to live in a state of Perpetual guilt.
He gave us a plan. Notice how it works, I'm poor in
spirit. I got a sin problem, I got to do
something about it. There's a plan.
I obey the gospel I'm baptized for the remission of my sins.
I Rise to walk in newness of life.
I'm forgiven and therefore I am comforted, that's great stuff
but there's more What about after we obey the gospel?
You know what you're going to do?
You're going to mess up. You're going to send in your
life. Everybody since 1st, John 1 and
verse 9, if you confess your sins, he's faithful.
And just to forgive you of your sins and cleanse, you of all
unrighteousness, even the contamination of that sin will
be removed, great stuff. I'm forgiven again when with
Godly sorrow and repentance. I asked for forgiveness, I'm
comforted because I'm forgiven, but then there's number three.
What about the things that we habitually struggle with
everyday? A lot of our struggles are the
same things that we fall back to because those are our
weaknesses. What about that?
There's a plan for that too. Love this James 5:16 confess
your faults, one to another and pray one for another that you
may be healed. The effective fervent prayer of
a righteous man avails much healed forgiving comforted and
one more The context of the passage is sin, personally,
fractions against God morning. Over those sins.
But what about the things that we mourn over in life?
What about the Christian morning over the injustices in the
world? What about all the bad stuff?
That's just really not fair. What about that?
The child of God is also comforted?
Why? Because we know that God is
ultimately in control. Wonderful, stuff!
Are you seeing the picture? Now, we have the proper
relationship with God, and now it gives us a third thing that
we have to have. It is the mental disposition
that every child of God, must have to go to heaven.
And that is the spirit of meekness.
Meekness you remember is not weakness.
It is the epitome, it is the ultimate strength.
Jesus says, come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden
and I will give you rest, take my yoke upon you and learn of me
for, I am what I am meek and lowly at heart and you shall
find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my
burden is light. Having a state of meekness, by
the way, is the idea of being unassuming.
It is a making a choice to put yourself aside but the And
others first in your life. And I got to say this too, it's
not weakness, its strength, it gives you the perseverance and
staying power and courage to make it to the end.
That's all part of meekness. Now, Jesus says, you got to rid
yourself of all your self-righteousness as our
brother prayed in our prayer. I am nothing without God.
I got a gigantic void in my life.
God blesses those that fill that void with his righteousness and
in order to fill that void with his righteousness you have to
hunger and thirst after it. And Jesus says As if you do
that, you will be filled, wonderful stuff.
And that's through the word of God.
Remember we talked about that word filled, interesting, word.
It's a word that actually is a word that's used to describe the
fattening of animals in the stall.
You got the word of God, you need nothing else.
That's how you find out about God's righteousness and you feel
it yourself with the word of God, okay?
That's the first four Beatitudes that covers through verse 6 of
Matthew, Chapter 5 and now we come to verse 7.
All these are building on one another.
All these are intermingling with one another and this is what
Jesus says in Matthew 5 and verse 7.
Here, it is. Blessed are The merciful.
I got to tell you something. Do not underestimate the
importance of having Mercy to other people.
Do not become unmerciful to others in your life.
Do not think that you kind of get it in nobody else does, or
maybe if somebody else is a little weaker than you are or
struggling or babe in Christ, and you're wondering why they
just don't get it, be very careful.
Have mercy. Have mercy.
I'm going to make a couple bold statements here, both statement.
Number one. If you're going to be a citizen
in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, you must not should you must
show Mercy to others. Bold statement, number two, if
you can't show Mercy to other people, you are not poor in
spirit. And Jesus says, if you want to
go to heaven, you got to be poor in spirit.
If you're not, merciful, you're not pouring Spirit me, show you
what I mean. One scholar said it like this,
those who in poverty of spirit recognize their need of mercy
and are led to show Mercy to other people as well.
Citizenship in the kingdom comes with God's mercy, through his
son. Jesus Christ, notice how it all
works. It begins at Ephesians chapter 2
beginning in verse 4. But God who is rich in Mercy
because of his great love with which he loved us, even when we
were dead in trespasses made us alive together, with Christ by
Grace, you have been saved. This is what God has done for
us. Now, please get this.
Mercy, love, kindness, forgiveness.
And Grace all go together. They're all linked together.
That's what God has done for us through.
Jesus Christ's Mercy. Love kindness forgiveness and
Grace all, go hand-in-hand. So, because of that and because
of our appreciation for that, there is a law of reciprocation.
We have to be the same way to other people.
Notice what Jesus said in Matthew 6.
Beginning, in verse 14, for, if you forgive men, their
trespasses, your heavenly father will also forgive you, but if
you do not forgive men, their trespasses, neither will your
father, forgive your trespasses. So When we receive these
blessings from God, don't you think it ought to kind of give a
little memory jogger? What's been done for us and
appreciate that so much, that we're willing to extend that to
somebody else too. I'm going to say some more about
forgiveness in just a minute. But let me just say this first,
you know, the amazing thing is when Jesus was speaking about
Mercy, he is speaking to people that lived in a Roman world and
the people that lived in a Roman World.
New very, very little about Mercy.
In fact, the Roman world was characterized by Conquest
domination and human and Justice Mercy, was viewed.
As a sign of weakness. It was viewed as a sign of
unmanned leanest. One, Roman philosopher said
this, Mercy is the disease of the Soul.
I can't even imagine living in such a Time.
One scholar. Said it, like this, though.
If you don't understand the concept of Mercy, understand
this to despise Mercy is to glorify brutality.
It's the flip side of that. Now remember what Jesus did in
Luke chapter 23. It starts back in the Garden of
Gethsemane. He says, my soul is exceeding
sorrowful even unto death. He prays to his father, three
times. If it be possible, let this cup
pass from me. But not my will, but thy will be
done. Finally, they determine resolve
if there's no other way except I drink it.
Your will be done. We know the story.
He's beaten and scourged a horrible mock trial.
He's taking a got this brow, he's nailed to the cross.
You remember what Jesus said? He could have felt anything and
said anything but this is what Jesus did.
He said, father, forgive them. For they know not what they do.
You know what? Jesus did when he was on the
cross. Because of Mercy.
He forgave them. Now I got to tell you something,
folks, my whole life, I've heard people say two things my whole
life. I'm not going to forgive until
they beg my forgiveness. I've heard that Number two, I'm
not allowed to forgive until they repent.
Do you know that none of those things are in the Bible?
Book chapter verse, let me have it and it in there.
What's in there is God doesn't forgive without repentance,
we're not talking about God, weird about you.
Did you know that you could forgive someone of anything?
You want to forgive them up for any reason you want to do it, it
is never ever wrong to forgive. And by the way, there's a
wonderful blessing or a positive benefit.
In forgiving someone that has wronged you, even though they
have not asked what you're saying is.
I'm not going to be negatively influenced by what you've done
to me anymore. I'm going to let it go.
And people that say, I'm not going to let him off the hook
that easy. No, you're not letting them off
the hook, you're letting you off the hook.
Let It Go. What a better way to live in it.
What about Steven? They're stoning Stephen to
death. He looks up into the heavens in
the Bible, says the heavens were opened.
And he saw Jesus standing on the right hand of God.
And Stephen said Lord lay not this sin to their charge.
Now they still had to answer to God.
Don't misunderstand me. What I'm saying is Steven,
forgave why? He was merciful.
He showed Mercy. All right, I'm gonna get very
specific and very practical. I love specific, I love
practical. Why would you do it?
What is the Practical benefit of doing this?
Jesus says, blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain
Mercy. All right.
Those who show Mercy or promised a measure in return And that's
witnessed by the way, into weighs practically speaking,
those who show Mercy are probably going to get it from
other people at least within measure.
And I got to say, if your merciful, you may be the most
merciful person in the world, it doesn't mean everybody's going
to treat you that way. It doesn't mean that, but you
are going to see the Promise there.
There is a promise that you're going to, at least receive a
measure of it. You know what I'm talking about.
If you're an unmerciful person, by the way, nobody showing you
Mercy. This is the way life is, but if
you extend Mercy, Two other people.
You will at least receive a measure in return in a practical
sense. Here's the greatest blessing of,
although when it comes from God, you're not going to receive it
within measure. You going to get it without
measure? And that's the most important
part. If you show Mercy to others,
you'll get Mercy from God in James chapter 2 verse 13.
Look at this for judgment is without Mercy to the one who has
shown, no mercy. And then it says Mercy triumphs
over judgment. What does that mean?
The word triumph in the new King, James is the word rejoices
in the Old King James, and it means this, it means to Glory
against to exalt over or boast oneself to the injury of
according to mr. Thayer the me.
Meaning of this verse is very similar to First.
John chapter 4 and verse 18 said perfect love cast out fear of
the judgment. folks, when a Christian is live Faithfully,
And has showed Mercy. He has nothing to fear in the
Judgment two things, though, live faithfully and shown mercy.
And by the way, we say live Faithfully, it's everything
encapsulated in that we don't have time to go into all that.
Live faithfully and show Mercy. You have nothing to fear in the
Judgment, it's only when a Christian has lived unfaithfully
or has been unmerciful that he must fear.
Robertson said this Mercy triumphs or boast against the
threat of judgment because it leaves the Judgment with nothing
to condemn. All right.
As it is with everything else in our Christian Life, Mercy must
demonstrate itself in action. It must it's not just an
attitude of the heart. It's an extension of the hand,
James 1:27, a very familiar passage pure and undefiled
religion before God and the father is this to visit the
orphans and widows in their trouble and to keep oneself
unspotted, from the world. So, what's the point?
The point is this, we have to be merciful, right?
We just said that, we get it. But God doesn't need our Mercy.
We do. Other people do.
So if we want Mercy from God, we have to extend that Mercy to
other people. How do you do that with your
attitude? And your actions and I'm going
to make a point about attitude. Please.
You may say, I don't do bad things to people and that may be
true. You may be the most wonderful
person that never does bad things to people.
I'm talking to all of us now because we can all fall short.
We can all fall into that Trap, please, listen to me.
Let's all of us, me too. Watch our attitudes.
And don't ever have the attitude.
It could never happen to me. be careful as the Bible says, take
heed, lest you also be tempted Because when we think it could
never happen to us, and we have that mentality, guess what?
We just messed up. We just send don't have that
condescending attitude. That is an unmerciful.
Attitude Mercy is always demonstrated an action by
attitudes and actions as well. And God deals with us is in the
same way and that's why we got to be.
So careful. So Jesus says, blessed are the
merciful for they shall obtain mercy and then he says this in
verse 8, he said Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see
God? This is so important
Christianity. Please get this has to be more
than an external display of piety.
It has to include inner substance.
We've talked about the heart many times.
I'm going to a little bit of a different, maybe a little
different spin today, may be a little different things that
maybe I'm not spoke about. We're going to talk about
actually how this is to because I think everybody wants a pure
heart, right? We all want that, let's talk to
her. Yeah, I want that for you talk
about how you get it. How do you get a pure heart?
How do you know if you have one and how do you get it?
Well, first of all, Jesus says, blessed are the pure in heart.
For they shall see God, it has to be intercept status.
It has to debt, has to manifest itself from what's on the
inside. After instructing, his followers
to be merciful. He now addresses the proper
motivation behind the act. So having a pure heart, is the
motivation behind the ACT. The Pharisees and the scribes
were notorious for outward. Signs of piety.
Outward shows of piety, look at me, their motives were wrong. if
your motive is wrong and it comes from a wrong place and if
it comes from being patted on the back or getting the
recognition of men, Jesus says, in another passage you have your
reward meaning you're not getting anything from God,
whatever pat on the back man, gave you, that's all you're
going to get when the motive is wrong, in Matthew chapter 23, I
don't have time to go into that, we study this in the past but
very briefly, The scribes and Pharisees were all about going
about keeping the Traditions. Keeping the law for the wrong
reason to be seen of men. and Jesus says, on the outside, what
you are, you are like whitewashed sepulchres briefly
now briefly briefly, After the spring rains you remember they
would come with the lime powder. They'd mix it with water and
they would paint the grapes in Jerusalem before the Passover.
Why they didn't want to be ceremonially unclean for
touching a grave before the Passover.
So people would come in I read historians said they would come
into Jerusalem and all of these beautiful Graves would dot the
countryside and on the outside they be beautiful and glistening
and shining in the sun right? We know that what did Jesus say?
Oh but inside your Dead Man's Bones.
You know why? Didn't have Pure Heart.
It wasn't the right motive. You're just whitewashed
sepulchers. And that's what happens when
your desires to be seen of men. Jesus rebukes such in purity of
heart and ironically, by looking for men's, praise the Pharisees,
missing God, one scholar said it like this.
There's is the fragile reward of Earthly recognition and not the
Eternal reward. Of God's abiding, presence.
I got a taste of this congregation is filled with
people that do a lot of wonderful things for other
people acts of service. And that is wonderful.
And I know for a fact because I know you, you don't do it to get
the praise, the glory, or the Pats on the back.
I know that of you. So now, I'm going to make this
next Point, show you the scripture.
I'm not talking to you. I think my people here, my my
brothers and sisters in Christ. Here are not guilty of this.
But this is what Jesus threw out there and we need to be careful.
This is what happens when you do things to be seen of men is what
Jesus says. So when you're going to do great
things, great do it. But in Matthew 6, beginning in
verse 1, take heed that you do not do your charitable Deeds
before men to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward
from your father in Heaven. Therefore when you do a
charitable deed do not stand, do not sound a trumpet.
Before you as the Hypocrites, do in the synagogues and in the
streets that they may have Glory from men, are sure that I say to
you, they have their a reward. Okay.
The blasting of the trumpet, you remember this, there was those
13 trumpet shape coffers that come to the conference in the
treasury. They rich people put the money
in, right? They would bring a trumpet ear
and blast the trumpet, look what I'm doing.
The Lord was so practical. Don't Blow Your Horn when you're
doing you giving, don't sound the trumpet to be seen of men,
just do the deed. That's pure in heart for the
right motive, for the right reason.
Okay. Jesus says, those that are truly
pure in heart, this is wonderful.
If you want to see God, you got to be pure in heart.
Jesus says, blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.
Now you're the picture here is of a subject Desiring the
office, or the extremely desired, the audience with this
King and spiritually. Speaking Fowler said this those
who come into God's presence are not necessarily those who
meticulously perform, but those who are personally pure.
Now, I got to tell you this. If you are personally pure, it
will manifest itself in performance.
I'm not saying we need to not perform for the Lord.
I'm not saying we that the outwards Stuff doesn't matter.
I didn't say that. What I'm saying is those who
come into God's presence and have a relationship with God.
And those that are going to see God, one time someday are not
those. That necessarily just check the
boxes and meticulously perform one thing after another guy, got
it. I'm in.
It's those that are pure inside. Those that are changed inside.
Where Christ is formed in them. Let's notice what James says
about this in James 4. And 8.
How do you have a pure heart? I want to have one, don't you?
How do you have it? James 4:8 draw near to God and
He will draw near to you. That's number one, but we're
going to get to what that actually means in just a moment.
So I'm going to tell you what it does.
Not mean. Drawing Near to God is not just
somebody that says I love God and talks about God and says
words of Praise about God, but lives their life, any way they
want to live but they feel as though they have a relationship
with God. So they're just speaking about
God and they feel like I'm drawing near to him because of
that. That's not what it means to draw
near to God. But here's the thing.
If I want God to be near me, I have to draw near to him.
How do I do that? To have a pure heart.
I have to draw near to God the word drawn near is this.
It conveys the thought of entering into communion with God
as acceptable worshippers if I want to have a relationship with
God and I want to draw near to God.
So he draws near to me. I have to be an acceptable
worshipper of his. That's number one. and, you
know, in the church, We are a kingdom of priests.
That's what we are. You know, that means practically
speaking. That means every Christian has
not only the ability but the responsibility of bringing
spiritual sacrifices before God, and that's through our life.
That's through our life that's through worship.
Every Christian is a priest. According to 1st Peter, 2, and
verse 5. So as we approach God In
Worship, it's going to Aid Us in overcoming the world number one,
but number two, it's going to help us with a pure heart.
If somebody says, well, I'm struggling with my Pure Heart.
Well, maybe it's because they're not Drawing Near to God.
How do you draw near to God as an acceptable worshipper of him?
But there's more. Then he says this.
You got to cleanse your hands. The word cleanse means to free
from the defilement of sin and false to purify from wickedness,
according to Thayer. Now let's get practical.
You know what this means, folks. This just means this if I really
want to draw near to God and I want to have a pure heart, I
want all that stuff, I got to remove the simple stuff in my
life and any time, the word hands is used and that's the
reason it's used here. By the way, hands is a figure of
Deeds. So if I'm doing Deeds that are
sinful, I need to stop doing those deeds and that's called
cleansing. My hands.
You know, at some point in time, forgiveness is about is endless.
If we repent every time and ask God to forgive us, that is true.
But at some time, at some point, we need to make the determined
resolve. I'm not going to do that
anymore. That's called cleansing your
hands, removing the sinful deed in your life.
Take it away. Stop doing it.
You've heard me say this before? My dad got sick and tired of me
doing the same stuff over and over by me.
He says, why don't you be sorry before you do it?
Ouch. He was right.
Be sorry before you do it. Cleanse your hands.
Remove the evil Deeds. That's number two.
That's what's required. Now, the idea here, by the way,
the illusion goes back to the practice of the priests in
approaching God, in Exodus chapter 30, washing their hands
carefully in the Tabernacle, but the cleansing from dirt was a
ritual foreshadowing of figurative cleansing that
Christians must do to approach God and that is get the sins out
of our life. Hands are symbolic of Deeds.
Okay, then us. What else do we got to do?
Then you got to purify your heart.
Under the Old Law, they were concerned about ceremonially
being ceremonially clean around the time of the Passover, as
we've already noticed. But here we're not talking about
being ceremonially clean. We're talking about being
morally clean from sin purifying, our hearts.
That's the inner man. So how does it all work?
I want to have a pure heart, I want to see God, that's what
Jesus said. Here's how you do, it cleanse
your hands and your Deeds, change your life, remove the
evil deeds and the sinful things in your life.
Remove those things purify, your hearts, your inner life and
approach. God, acceptably and acceptable
worship and you will have a pure heart. but then, in James 4, and
8, this last phrase here and I think sometimes this is a
struggle. You double-minded.
The double minded individual. Is the person who is constantly
bouncing back and forth. Between right and wrong.
If you're struggling in your life and I don't know if that's
you or not. I have no idea. but if you're
struggling with life, And you're struggling with your spiritual
life. And you're bouncing back between
right and wrong all the time. The problem is James says,
that's double-minded. The Bible talks about having
your mind, or your eye, be single in James 1 and verse 8.
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
What is unstable in all his ways means the word, unstable refers
to an individual, who is unsteady uncertain or fickle.
It brings to mind a drunken man, staggering or weaving.
So, I'm just saying this folks, that kind of Lifestyle will not
work, you're destined for failure.
But there's an easy fix draw near to God, He will draw near
to. You cleanse your hands, you
sinners. Cleanse your hands and purify
your hearts, you double-minded. That's what James says, and the
beauty of it is is Jesus says, blessed are the pure in heart
because guess what You're going to get to serve.
You're going to get to see God. Remember Jesus says you can't
serve two masters, okay? Got to have a pure heart.
Then Jesus says this finally our final verse in verse 9 Then he
says, this blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be
called the sons of God. The Lord here is describing the
rudimentary disposition of his subjects.
Jesus Christ. Is the Prince of Peace.
And do you know what he wants from us?
He wants us to be people of peace to.
I got to say something very positive about this congregation
again. And I am thankful, and I don't
think we pray about this enough thanking God enough.
This congregation is at peace and that is wonderful.
I know places that are not at peace.
I've known places that really struggle over covid.
Splits happened terrible things. They were not at peace.
I know what it did here for us. Manhattan bound us together.
It strengthened our faith. It strengthened our bonds.
If a congregation is not at peace, you cannot grow.
And congregations that are a turmoil.
All the time are not growing. Its destructive.
So I'm very thankful this congregation is at peace and we
need to thank God for that and pray that it always will be that
So what does Jesus want? Jesus wants us to be proactive
in mending broken relationships. Broken relationships that are in
our life, you know, Jesus does not say, blessed are the peace
lovers. He says blessed are the peace
makers. You may love peace.
You may enjoy its benefits. But never involve yourself in
the process. Okay.
How can you be a peacemaker and I'm going to touch on this first
one at the very end. I'm going to make a little
clarification point at the end, but I'm going to give the two
basic statements of this of how you become a peacemaker.
Number one, You must actively seek to restore.
Broken relationships between your fellow, man.
I'm going to clarify that later. But that's a fact.
If you want to be at peace, you have to mend broken
relationships. If there's stuff going on
between you and somebody else fix it, Be at peace.
That's number one. Another way we could be a
peacemaker and we must be a peacemaker.
Is this number two? We must seek to bring our
neighbor to at peace with God through obedience to the gospel.
So Jesus is the Prince of Peace. He wants us to be like his
subjects. He wants us to be like, God in
that regard. How do we do that?
Be at peace among each other. And bring people by the power of
the Gospel, so that they could be at peace with God.
Let me give you two versus acts 10 and verse 36, the word, which
God said to the children of Israel preaching, peace through
Jesus Christ. He is Lord of all another
passage, Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 15 and having shod your
feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace.
So in every relationship, we have to seek peace.
Husband and wife. Relationships in the church.
And relationships with people outside of the church.
Got to do our best. To be at peace.
Jesus says, blessed are the peacemakers God loves peace, and
He blesses, those who make it. In fact, James says the
following about peace and James 3 and 18.
Now, the fruit of righteousness is sown in Peace by those who
make peace in addition. Paul said this in first
Thessalonians, chapter 5 and verse 13.
And to esteem them. Very highly in love for their
work sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
Jesus says this. The benefit of being a
peacemaker. You're going to be called the
sons of God. The word Sons.
There also is used there as an emphasis to describe a
relationship with your father. You may be a father.
You may be a son, in general? We all are if you're a male.
Or you have been a father or son.
But that's what we are continually because that's the
relationship that we have. That is the picture here.
We're going to be the sons of God.
We're gonna have a relationship with God.
We're emulating our father just as God makes peace through his
son. His children must live in peace
with their fellow man. Now I got to say this, remember
when I said I'm going to clarify the point that I made about
mending broken relationships with other people because I'm
going to tell you something, you may try and it may not work.
And there's nothing you can do about it.
So, Romans 12 and 18, if it is possible as much as depends on,
you live peaceably among all men.
So ask yourself this. Am I doing my part?
And having peace, mending broken relationships.
In all the relationships that I have in my life.
Am I just doing my best to do that?
Because you know what? And if you've done that don't
you see, it's kind of like, forgiveness, your ridding
yourself of all the negative stuff.
You're not going to be negatively influenced by that
anymore. You're going to feel better and
live better do better. Everything's better.
Let it go. Okay, in conclusion.
What did Jesus say when put them up really quickly?
Again, I'll be very, very brief. Blessed are the poor in spirit
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
I'm destitute without God, I'm destitute without Jesus, I gotta
send problem. Then what I'm going to mourn
over those sins, I'm going to be comforting because I'm going to
do something about it. I'm going to be forgiven when
I'm washed in the blood of Jesus at baptism.
I'm going to be comforted. Furthermore I'm going to be
comforted when I repented those things and ask God to forgive
me, I'm going to be forgiven. I'm going to be comforted moving
forward, wonderful stuff. It's going to understand and
give me the idea of being the spirit of meekness.
And Jesus says, I'll inherit the earth and that means I'm going
to inherit my allotted portion of Heaven, aren't you?
Kind of get the point but when I go to heaven, I gotta be poor in
spirit. If I don't be forgiven, I got a
moreover, my skin. I want to inherit the earth.
Meaning I want to go to heaven. One day, I got to be meek.
Okay. What else I got to?
Fill the void that I have deep inside of me with God's
righteousness. That's through the word of God.
I got a hunger and thirst after it.
Then what I'm going to understand that God has been
merciful to me. So I'm going to be merciful to
others, and I'm going to obtain that Mercy in measure from other
people, and without measure from God, It all stems from being
pure in heart. And if I'm pure at heart, guess
what? Here's that theme again I get to
see God one day. And then it's going to cause me
to be a peacemaker. And I'm going to be called a son
of God. Or the sons of God.
Because I'm emulating my Father in heaven.
I'm through this morning. Thank you so much for your kind
listening and I hope these things were helpful and
encouraging to you in some way, we never close a time when we
teach them the word of God without extending an invitation,
and we'll do that. Now, here's the invitation.
If a person wants to become a child of God, the steps are very
simple and Romans 10:17, we need to hear the word of God.
The Bible says, so then faith comes by hearing and hearing by
the word of God. But then there's more there's a
choice to be made in Hebrews 11 and verse 6.
We have to believe with all your heart without faith.
It's impossible to please him for.
He who comes to God, must believe that he is, and that he
is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
And then this, we must repent of our Sins acts 17 and 30.
Truly these times of ignorance, God, overlooked.
But now commands all men everywhere to repent.
All that means is this I'm changing today, right here, I'm
changing and it's going to lead to a change of my life.
And the best part is, it's going to change my relationship with
the Lord great stuff. If you're willing to do that,
you're willing to do this. Say the greatest words you will
ever. Say in all of your life acts
8:37 to confess, Jesus Christ, as the Son of God, then Philip
said, if you believe with all your heart, you may.
And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the
son of God. Upon taking those steps.
You're now a fit candidate to go down to the point of Salvation
and that's it. Baptism to have your sins washed
away. Mark 16:16, he who believes and
is baptized, will be saved. But he, who does not believe
will be condemned. If you've never taken those
steps of obedience, and you've never become a child of God,
we'd love to assist you in that today.
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maybe haven't been living like you should Good, great thing.
Second law. Pardon just repent of those sins
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