Sermon Tone Analysis

“Peace be with you.”

Let us pray,

“Father may your will be done for us, Jesus may your word be proclaimed to us, Spirit may your work be accomplished in us.

Amen.”

I. Introduction

The Character I wanted my wife to emulate.

The Character I vowed to embody.

Just like my profile of the man I want to become, Jesus preaches the quality he comes to embody.

And Just like the qualities I was looking for in a woman I wanted to marry, so too is Jesus preaching the qualities his bride is to emulate.

II.

The Life Jesus Embodies.

1. Poor in Spirit.

2. Mourns.

Man of Sorrows-

Jesus weeps over those who die-

Laments over sin-

Grieved int he garden-

Other examples-

The God of all comfort-

3. Gentle/Meek-

Gentleness-

Power under restraint- Meekness

Reviled but not reviling-

4. Righteous.

5. Merciful.

6. Pure/Holy.

without sin-

7. Peaceful.

Makes peace with God-

8. Persecuted.

because he was righteous-

Persecuted-

Jesus teaches us about the nature of one who is truly blessed and in His life we see each characteristic defined.

What is truly meant by meekness, Poor in Spirit, etc. we come to know through Jesus’ actions in his life.

Jesus embodies the one who is truly blessed.

Now that we have learned WHAT Jesus is preaching; let’s consider the WHY Jesus has preached to us- To tell us what we will come to emulate as we follow Him in faith and as his spirit works in our lives.

III.

The life we Emulate.

This life is done to us not done by us-

Being someone poor in Spirit, by definition possession no ability to become spiritually blessed.

They are complete dependent upon the richness of others.

Jesus gives himself to us through his Spirit which causes us to be reborn.

The Spirit works in you to produce the life we are to emulate.

The Christian life is a life that is given to us by Jesus empowered by his Spirit.

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IV.

Application: What are you becoming?

1. “The kingdom of heaven” in v. 3, 10

these are bookends that frame the life we will come to emulate.

They invite us on the journey of following Jesus which begins with the kingdom (His reign in our lives) that lies ahead and which ends with receiving the fullness of the kingdom in hand!

For theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.

This provides the thrust of Jesus’ sermon.

The beatitudes begin and end with a hope of the Kingdom of heaven.

Jesus is inviting us to share in his life which begins with his reign in your present life and his reign growing more in your life until the fullness of the Kingdom is reached in your life.

It is both a present sense and a future sense.

Just like my vows at my wedding were the hope of what I want to become as a husband, so the presence of the reign of Christ in my life is a present reality as well as a hope of what I will come to have- Christ completely reigning over, in, and through my life.

2. A bride who can fall more in love with and trust in her husband.

Jesus doesn’t hold us to a standard that he himself isn’t willing to commit to.

Jesus shares with those who follow Him all that He is blessed with from all that He accomplishes.

3. A person who can be more self-aware.

Given the standard (Jesus) we:

see how we are being saved.

Have you come to solely trust in Jesus as your Savior because you are spiritually bankrupt?

Has your spiritual poverty brought you to weep over your sin and caused you to hate it?

Has your mourning led you to restrained the power of the old man so that the new man- Jesus- can rule your life?

Has your meekness brought you to hunger and thirst for things to be made right?

Has your appetite for righteousness moved you to be as merciful to others as Jesus has been merciful to you? Has being merciful brought more purity and holiness into your life?

Has this purity of heart made you feel your peace with God, through which, you truly know you are His child?

And in knowing you are a child of God has this invited insults and attacks from the enemies of God?

If your answers be yes- The Kingdom is Yours in Christ Jesus!

can gauge our own Spiritual maturity.

monitor the Spirit’s activity in their life.

encourage christians to live into their calling.

4. A person who loves others better.

The kingdom grows as Jesus’ reign spreads to the lives of the lost.

Jesus involves those who emulate Him to represent him to others and invite them into the Kingdom.

Let us enter into communion with our Jesus!

May our hungering and thirsting be satisfied and be filled up with Him...