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Welcome

Hymn - MEEKNESS AND MAJESTY (315)

Psalm Reading

Prayer

Teen Talk

Hymn - Thank You Jesus (695)

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Prayer Items

Jedidiah

Lord I pray for all those who are blind to the truth.

Save them Lord, help them and allow them to come closer to you.

Amen

Melchizedek

I pray that this year will guide me to get signed for an academy and get good grades.

Hymn - I Know that My Redeemer Lives (462)

Sermon Search

Why do people know God to be the truth but decide to convert in Hinduism or another religion.

Are we all related in a way of which we came from Adam and Eve?

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Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5 -7)

Review Last week:

unconverted - to see their failure to obey God and the need to turn to Jesus for refuge

converted - to see that in the strength of the Lord and by His Grace we may be able to obey them “out of gratitude”

Theme:- Gospel of the Kingdom

Citizens of the Kingdom

Righteousness of the Kingdom

Love God above all

Happiness (Osher)

Dictionary: the state of being happy

Happy: feeling or showing pleasure (or contentment)

A momentary (fleating glimse) of the experience of pleasure

Happiness is sold by society as a perminant state of being Happy

This does not exist in human experience

It is not promised by God during our earthly lifetime

Bible presents the need for contentment

Two references of happiness “tob” (pleasant/agreeable/morally good)

Happy (osher) is used 11 times in 8 verses.

Blessed (Esher) - Matthew uses Greek form

Assurance from God of His Acceptance

Provides true contentment

The word happiness in language is derived from “Esher”

Not a superficial emotional experience

Other uses in the Bible:

The Poor in Spirit

World: “Happy are the rich”

Man’s inherant desire for happiness

significance, self-esteem, satisfaction and security has happiness as the ultimate goal

Seek it in:

Marriage / Divorce

Borth of a Child / Abortion

wealth / poverty

Fast Lane / Releaxed

Eat / Diet

Malcolm Muggeridge (before conversion): “Happiness is like a young deer, fleet and beautiful.

Hunt him, and he becomes a poor frantic quarry; after the kill, a piece of stinking flesh”

and “he who pursues happiness will never reach it.”

Happiness - “hap” is circumstancial / Subjective

Religion cannot fulfil the need

Based on your way of thinking

“God never made the soul so small that the whole world will satisfy it”

False Theology:

Whatever makes me happy must be right.

Whatever makes me unhappy must be wrong.

Discomfort, delay, risk, suffering, inconveniences, and obstacles can’t be God’s will.

Without knowing it, I begin to worship the false gods of comfort, money, pleasure, and things.

Called to be Holy

Blessed - is objective

out inner spiritual condition in the sight of God

union between us and God

Blessed (Only God can give)

Blessedness is independant of circumstances

Blessedness is continuous

Blessedness is related to a persons spirirtual condition

That God longs for his people to enjoy

Assurance of His unmeritted favour

Jesus rebukes a woman for misusing “blessed”

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Poor in Spirit

Those who have become convinced of their spiritual poverty

Realisation that self worship is empty

Example Jesus provides of the self righteous

John Blanchard:

God’s promise of salvation is not to the wealthy, the talented or the educated, nor to the respectable or religious, but to those who acknowledge that they are utterly without spiritual merit or ability

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Poor in Spirit is abandonment of self righteousness

Theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven

It is the divine rule in the lives of those who have a living relationship with Christ.

Lukewarm

Kingdom of Heaven commences when you are “Born Again”

Christians are not children of earth trying to get to heaven, they are children of heaven making their way home, where they will enter into the sinless, deathless, endless, glorious fulness of all that their heavenly Father has in store for them, a kingdom prepared ‘since the creation of the world’ (Matthew 25:34).

Conclusion

Poor in Spirit is essential for being Born Again