Sunday, July 7th, 2019 - AM - For Righteousness Sake...For My Sake (Matt. 5:10-12)
If you're listening to the services, you are listening to the group Hill Baptist Church Sunday morning message. And we continue our study on the Beatitudes Matthew chapter 1 verses 10 through 12. Matthew chapter 5 verses 10 through 12 invite you to follow along. I hope you have your Bible handy I trusted you do as we have done looking at each one of these three attitude and approaching especially verse number 10, if you would be so try to read out loud person to 10 when we get to it. What actress is Matthew Chapter 5 beginning and verse number one? The holy scriptures recording about our Lord and savior and seeing the multitude he went up into a mountain and when he was set his disciples came on to him. and he opened his mouth and taught them saying blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain Mercy blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of job. 3% out loud would be blessed. Are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake, what are there since you cannot have it blessed are you when men shall revile you? And persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake. Rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted. They the prophet which were before you Lord. I pray that you would do to your work this morning a heart Sandlot. I come to your word with humility or this is the one of the most difficult of this sermon that I had to preach as of yet. I pray that you would help me to stand on your Divine proof that your people would be fed by your work as sheep of your fold hearing your voice and being drawn coming up to you Lord not boo preacher not to a church not baptismal water is necessarily just for that take but they come to Jesus and the cover his feet to be drawn to him and then follow him. That's the spirit would lead which would inevitably wait for the baptismal water and sand to a fellowship of the congregation of like-minded Believers Lord. I ask that you would strengthen my voice this morning that you would do your work in and threw me hide me behind the cross and may I be an encouragement in Station to build other people. We were not ask your help divinely for unction and Grayson power power beyond a human demonstration, but a demonstration of spirit and power that we would know that this word has been from you as we consider your holy scriptures in Jesus name. I pray amen.
As I mentioned in my prayer has been one of the most challenging of all the Beatitudes that I've studied. I think I've read this. I don't know how many times in my purse in life and not had it really transform me and transform my thinking the way that it has through this Expedition through this pursuit of what Jesus is saying here. I've heard great messages on and I've read great sermons on The Sermon on the Mount particular on this V attitude and I can point you to some of those resources and education to you. If you if you're seeking the spirit leading, but there is a reason why I believe this is one of the most difficult to culmination of Jesus's introduction My Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy name. We have key terms that we identify will Jesus is teaching it says he We noticed The Sermon on the Mount so it in a ditch Court specially in the same time, you're going to have the key elements that you would look for. You know what I was and how to let it clap we had to do this and put together our message. We had to study the passage that we had to have an introduction and we had to have our main thought we had to have her proposition. We had to have our body we had to have our online and we had to have our application points in a strange things in our conclusion and all of them to get it and you know, you try to do the best you can and when he gets through you go back if you want. Video tapes. Can you play? Oh what a terrible Parable presentation. No cigarette smoke and they helped each one of us. And I'm sure that public speaking is is something that can be worked on with human effort. It's something that can be home, but I'll send you a communication really is the key. And Jesus is communicating a message here introduction. He's introducing the disciples in the multitude with an air shop. Where is going to make this claim and put it in but if Jesus had something that he was going to say is a man thought that we need to have undergirding the rest of what it's going to say in Matthew Chapter 5 Matthew chapter 6 Matthew chapter 7. This introduction would be during a cord that and I would also submit to you that verses 10 through 12 would be one of his main thought to wet our appetite to where the sermons going. What is this song assembly is being persecuted for righteousness sake? Jesus is going to teach on this and other places. In fact, he's going to tell his followers and John is going to give it some of this inside in the upper room. John is going to let us know that Jesus said the world hates me the world.
Let's think about what Jesus is saying here in his very first this was his very first sermon as he begins his public Ministry Conference healing he's he's helped so many people and he's gained an audience with he has one rapport with the people. They're questioning in their hearts Montville wondering is this the next Moses Kingdom laws are some good dispensation. Once I've called and Jesus here is giving me work. Every year is upon him. Every I wrap shirt with WhatsApp keeps going to say next. And as she goes through the Beatitudes. The poor in spirit the mournful the meek. The hungry and thirsty for righteousness the merciful the pure in heart Peacemaker, one of these building blocks leads up to this and I believe final be attitude because versus 11 and 12 are going to give us some further insight into this one. You're not going to be in verse 10 until you've made it through verse 3 through 9. Until you have internalized and again as we Willis traded like it like a child learning to walk for his first steps and the Father in heaven looking down and strive to live knowing our send our sinfulness knowing his Perfection. We are called to be perfect as our father in Heaven is perfect and yet how many time is a just man fall with scripture saying rises again? And so would he go to four. Just where we need to be more meat than our lives but we try to condition our words and think before we speak a little better than we did the last time we take some shoe leather. All of these things we work on we home and say I want to be more like Jesus. I'm trying to look more like tomorrow and today than I did yesterday. That's part of the predestination plan of God. And yes, I didn't use that word. It's okay in the Bible. We are predestined to be conformed to the image of his son. Damage that was Marvin Adam is sinful and disgraceful and fallen short of the glory. This is the process of sanctification when we get to heaven will be glorified. People will fit this description in the millennial Reign. I believe that transformed this is what makes it so different and yet this is one of the most difficult Beatitudes because there are so few people myself included many times. I look over my life. So, you know, I really don't know what persecution really is. I don't I don't know if I understand what it is to be reviled.
This Beyonce is the most difficult I believe because it is the culmination is it not truck for a little bit if we still have the three aspects there's there's the promise of the blood in there since and there's good at the description of that. There's the reward there's a three elements that because it's not focused on a positive comments that the church is focused on something that the world to get back us. Let's think about the Beatitudes in general. We started by looking at them in Learning to Lean on the Lord with the first for beatitude transforming us from the inside and out. This would be that the vertical cleansing. This would be that vertical relationship between us and God restored for Jesus Christ. Devon wants that money to live for the Lord leaning on the Lord and living for the board when were right with him. It's going to manifest outwardly where we're going and it's going to influence our relationships with people around us. But Jesus is so masterful in this he doesn't stop there. He gets his right this way and he tells us he'll make it right this way out early, but then he says there's a response coming back.
We give out and we did and we sacrifice and give ourselves. There's a response to expect. From those who do not see the truth. Like Jesus has brought us along to be able to hold it. And I trust that I'm going to be able to share some things with you this morning and not be casting Pearls Before Swine because you know the roar you're following him. And these are sweet Treasures to you. He should precious things because you can see your savior suffering and we heard in the song resting safely one day all of this will be over.
I was going to follow the trend of modern-day preaching then I might bring you a you know, when a purging message sailing from here right? Come patch on the back and wrap my arm around your shoulder in a loving way and she's going to be all right, you know the sun's coming up tomorrow night. But I would just be breathing right over with Jesus Ascension.
I can't tell you that I don't know about tomorrow, but I Know Who Holds Tomorrow and he's the one that's telling me. I need to expect something from the world. I need to respect those who don't understand scriptural proof to react in a way. maybe sometimes
I wish I could tell you, you know, you just keep your life with Jesus and everybody's going to be your friends going to be smooth sailing.
If I did that I would not be scripture. I will be resting the scriptures to my own destruction. Jesus said blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake? I simply taking these words. And use them as my title for this morning for righteousness sake. for my sake meaning juice What's your language are persecuted for righteousness sake?
I think we need to understand what what this is impaling blessed. Are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake for there to be? No, you haven't noticed. Excuse me. I'm sorry. You've noticed the include the other the bookends for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven which encapsulated the portable spirit and persecuted for righteousness sake this is the Beatitudes segment. Spell as we consider Matthew in particular in the opening of the New Testament. We remember Jesus is in Galilee. The Jewish people have been blessed by God. In their past history, he brought them out of Egypt with a strong on my arm and he delivered him through the Red Sea. He led them into the Promised Land. And they were important conqueror only as much as her face would allow them to many of them died and unbelief being mixed in their congregation. Thank you. You're a blessing. Your blessing to them so they don't have to listen to me. Talk to me.
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the Jewish people had had the Lord reach out to them time and time again, even from the very beginning. God warned them. He was there in that day when he gave him the most he said it'll be yours. Everything will be fine in my blessing be upon you but in the day that you break.
The very people who stood there. Day said, yes, we will put my name to this is our covenant additional pregnant with Jehovah. We're going to be there. Almost within moments Moses's coming down the Mountainside Joshua meets with him at work, and she's coming down Joshua's concerned.
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That cat we want not what is it become a mogul make us the cat that we may work to make a Aaron and Erin date under the people from day one from day one is really did not measure up to their end of the government. I mean like a husband and wife painting before. Witnesses in before God and yeah, we're going to love each other for the rest of our lives wedding day instead of going to the honeymoon the husband or the wife whatever it was already already committing adultery before the first wedding days even over. That doesn't make you sick to your stomach. You need to have a gut check and you need to have your conscience may be restored to to righteousness.
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to go on and call them back. He sent Prophet after prophets to them. Whatever profit and they turned a deaf ear makes a note. We don't want God's way for him to do it already know. Some something drastic or something actually wakes them up from their super of sinful lot, but it's not long before they're right back out into it again and got one of them you should judgment is coming. Judgement, that's the message that is unpalatable us today because we want to say everything is fine. Everything's okay judgement. It's on the doorstep. North America does not wake up then we will to suffer God's judgement when we walked away from his ranches principal when we've got people speaking specifically to Christianity by waterproof. I use that term loosely when we make a Christian today how many of them are walking truly Detroit narrow path? How many activities in Broadway that Jesus himself said leads to the truck and we're mixed where intermingled were tainted. We can hear our Saviour dude say the door is still open. You can walk wholeheartedly with me now. Please don't misunderstand me. when we're not under a covenant like Israel, what do we need to establish that fact to make sure everything that clearly the church at Sonic and we're not going to go into the promised land and in possess it like his promise with Nate remember when it is real mess with them and y'all still going to meet that Believers are grafted into that enjoyment spiritual blessing of all the promises. That was Abraham and I'm a Child of God through Abraham by faith not by works, but by faith I can receive the blessings of God's peace upon a time. I receive the blessings that the New Testament unfolds guide me in my life and yet Hebrews 12 reminds me that if I'm not careful in how I walk and follow the lord when I mix with only one in my pursuit of Jesus when I when I got when I ready for when I exchanged when I want unstable when I am lured Away by to receive the chastening hand of God because he's a loving father not going to let me continue on a path that sell weed to my destruction what father would because he loves his not long if they cross the line and then so does the child Limes cross then 11 father discipline because it's necessary in love to bring back in the confined. Israel is sitting at the feet of Beach and also to the Greek dish with a Jewish audience in Northern Israel, and he have already judged by God and dispersed throughout the world according the Prophecies of Daniel and Jeremiah Jeremiah.
These men sit up in a day not on my house and they called God's people in a way that many preachers not like what I'm doing with you this morning. They stood forth before dark people not the world and said repent it's time to turn around. It's time to come back to Jehovah.
Sometimes the message was received as it was with Micah as none of it. But as Jonah preached and none of it. Stay here and they do Jesus is talking to a group of people who have been promised one of the things that have broken and now They're looking for hope that this is going to be the one this is going to be the man. He's going to bring us back. This is the beginning of the restoration of all those promises. This is the son of David. He's the one that's going to ruin rain on the front and he's going to restore and reestablish us as Israel in the world. I think they missed a crucial part because Jesus says here blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven the message of John the Baptist. He broke the 400 years of Silence. Israel hadn't heard from God since Malachi and Old Testament closed with Silence from heaven for 400 years. And then John the Baptist comes with his message that breaks repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. What was the difference between King Of Heaven the king of God? Okay confused. looking for Simplicity scripture when you study the Kingdom of Heaven Strong's Concordance can help me with it and I'm being serious with it. Just look up how many times King Of Heaven occur and where it occurs is the one who talks about the Kingdom of Heaven more than any and most win at the kingdom of God.
And there's a specs and we can see the kingdom of God Airlines, but they put their supposedly a fulfillment that stomach for the kingdom of Christ and his Millennial Reign the kingdom of God. He's he's ultimately overall, so don't let those person but John the Baptist message with repent. Ye for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand Matthew chapter 3. The kingdom was coming in the person of the state year old man having her sent this way. He was a spiritual Kingdom the reign of God the hearts of men kingdom is coming soon. You'll be invisible Kingdom when the king returns. And once again our method should be repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand Christ message to the church for this our old are you to say repent that was in his day and it's still the message for our day, but the average Sunday morning congregation to repent.
Send Joseph Parker the man whose messages repent sets himself against his age and will be flattered mercilessly Morel, He challenges. Where is book one end for such a man?
You better not preach repentance and take its pledged your head to heaven. Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven you see? Why was it so difficult now? No one's going to have a problem with you for doing good. You need to do good everyone loves it. When you do good. We need humanitarian people in fact.
Don't believe me just drive down the road a little ways. It won't be long before somebody catch you up or it seems like there's some people that we drive with with controlling. Those things are good drivers.
They're done. Right and they're not no one's going to have a problem with you for doing good.
But it's the moment you take a stand and do what is right You're going to have more money than you can count. Some of them are going to be the closest people to you. Because they want their way and nobody's going to tell him that you different.
This is heartbreaking. And we wonder what Jeremiah was called the weeping prophet because I heard and follow the right way and we lift up our voice and say no don't go that way. We misunderstood something Sheeran.
Washington that are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven We need to understand there is a certain characteristic about a loyal and dedicated follower of Jesus Christ. Number one. He is loyal to the person of Christ. This is where I get the title my message for righteousness sake for my sake. He's loyal to the principles of Christ persecuted for righteousness sake doesn't mean I would recommend to the dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones and his treatment of this he goes into an in-depth exposition of this to me, but what I really and points out that much of what we call it suffering for righteousness sake today is not really suffering for righteousness sake and suffering for a political cause or suffering for this or suffering for that. But that's not what Jesus Define at suffering for righteousness sake and if you want a definition for those who studies where am I going?
Show us the truth of what it is to suffer for righteousness a person who has this character is a committed follower of Jesus. They set their hand of the plowed and not looking back because he Florida I'm going to follow his principles. His principles are right to listen to men I would but I want you to consider another man who stood up and prophesied and this man was persecuted for righteousness sake Take the Bible if you would in turn over to Amos chapter number to just briefly.
Anus is an interesting man. And he was in the first half of the eighteenth Century before Christ. He was but he wasn't his life. He's a hard man by trade and God told him to go from the south of Judah where he want to leave that and go to the northern tribes of Israel and printed and prophesied to them that God's judgment on their doorstep. Amy was the man who looked up his voice for God.
and he gave me these messages through chapter 2 3 4 5 6 and 7 and he says you know what? He's talking about Moana and chapter number to three transgressions with Judo to look at burst number for he just named named write down a list three transgressions of his kingdom Judah Israel. We continue down for chapter number three, and he said to this word that the Lord has spoken against against you there's judgment on children of Israel the northern tribes against the whole family, which I brought up from the land of Egypt. And he goes to the tribe how they have a dog gone after idolatry and turn their back on the ward God and he says I'm going to put an adversary around you think it's going to be terrible things that are coming. Testify to the house of Jacob Jacob haven't seen how many things happened to mix God and Truth in Samaria so much so that they were led into into captivity by the Assyrians hear this word. Give me this word what that take up against you noticed. It's a lamentation.
The whole book in the Bible called Lamentations who wrote that.
Israel's Fallen, she's going to ride with no more. She's forsaken apart under a cup. As we look at it at Jeremiah, I'm sorry. I've had a most here just preaching. Raging Judge on World of them that are at ease in Zion Chapel number 6 you're trusting in the mountain of Samaria.
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he was a priest of the Lord is going to stand up and and put put in The Sims place. The man's name was a messiah. He should have been close enough to God to know that what Amos was saying is true. But what did he do the same and he goes tattletales to the King jeroboam II and he takes his works at the mall if you look at chapter 7 of Amos.
This is basically the message and burgers 10. Amos chapter 7 and the land is not able to Bear all his words. Is America able to Bear these kind of words if we were to stand up and say God's judgement is coming. Pronounce a famous General shall die by The Sword and Israel shall surely be little.
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that you're hurting we don't want to hear that fear.
I wonder how many creatures have been disinvited that maybe you know, if they're standing for this word and they have an opportunity of public speaking somewhere as I've had the privilege to do when I stand up and leave synonym prayer or I have the opportunity to pray publicly or they're going to say go back to the fields. We don't want that here from hearing it and it's positive you he says I was not a prophet neither was I profit son. The Hermit gatherer sycamore fruit the water took me as I follow the flock and the Lord said unto me go prophesy of God and it's inescapable and a person who called to preach knows when the Lord has called him to go and take his word another day. We have his work and it's about today and I tell you blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness sake there a Christian suffering the world around because they're standing to the principles of Truth No believe that there's somebody run our backyard here who got here in Lakewood. He's just trying to operate his business on his conscience and and before God. If you ever want some good cake made for next week, we should just go flood Bakery. and so rude that's just one instance. It's close to us there so many others. I mean I can sit down and show you on my radar all across every corner of our country is happening everywhere. You look Christians cannot be silent that it is not time to be a doormat. That's not suffering for righteousness sake becoming somebody to you on that you stand on the truth and when they put you to the block you're willing to stand when no one else will that suffering for righteousness? Because you're suffering for the cause of what Jesus said.
Well, I'm time plates and shapes me the character. Of this follower of Christ. He is loyal. He is loyal to the principles of Christ's righteousness sake he is loyal to the person of Christ. Righteousness sake and the other part of my title this morning for you is for mice.
You're going to say and I'll just point this out to you back in our texting Matthew 5. Blessed are the meek verse 11 when men shall revile you and persecute you and she'll say all manner of evil against you falsely. What are the next words? MARSOC if it's not a problem and it doesn't fit what uses the same here. If you're going to be persecuted for righteousness sake of righteousness for the principles of God's word that you're suffering to wake you up for Jesus Christ, and now I get to walk in his past and and I have counted worthy to suffer as even this is a this is a new testament mentality when he says I learn to see the power of God. power of his resurrection wonderful Heroes of his suffering
So if we close our today. I want to encourage you. I don't know what you're having to put up with. It might be it might be family and I need somebody to love more more than anything apart from Christ. Remind me Sunday might be a lot of times it comes from God's people young priest Amazon stand up an 86 face. He's supposed to be.
When you're being an Amos and God's people stand up against you and your lips and upper right? I want to tell you what Jesus said it's time to start counting your blessings and learning how to Rejoice the way Jesus the same thing with joystick. What can you rejoin the power? How is there blood in the people? You love to hate you with all kinds of things about you and just represent you in the line in do physical harm.
Isaiah was Sonic under the red foxes book of Martyrs won't take long before you go without these people know what it is to suffer for righteousness sake do we believe that Christians don't see this kind of persecution because they're too much like the world. He's pretty bold to say that I was pretty go to repeat it to you. Have we have we given our heart over or we willing to say I'll be poor in spirit. I'm worn out to all this. And I know that when I do the response that I'm going to get it's not one of favor from the world, but I'm going to have a favor of my father that means more to me than anything in this world at the Grammys.