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Sermon on the Mount
What famous figure in the OT goes up to a mountain to meet with God?
Moses
The Law Giver
And now Jesus is going up to a mountain to teach…
as a new law giver… but not with a new law
This is going to be our new memory verse during the sermon on the mount.
So that we can be constantly reminded in every sermon that will come out of Jesus’ sermon on the mount, that his teaching isn’t a new law, but he is teaching as one who is going to fulfill all of the OT
Tonights sermon is called The Paradox of God’s Kingdom
When you try out for the varsity team, and you don’t get in.
Or when you want to get asked to prom, and then your friend gets asked and you don’t.
Maybe during a time where you are looking for a job and struggling to find one, and then someone else gets the job.
Or possibly it’s for no other reason other than someone else’s life just appears to be better than yours.
There are a number of reasons that we would wish to switch places with another person.
But at the end of the day, it’s likely has to do with feeling like they are more fortunate than we are.
Tonights sermon is called The Paradox of God’s Kingdom
And in order to try help us understand this text, I think it’s helpful to understand what a paradox is.
A paradox is a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true
or to put it another way:
a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities
Give me a few examples of paradoxes
Jumbo Shrimp
When there is a sale at a store: Save money 50% off
Here are the rules: Ignore all rules.
Here are the rules: Ignore all rules.
Paradoxes appear many times throughout Scripture
Paradoxes appear many times throughout Scripture
God is three and one
Jesus is fully man and fully God
The Bible has human authors and is breathed out by God.
How many of us wish that we could change places with someone else?
When you try out for the varsity team, and you don’t get in.
Or when you want to get asked to prom, and then your friend gets asked and you don’t.
Maybe during a time where you are looking for a job and struggling to find one, and then someone else gets the job.
Our passage (known as the beatitudes) is full of paradoxes… or sayings that seem like contradictions but when they are tested are found to be true.
Or possibly it’s for no other reason other than someone else’s life just appears to be better than yours.
What does this word blessed mean?
Repeated nine times in our passage
There are a number of reasons that we would wish to switch places with another person.
Happy… or fortunate
The word blessing has to do with having found favor with God.
So the paradox is this: you are fortunate if you are poor in spirit
and so on and so forth
Matt 5.
Those who are considered blessed,
Now… here is where these could be called paradoxes.
But at the end of the day, it’s likely has to do with feeling like they are more fortunate than we are.
When a person feel poor in any sense, would we consider them lucky/fortunate/blessed?
If a person doesn’t have enough buy dinner… that is not something to be happy about.
Jesus in the first beatitude describes someone who isn’t poor in money, but instead is poor in spirit.
Meaning this: their spiritual state is so low that they offer nothing in and of themself to find favor with God.
To better understand this, let’s understand the opposite of poor in spirit.
That would be the phrase Rich in spirit.
Who in the New Testament would we consider rich in Spirit?
The Phaisees… those who kept the laws/demands/rules of the OT who believed in doing so they contributed to their right standing with God (Justification)
1 Those who we might consider most unfortunate are those who Jesus calls blessed.
How many of us wish that we could change places with someone else?
When you try out for the varsity team, and you don’t get in.
Or when you want to get asked to prom, and then your friend gets asked and you don’t.
Maybe during a time where you are looking for a job and struggling to find one, and then someone else gets the job.
Or possibly it’s for no other reason other than someone else’s life just appears to be better than yours.
There are a number of reasons that we would wish to switch places with another person.
But at the end of the day, it’s likely has to do with feeling like someone else is more fortunate than we are.
But there is a danger in such wishing…
The danger is this: we might realize that it is through our hardships and our suffering that we are going to find the greatest happiness, joy, and blessing.
James 1:2-4
It is far better to be poor in spirit that to have the false sense of confidence that we are rich in spirit
… because the first beatitude is fountain from which all the rest of the beatitudes derive from
Why?
Check it out
Being poor in spirit means you recognize just how depraved and broken you are…
Matt 5:3-11
You realize that by yourself you lack everything you need to be right with God
The NLT is helpful translation when it comes to understand what is being said.
“God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him,
being poor in sprit leads to
Does a person who has poor in spirt have anything to brag about?
No!
Meek - quiet, gentle, not easily frustrated, nor quick to offense.
Meekness comes from being poor in spirit
Let’s continue:
Matt 5:
Hunger and thirst - that is to say they have a strong longing and desire for righteousness.
Their desire is for that which is good and right
Comes from a realization that they are poor in spirit
They extend mercy why?
Because they have recieved mercy because they were poor in spirit.
Matt
Pure in heart
the motive behind all works of righteousness is always done with purity
Unlike what we will see in a few weeks from now
Then Jesus goes on to talk about those who Give, Pray, and Fast in order to be seen by others
matt 6::1
This would not be practicing righteousness from a pure heart
matt 6:
Pure in heart means that the righteous acts are being done not being practices so that they can appear to be rich in spirit, but it becomes an overflow of a new motive that can only be a result of one who has recieved mercy
Why are they peacemakers?
We replace craftiness with this virtue
We manipulate to get our way
Because there is not peace with God for those who realize that they are poor in spirit
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