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Blessed Be Your Name
WELCOME
Good morning family.
Hear the Word of the Lord from Psalm 34…
I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad.
Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!
I LOVE that!
This is more than a call to personally worship the Lord.
It’s a call to worship Him together.
My worship of the Lord is enhanced when you worship with me.
As you sing, pray, listen, and respond.
You’re not just honoring the Lord.
You’re encouraging your brothers and sisters.
Thank you.
In just a moment we’ll hear a reading from the text for today’s sermon in Matthew 5:3.
Turn there now.
While you’re turning, 5 quick announcements:
1) Happy Reformation Day!
On October 31, 1517, a German monk named Martin Luther nailed a list of 95 Theses (or statements) to the Castle Church door in Wittenburg, Germany.
He was inviting a debate on the Catholic church’s teaching, but that simple act of protest led to what we now call the Protestant Reformation.
This church and millions of other local churches across the world trace much of their doctrinal roots to what God was doing in the heart of a lowly monk 504 years ago today.
At the conclusion of our service we’ll sing a song together that celebrates some of the key doctrines rediscovered by the Reformers.
2) A word about PBC.
We are Family.
In Christians families, we use our homes to be hospitable
Tonight we’re doing that as a church family
3) Trunk or Treat
Begins tonight at 5, if you’re helping out please arrive between 4 and 4:30.
4) SBCV Homecoming
November 7 at 6 PM featuring Dr. Al Mohler at Liberty in Hampton
Register online
No evening events at PBC
5) Afghan Workshop
November 20, from 9-12.
Please register online or at the blue flag.
Now look in your Bibles at Matthew 5:3-12 as our sister in Christ Addi Figgers comes to read for us.
Scripture Reading (Matthew 5:3-12)
Prayer of Praise (God is sustainer), Addi Figgers
Let the Nations Be Glad
Behold Our God
Prayer of Confession (hate), Eli Dowell
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
New City Catechism #44
Pastoral Prayer (Bubba Jones)
SERMON
Take a moment and think of eight things you wish you were different about you.
A lot of us would say things about our physical appearance...
Lose weight, gain muscle
Straight teeth, white teeth
Ability to grow facial hair, or any hair
Or maybe something about your personality or demeanor...
More outgoing
Think quicker on your feet
Different skills
Better ability to think before you speak
Better memory
More optimistic, more reserved
Liked to read more
Or your physical health...
You’d like the aches and pains to stop
Or the cancer to go away and never come back
Or to finally be free of that medication
Or your circumstances...
More time, more money, better job, better house, a spouse, children, etc. etc.
If Jesus were here, in the flesh, and we could ask Him the same question about you what would He say?
What would He want to be different about you?
Would anything on your lists be the same?
Jesus tells us what He wants of His followers in Matthew 5:3
Incredibly famous portion of Scripture, sometimes called “the Beatitudes”
Not “Be-Attitudes”
From the Latin word beatus, meaning “blessed”
Eight beatitudes, eight statements of each one has a condition and a promise
In these verses, Jesus tells us what He wants to be true of His followers.
He’s describing the character He wants for kingdom citizens.
Before we walk through this passage together, let me suggest a few guardrails to keep us from getting off track along the way:
Kingdom character is counter-cultural.
Upside-down kingdom
From beginning to end, these are traits that the world mocks and rejects
Kevin DeYoung imagined what types of Beatitudes the world might write [1] ...
Blessed are the rich, for theirs is the kingdom of pleasure
Blessed are those who feel good about themselves, for they shall be confident.
Blessed are the aggressive, they shall control the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for recognition, for they shall be noticed.
Blessed are the demanding, for they shall receive what is coming to them.
Blessed are the sexually liberated for they shall be their own gods.
Blessed are the scheming for they shall be called children of the powerful.
Blessed are those who are praised by the world, for theirs is the kingdom of now.
Kingdom character is essential.
5:3—“...theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
5:10—“...theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
You will not go to heaven if these things aren’t true of you!
NOT saying that doing these things is how you get to heaven.
Jesus is simply describing the type of person who has the kingdom.
Kingdom character is supernatural.
This is not a checklist for you to earn God’s favor.
It’s the natural outflow of what happens after you receive God’s favor as a gift.
You cannot do this apart from the Holy Spirit’s help
God works this in you as you grow in your Christian life
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