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Rev. Will B Dunn started to preach the beatitudes.
"Happy are those... Money can't buy happiness.
Money can't buy laughter or love.
What if I offered $100 not to love your mom or dad?"
The congregation got silent.
Little Sally stood up.
"How much not to love my sister Anna?" <sigh> Rev. Will B Dunn is wrong from the start.
Blessed doesn't mean happy.
Happiness depends on what happens.
Blessed doesn't.
It means God approves.
He's shining His face on you, regardless of what happens.
Very different!
The beatitudes are a staircase.
Each steps up into kingdom character.
In each beatitude, they & theirs are intensive.
They alone attain the blessing.
It's theirs alone.
Let's look at Mt 5:1-12.
Who does Jesus teach?
His 1disciples.
Us.
2Jesus began to teach.
Remember what the Father said at Jesus' transfiguration?
Listen to Him! Let's do!
To enter God's approval, how do we start?
3Blessed are the beggars in spirit, for theirs alone is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who know they're spiritually bankrupt.
Those who confess needing a Savior.
The 1st stairstep is humility.
Step up.
Realize our poverty.
Our need.
Mk 10:15: we enter only as needy children.
Start there.
Humility's blessing?
The KoH (KoG).
In Christ, it's theirs alone.
Just admit (confess) our spiritual bankruptcy, & it's ours.
Admit our spiritual need, & we'll see the next step up.
4Blessed are those always mourning, for they alone will be comforted.
Remember the times we really messed up.
Times we thought we were strong & fell.
Our moral failures.
All our sins.
Our sin.
Take an honest look.
Tell me you haven't started mourning with me.
As we mourn, look what Jesus says in Lk 18:10-14.
Mourn with that tax collector, & we're forgiven!
Mourn, & instantly we're comforted.
Will be comforted is future only in sequence.
One more thing.
Comfort is a Greek verb form of paraclete.
Mourn our sin, & we'll be "Holy Spirited."
He comes alongside.
Immediately!
He frees us from sins' guilt (unlike unbelievers).
It's real comfort!
To reach the next stair step, realize our poverty of spirit.
Keep mourning for our sin.
As we do, we'll see the next step up into Kingdom character.
5Blessed are the meek, for they alone will inherit the earth.
We think the most powerful are blessed.
Jesus says we don't understand power!
Meek isn't weak, cowardly, timid, shy, "nice," spineless, insecure, unsure, or peace at any cost.
Meek = gentleness under great self-control.
Velvet iron.
Tender steel.
Like Jesus.
He's meek.
Our all-powerful God chose to stay on the cross.
The meek alone inherit the earth.
Co-heirs with Christ, they'll reign with Him, forever!
Are we meek?
Saying so isn't meek.
Rather, what we do when someone calls us a filthy sinner.
Are we strong enough to stay silent?
In His trials, Jesus could've unmade his foes.
He was silent.
Meek.
Start by confessing our spiritual bankruptcy.
Take a step up & mourn for our sin.
Receive His Spirit's forgiveness, comfort & meekness (His fruit).
We'll then see another step into KoG character.
6Blessed are those who keep hungering & thirsting for righteousness, for they alone will be filled.
More than any other way, spiritually we become what we eat.
In our spiritual poverty, are we parched & starving for righteousness?
When Jesus regenerates us, He fills us with His righteousness.
We work it out by the way we treat others, especially the poor, disadvantaged, & oppressed.
As we keep working it out, & we'll get more & more filled.
Yet as righteousness fills us, our hunger for it increases & intensifies all the more!
Jesus gives us the menu, the hunger, the thirst, our fullness, & more hunger.
As we lean into hunger & thirst for righteousness, the next step up into kingdom character will appear.
Confessing our spiritual bankruptcy.
Mourning all sin-others' & ours.
Humbly meek.
And starving for righteousness.
We're ready for the Spirit's next work in us.
7Blessed are the merciful, for they alone will be shown mercy.
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