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Thanks to all who haves served and fought for our freedom!

Introduction

Good morning and welcome to FCC where we worship God in Spirit and in Truth, one verse at a time, one book at a time.

If you are new to FCC, we give you a special welcome and wanted you to know that we are a Bible teaching church that teaches exposition.

Exposition simply means to explain the Biblical text at hand.

TODAY, is communion Sunday and we have a special treat.

Sister Vickie Knowles made fresh unleavened bread:)

Here at FCC, we welcome all to take communion with us provided you have accepted Jesus as you Lord and Savior.

I will open us with prayer and during my prayer I will pause so we can allow the Lord to search our hearts.

Because we always want to take communion in a worthy manner.

Then after I pray, please come forward as the Spirit leads to get the cup and bread and return to your seat as we like to take as a family.

Prayer

Lord God, as we come to the table this morning we come with grateful hearts, hearts that are grateful for the freedom that we have in Christ, grateful for the Cross and it implications that will carry us to eternity, as we take of the elements today, may the gospel become more real to us and may you grow us in grace evermore.

Please search our hearts and help us to confess anything that would stop us from taking communion in a worthy manner.

PAUSE

Lord, thank you for your generous Holy Spirit and his promptings.

Be with us now as we remember your sacrifice.

In Jesus Name, We Love You! Amen!!!

Communion

We have come as far as Matthew 5:8, so let us open are Bibles there:

Read Matthew 5:1-8

Prayer

Lord Heavenly Father, we thank you for the freedom that we have in Jesus and for the men and women that have laid their lives down for this great nation.

Our hearts are heavy this morning Lord because of the news of sickness that we received this past week.

Lord, Laura Stubbs has stage 4 cancer, Franca and Craig recieved news that Craigs condition will not get better, but worse.

We recieved news that brother Ronnie Scroggin’s cancer treatments have stopped and that he has been given 6 months to a year to live.

Bill Sagger fell and hit his head and is waiting to hear from the neurologist.

And Richard and Janice Young’s son fell after having a seizure and Ernie has Covid Father.

Lord this is much to bear, but your Word says that you will never ever give us too much, so we trust you with the outcomes and we trust you with our lives.

We cry out to you for everyone who has recieved difficult news and ask for healing, for hope, and for salvation.

God we ask that you would show up today in a special way, that you would fill us with your spirit and that you would give us mercy and grace in our time of need.

Please comfort the faint in heart and lift up the downcast and broken.

In Jesus Name, We Lobe You, amen!!!

Review

Wow!

That is a lot of nuggets for us to grasp.

But thanks be to God who gives us everything that pertains to life and godliness.

Over that past few weeks, we have been in the beatitudes and what Jesus is teaching us and his listeners that are willing to listen is how to enter his Kingdom and not only how to enter, but how to stay in His Kingdom, but also how to live the Kingdom out in our daily lives.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Jesus said, I am the bread of life church!

If you eat this bread you will never hunger.

Jesus said to the woman at the well, if you drink of the water that I have you will never thirst again.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Grace begotten, is grace bestowed.

God gives to us church freely, so we can give to others the very thing that He has given to us like: mercy, grace, forgiveness, love, patience and longsuffering which means to suffer long.

When we look at the beatitudes what we see is aa natural progression that leads to a person becoming a mature disciple of Jesus Christ.

Church, you cannot chose which beatitudes you want to be true in your life, and leave the others to one side.

The beatitudes come as a whole, not as a series of options.

Every Christina is intended to show every grace.

one beatitude flows into the next, as we already have seen; the poor in spirit mourn for their sins, and as a result are marked by meekness of those who know the truth about themselves in the presence of God.

Such men and women hunger and thirst for righteousness and receive it.

Since they have been filled only because of the Lord’s mercy, they become merciful to others.

Therefore, mercy begotten is mercy bestowed !

Did the Lord give you an opportunity to be merciful this past week?

So we come to our text and it seems to be a little uncomfortable, because how can we be pure in heart?

It is important for us to remember what the word blessed means in the Greek as we continue our study:

Blessed- makarios- (mak-ar'-ee-os) — characterized by happiness and being highly favored (as by divine grace).

Fortunate, or well-off.

So then what jesus is teaching is that if you want to be happy and highly favored by divine grace, fortunate and well-off in this life, then you must have these beatitudes operating in your life.

The world system try’s to convince us that those who have an abundance of wealth and materialism will make you happy, but we all know that this is not true, right?

Look around church, read and watch the news and you will quickly find out that true happiness is not found in people, places, and things, it is not found in wealth or materialism, but only in the living God.

Jesus is giving us the prescription for happiness if you may.

But we must remember:

God’s ways are opposite to the worlds ways church for he uses the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.

Blessed are the poor in spirit?

Blessed are those who mourn?

Blessed are the meek?

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness?

Blessed are the pure in heart?

Really , Jesus???

We try to fix the human dilemma with everything under the sun, only to end up high and dry, empty and unsatisfied seeking for our next fix that will never ever fill us full like Jesus church!

So what does it mean to be pure in heart?

Well, the first thing we need to look at would be the word pure in the original language.

Pure- kath-a-ros- (guiltless) adj.

— in a state of ritual cleanliness or free of guilt and sin.

Spotless, clear of debt, without blemish, to purify with fire.

What come your mind when you hear this definition?

I will never be pure in this life!

There is no way I can ever measure up to this!

Man, have I missed the mark on this one!

Let’s look a little closer at this word:

The term “pure” is the Greek word from which we get “catharsis,” which means a cleansing of the mind or emotions.

Scholars suggest that the word basically has two meanings.

First, it means “to make pure by cleansing from dirt, filth, or contamination” and was most often used to describe metals that had been refined by fire until they were free from impurities.

It was also used for soiled clothes that had been washed clean, and of grain that had been carefully sifted to remove all impurities.

Second, it refers to being “unmixed, as having no double allegiance.”

In his commentary on this passage, Warren Weirsbe writes that the “basic idea is that of integrity, singleness of heart, as opposed to duplicity, or a divided heart.”

Jesus said it this way:

James said it this way:

Church, Jesus wants us to be single-minded in the depth of our being.

Let’s put these two definitions together.

A person with a passion for purity is one who has been cleansed in character so that the way he or she looks in public is the way he or she is in private.