WEBVTT 00:00:06.679 --> 00:00:12.297 Welcome to the Uncut Podcast. I'm Pastor Luke. And I'm Pastor Cameron. 00:00:12.666 --> 00:00:16.312 And this is the Uncut Podcast where we have uncut, honest conversations about 00:00:16.529 --> 00:00:19.714 faith, life, and ministry. 00:00:21.011 --> 00:00:25.917 Today we're going to have a maybe a slightly shorter episode than normal, 00:00:26.826 --> 00:00:27.096 but we thought it would be worthwhile. 00:00:31.255 --> 00:00:34.523 Kind of a question we got through the text line. 00:00:34.973 --> 00:00:40.330 Somebody texted in and they were asking us kind of our opinion on like their, 00:00:41.409 --> 00:00:47.209 understanding of the B attitudes. I think they pretty much got it right. I think 00:00:47.209 --> 00:00:57.443 they got a very good understanding of the B attitudes but so not we're not necessarily responding to correct or necessarily affirm their understanding, 00:00:58.049 --> 00:01:11.529 But I actually think that like the Beatitudes are one of those passages of scriptures that everybody is familiar with, and we've all probably heard 00:01:11.529 --> 00:01:16.949 sermon series on, and I think one of the ways that they're largely talked about 00:01:16.949 --> 00:01:22.809 is just flat-out wrong. And so I think it's worse like saying, you know what, 00:01:22.809 --> 00:01:27.789 let's take a little bit of time, open passage, and maybe create some clarity 00:01:27.789 --> 00:01:31.183 around a passage that's often misunderstood or mistaught. 00:01:31.904 --> 00:01:40.669 Yeah. So most people are, you might or might not know, the Beatitudes are a section of scripture, 00:01:40.669 --> 00:01:42.265 sayings of Jesus, right? 00:01:42.789 --> 00:01:45.848 Primarily in the Gospel of Matthew, Matthew chapter five. 00:01:46.388 --> 00:01:56.066 And Matthew, his Gospel has several different like chunks of teaching that Jesus. 00:01:57.047 --> 00:02:08.577 Like, does. And Matthew's Gospel is generally considered to be the most Jewish of the Gospels 00:02:08.577 --> 00:02:18.017 in terms of its reliance on Old Testament referencing. It's the importance for Matthew 00:02:18.017 --> 00:02:31.417 as the writer of the gospel to communicate Jesus both as the prophetic fulfillment of the promise from Messiah through David's line as well as to 00:02:31.417 --> 00:02:43.737 begin to establish not to begin to but to firmly establish Jesus as an authoritative teacher and interpreter of the will and heart of God and so several 00:02:43.737 --> 00:02:57.337 different discourses within the gospel and this first section in Matthew chapter 5 through basically the end of chapter 7 are kind of what we call the 00:02:57.337 --> 00:03:02.817 first discourse of Jesus' teaching, better known as the Sermon on the Mount. 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:13.017 Right, which contains like just generally some of the most familiar your teachings of Jesus generally, just like at large, like these would be, 00:03:13.521 --> 00:03:18.177 passages that people who've not read the Bible in a very long time would still be 00:03:18.177 --> 00:03:23.469 like, oh yeah, like I've heard that or something like that. Right, right. And so when you 00:03:23.857 --> 00:03:28.377 approach it, you see that they're seemingly couched, underbracketed on both 00:03:28.377 --> 00:03:33.297 sides with this allusion to Jesus kind of being the new Moses. Yes. You know, he 00:03:33.297 --> 00:03:39.537 He goes up on the mountain top or the mountain side, I think, in Matthew 5, verse 1, 00:03:39.537 --> 00:03:44.129 now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountain side and sat down. 00:03:44.737 --> 00:03:53.937 His disciples came to him and he began to teach them. And then at the end of that discourse, at the end, when Jesus had finished saying these 00:03:53.937 --> 00:03:58.028 things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching because he taught as one who had authority 00:03:58.308 --> 00:04:00.531 and not as their teachers of the law. 00:04:00.864 --> 00:04:04.366 And when he came down the mountainside, large crowds followed him. 00:04:04.617 --> 00:04:10.817 And so there's this going up the mountain, similar to how Moses did to receive the law, right? 00:04:10.817 --> 00:04:15.777 Coming down from the mountain, how Moses brought the Word of God down in the form of the law. 00:04:15.777 --> 00:04:21.057 So Matthew's maybe attempt here to, um, to... 00:04:23.361 --> 00:04:30.891 Portray Jesus as the new Moses, which is appropriate. I think it's more appropriate to say that Moses is the old Jesus. 00:04:34.263 --> 00:04:35.791 Don't think too hard about that. Yeah. 00:04:38.971 --> 00:04:44.331 But no, like, you're hitting a really important thing that I think is worth mentioning, 00:04:46.083 --> 00:04:51.771 especially since you brought it up, is that the Old Testament serves to point forward to the coming 00:04:51.771 --> 00:04:58.839 the fulfillment of Christ, how Christ is a more full, complete type of Moses. 00:04:59.131 --> 00:05:02.197 My point is that, what is the place of reference? 00:05:02.491 --> 00:05:11.211 Is Moses the place of reference for how Jesus should be? Or is Jesus, you know, pre-incarnate Jesus, who Moses is seeking to be? 00:05:11.211 --> 00:05:12.211 That's my point. 00:05:12.324 --> 00:05:15.745 Yes, even if he's unaware of it. 00:05:16.091 --> 00:05:16.789 So, yeah. 00:05:18.451 --> 00:05:22.011 Okay, and so then the Beatitudes exist there right at the beginning. 00:05:22.011 --> 00:05:27.011 It's kind of the prologue to the big section of teaching. 00:05:29.291 --> 00:05:33.451 And they are the blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 00:05:33.451 --> 00:05:35.811 Blessed are those who mourn, for there you will be comforted. 00:05:35.811 --> 00:05:41.131 Blessed are the meek, for they won't hear of the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, 00:05:41.131 --> 00:05:42.122 for they will be filled. 00:05:42.531 --> 00:05:47.541 Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. 00:05:48.131 --> 00:05:51.106 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God. 00:05:51.211 --> 00:05:54.691 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, 00:05:54.691 --> 00:05:56.246 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 00:05:56.813 --> 00:06:03.211 Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil things against you 00:06:03.211 --> 00:06:07.051 because of you. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, 00:06:07.051 --> 00:06:09.939 for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. 00:06:10.893 --> 00:06:23.611 So, what is maybe the classic way that these are used, or interpreted, or understood, or applied? 00:06:23.611 --> 00:06:30.635 And then what is maybe an alternative or appropriate view to them? 00:06:31.220 --> 00:06:35.163 Well, like the classical view, and I know, I've heard. 00:06:36.126 --> 00:06:43.013 I'm sure I've heard sermons on this. I've definitely read books and study guides and stuff on that have like taught this. 00:06:43.103 --> 00:06:53.645 Um but the kind of the most popular popular view of it is like well all of us want to know how to live a blessed life Cameron. 00:06:54.446 --> 00:06:57.624 Right. Right. All of us want to be the blessed of Christ. Right. 00:06:58.128 --> 00:07:06.815 And Christ right here is telling us what you must do or what type of person you must be in order to live that blessed life. 00:07:07.176 --> 00:07:13.477 So therefore, and then it's usually broken up into like weeks or chapters or studies 00:07:13.792 --> 00:07:20.776 of like saying, all right, blessed are the poor in spirit, Cameron, how must we become poor in spirit? 00:07:20.776 --> 00:07:25.009 How do we pursue poverty of spirit? Blessed are those who mourn. 00:07:25.776 --> 00:07:32.895 You know, we really just need to mourn more. Like that is something that we really ought, like if we really want Christ to bless us, 00:07:32.976 --> 00:07:38.728 we ought to like pursue mourning, right? Blessed are the meek, right? 00:07:39.709 --> 00:07:44.967 And particularly those first three, you know, as you kind of go down, some of those become, 00:07:45.732 --> 00:07:53.123 a little bit easier to see or to argue as virtues. How do we put ourselves in a place of being persecuted? 00:07:53.681 --> 00:08:02.736 Yeah. That one's lost its virtue in our modern day, but essentially we interpret the passage as 00:08:02.736 --> 00:08:11.424 a list of virtues to be strived for in order to achieve the blessed life. 00:08:11.816 --> 00:08:19.056 That's the way I would say probably 90% of study material and popular material interacting 00:08:19.056 --> 00:08:20.859 with it talks about it. 00:08:21.776 --> 00:08:33.216 But if we understand the context of Jesus' ministry and the kingdom that he sought to 00:08:33.216 --> 00:08:42.653 bring and the people that he sought to include in the kingdom, and we look at it through 00:08:42.878 --> 00:08:54.416 the lens of the disenfranchised and those who were typically ostracized from community 00:08:54.416 --> 00:09:00.757 or not ostracized from community, then... 00:09:03.736 --> 00:09:10.946 That it maybe makes us have a little bit different approach to understanding? 00:09:10.946 --> 00:09:20.146 Yeah. I think one key thing, or at least an indicator of either a really difficult passage 00:09:20.146 --> 00:09:25.378 to translate or a poor, or not translate, a really difficult passage to interpret, 00:09:25.603 --> 00:09:32.386 or a passage that you're not interpreting very well, is when you have to work really hard to 00:09:32.386 --> 00:09:36.784 to explain away your immediate gut reaction to the text. 00:09:37.246 --> 00:09:44.466 Like sometimes our gut reactions are like wrong, but like all that study material, 00:09:44.466 --> 00:09:49.846 like usually ends up being like, well now that doesn't seem very like, 00:09:50.906 --> 00:09:54.866 you know, like particularly when it comes to like porn spirit or mourning, 00:09:54.866 --> 00:09:57.759 and you're like, well that might seem really, really counterintuitive, 00:09:58.306 --> 00:10:03.786 but let me just give you a whole bunch of reasons that have nothing to do with anything 00:10:03.786 --> 00:10:11.126 I can particularly point out in this passage of why mourning is a Christian virtue. 00:10:12.726 --> 00:10:19.346 Like you end up having to do, like the chapter, like on a book like this, 00:10:19.346 --> 00:10:23.533 would you start out, I can almost like read it or see it in front of me is like, 00:10:24.226 --> 00:10:29.466 well now at first glance, you might think, why would we wanna be poor in spirit? 00:10:29.466 --> 00:10:30.689 Why would we wanna mourn? 00:10:31.306 --> 00:10:36.073 But let me explain to you how this counterintuitive like thing you would never actually want to be, 00:10:36.526 --> 00:10:39.377 is actually a thing that Christ is telling you to strive. 00:10:39.486 --> 00:10:45.966 And then they kind of proof text a bunch of verses to kind of like argue it into a bit of a virtue. 00:10:46.246 --> 00:10:46.614 Yes. 00:10:47.086 --> 00:10:52.086 So that's, you know, not every time is like, I don't know. 00:10:56.326 --> 00:11:03.086 When our understanding of a passage It has very little of the original passage in it for its understanding, 00:11:04.610 --> 00:11:12.966 Or maybe or maybe over complicating it or going in a wrong direction Sometimes not sometimes. Yeah. Yeah, so how would you? 00:11:13.756 --> 00:11:18.206 How would you begin to say or how would you begin to describe or explain? 00:11:19.275 --> 00:11:22.966 Both the heart of what Jesus is communicating here and. 00:11:25.090 --> 00:11:26.026 It's like, 00:11:27.872 --> 00:11:32.502 Maybe it's application for us, but maybe not Yeah 00:11:32.502 --> 00:11:38.818 Well like first is like to kind of take the gut reaction. I think we pointed out like oh. 00:11:40.022 --> 00:11:46.942 Who wants to be persecuted? Yeah, who wants to mourn who wants to be poor in spirit? 00:11:47.434 --> 00:11:53.262 Nobody wants to be those things right, I I don't want to be those things. 00:11:53.262 --> 00:12:01.342 No. And so I think taking that as a starting point is actually a really good place to start. 00:12:02.233 --> 00:12:11.502 Just like you were saying, Christ was trying to talk to disenfranchised, those who were on the 00:12:11.502 --> 00:12:21.022 outside of things. And he's saying, particularly in his context, Matthew in particular has a lot 00:12:21.022 --> 00:12:30.492 to say about what true faith looks like. I'm using my own words to describe his theme here, 00:12:30.996 --> 00:12:36.942 but he talks about the religion or the faith of the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the religious 00:12:36.942 --> 00:12:43.102 leaders, and he is holding up and trying to hold up the Old Testament and holding up Jesus and 00:12:43.102 --> 00:12:49.022 saying, which of these is more faithful to the faith that God has called us to in the Old 00:12:49.022 --> 00:12:55.822 Testament in some way. And Christ, his argument is Christ is, right? Christ is giving this 00:12:55.822 --> 00:13:01.742 interpretation of the Old Testament up on the mount. And Christ's big thing is saying, like. 00:13:02.864 --> 00:13:10.542 Look, the way that you've sought to apply the law of God has been on a surface level. 00:13:11.245 --> 00:13:15.053 Let me perhaps bring it to a heart level. Maybe, perhaps, let me. 00:13:16.106 --> 00:13:21.636 Turn things upside down and show that the most religious or the most faithful person who's 00:13:21.636 --> 00:13:27.796 following God is not the person who's got their life kind of together in this very religious sense. 00:13:27.796 --> 00:13:33.556 It's not the Pharisee who tithes out of their spice cabinet. It's the person like, 00:13:33.556 --> 00:13:40.196 I would rather—or God is more happy or more concerned with the person who's persecuted for 00:13:40.196 --> 00:13:43.756 for my sake, with the person who is mourning. 00:13:43.756 --> 00:13:49.865 God is close to the brokenhearted and to the weak, a bruised reed he will not break. 00:13:50.436 --> 00:13:55.836 Like he's going into all of those places, rather than saying like, 00:13:55.836 --> 00:13:59.560 oh, you just need to keep the law outwardly more. 00:14:01.116 --> 00:14:05.676 I think that leads us to a closer way. How would you kind of begin to kind of summarize that? 00:14:05.676 --> 00:14:08.036 I would say it's really similar to that. 00:14:08.036 --> 00:14:14.416 Rather than it being a thing, these different beatitudes, something that we actively pursue. 00:14:14.416 --> 00:14:21.376 Not that you don't pursue them or that you avoid them. But that I think what it is, 00:14:21.376 --> 00:14:26.252 is it's like a opening volley, 00:14:26.976 --> 00:14:30.690 into the Jewish community at the time. 00:14:32.816 --> 00:14:37.243 About who is and who is not blessed according to God. Yeah. 00:14:38.096 --> 00:14:48.156 Right, so like if the theme of Jesus, one of the themes of Jesus' ministry is, 00:14:51.176 --> 00:14:57.949 giving access to the kingdom of God through faith in him faith in Him, too. 00:14:58.993 --> 00:15:03.843 The ones in which the worldly systems seem to exclude. 00:15:09.323 --> 00:15:15.656 And you see that in, begin to see that even in the beginning of the genealogy of Jesus, 00:15:15.763 --> 00:15:20.301 the inclusion of women in Jesus' genealogy in Matthew, 00:15:20.763 --> 00:15:25.763 non-Jewish women, one of which was a prostitute, right? 00:15:26.043 --> 00:15:29.243 You begin to see like, why would Jesus want to associate himself 00:15:29.243 --> 00:15:31.068 with a non-Jewish prostitute woman, 00:15:31.723 --> 00:15:39.836 pretty much the most excluded class of people in the context that Jesus was actually living in, 00:15:40.123 --> 00:15:45.123 if not to say that Jesus was the cornerstone. 00:15:46.463 --> 00:15:54.726 Of a new, more perfect kingdom that represents the actual heart of God 00:15:54.883 --> 00:16:01.937 apart from the man-made structures that seek to exclude those who are poor in spirit, 00:16:02.523 --> 00:16:07.523 or brokenhearted or meek or suffering persecution, 00:16:08.083 --> 00:16:11.254 because God's definitely not with those people. 00:16:11.403 --> 00:16:18.363 If you're poor in spirit, God, that's an example of someone who is obviously disobedient to God 00:16:18.363 --> 00:16:24.523 and he's punishing them and they're on the outskirts of good, faithful, religious life. 00:16:24.683 --> 00:16:31.086 When Jesus is coming around the back end, He was like, no, like blessed are those people as well. 00:16:32.094 --> 00:16:37.944 Blessed are those who the world says are on the outskirts of religious life. 00:16:37.944 --> 00:16:41.784 So yeah, he's turning to the crowd. And in a sense, he is saying. 00:16:42.582 --> 00:16:48.504 Do you happen to be one of these things? Because if you are, my kingdom has a place for you. And 00:16:48.504 --> 00:16:54.584 inside of that kingdom, you will be blessed. I think one of the reason one of the things that 00:16:54.584 --> 00:16:59.704 like, maybe so like, when the original readers were reading this, they would have been like, 00:17:00.424 --> 00:17:01.703 Like, oh, why? 00:17:01.984 --> 00:17:06.144 That's so, like, I would never ever classify someone who is poor in spirit. 00:17:06.144 --> 00:17:12.992 It would have been so jarring to hear somebody to say that, blessed or merciful, right? 00:17:13.064 --> 00:17:18.764 The fact that we're kind of like, well, no, merciful is like a thing, like, is actually a testament 00:17:18.764 --> 00:17:23.299 to how much the teachings of Christ and the gospel have impacted virtues. 00:17:23.864 --> 00:17:30.654 Like, what we consider to be a virtue or to be a thing to be strived after now, 00:17:31.203 --> 00:17:36.524 the fact that we're even like, why would being merciful ever be a virtue? 00:17:36.924 --> 00:17:42.724 It would be more of a virtue to be just, right? Because you want to be trampled over, 00:17:42.724 --> 00:17:44.924 like you want to get what's yours. 00:17:44.924 --> 00:17:50.405 So the fact that we even can conceive of being merciful as a virtue, 00:17:51.084 --> 00:17:54.960 is a testament to Christ's impact on our thinking. 00:17:55.164 --> 00:18:01.804 Or even what the, like, I was thinking of, it's not even as benign as like, 00:18:01.804 --> 00:18:06.672 oh, the meek, they'll be included in the kingdom too. 00:18:08.044 --> 00:18:17.124 It's that, it's almost like the, the Jesus is over-correcting on a cultural assumption, 00:18:17.844 --> 00:18:22.921 by saying, not only are the weak included in the kingdom, they'll inherit the earth. 00:18:23.993 --> 00:18:29.442 You know, it's not just the, okay, yeah, you can come and join us. 00:18:29.442 --> 00:18:33.762 Right. Cause you don't like the meek, the meek is not the person who's out there and like making 00:18:33.762 --> 00:18:38.783 the best business deals and like getting what's theirs. They're just like, Oh yeah. 00:18:38.828 --> 00:18:40.773 Yeah. They don't have the lion energy. 00:18:41.268 --> 00:18:47.442 Right. Yeah. They're just kind of, you know, they're very passive. But Jesus is saying, 00:18:47.442 --> 00:18:51.566 despite the fact that they're being passive, they will inherit earth. 00:18:51.837 --> 00:19:01.282 Yes. Or like, and this is not atypical of the ministry of Jesus. Just the first example is, 00:19:02.402 --> 00:19:06.642 when the disciples try and stop the children from coming to Jesus, 00:19:06.642 --> 00:19:09.922 the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these, he says, let them come. 00:19:11.056 --> 00:19:16.562 Right. So it's not just that, oh, no, they get to take part or they get to be in it, but it's like 00:19:16.719 --> 00:19:23.975 there is something about the disenfranchised or the way in which the world disenfranchises people 00:19:24.164 --> 00:19:28.642 and the way in which God includes them and blesses them. 00:19:28.642 --> 00:19:35.282 Yeah. And I think that understanding of the passage, it doesn't preclude you from perhaps 00:19:35.282 --> 00:19:42.722 saying, okay, maybe I do need to strive to be more merciful and maybe I need to grow in my meekness 00:19:42.722 --> 00:19:47.762 and I need to learn what it means to mourn with those who are mourning." Like, it doesn't preclude 00:19:47.762 --> 00:19:56.482 you from potentially pursuing those virtues in your life, but it makes more sense of the passage. 00:19:57.418 --> 00:20:06.402 To kind of take the pressure off of saying, this is a list of things that Jesus says that you must 00:20:06.672 --> 00:20:13.202 become or become like, to say, well, Jesus is saying is that, do you happen to find yourself 00:20:13.202 --> 00:20:19.682 in a place of disenfranchisement, of being an outsider, of being maybe not what the world would 00:20:19.682 --> 00:20:28.377 say is best, or beautiful, or good, or wise? Well, good for you because I have a place for you 00:20:28.548 --> 00:20:34.642 in my kingdom. And I think, and that relieves some of the awkward tension that I think often 00:20:34.642 --> 00:20:40.642 gets put on that passage of saying, well, we got to find out why we must become that, 00:20:40.809 --> 00:20:41.457 or something like that. 00:20:41.844 --> 00:20:47.543 Right, yeah, which is, if you take that, if you take that stance or that approach, 00:20:47.975 --> 00:20:51.063 you'll find that it's really difficult to make sense of it. 00:20:51.360 --> 00:20:55.546 Yes, you end up kind of contorting it a little bit, doing some gymnastics, 00:20:55.807 --> 00:20:58.242 pretzel stuff. Like, well, it must mean that I have to do this. 00:20:58.242 --> 00:21:03.162 Well, it because what does it mean like do I must I seek out mourning? 00:21:05.034 --> 00:21:10.499 I don't think that's actually what Christ is saying, but blessed when you do mourn. 00:21:10.751 --> 00:21:15.783 Yeah. Yeah. You're not in a disadvantageous position when you mourn. Right. Yeah. 00:21:16.548 --> 00:21:18.484 You know, like you will receive comfort. 00:21:19.438 --> 00:21:23.764 Absolutely. And I think that honors the passage a little bit better. 00:21:23.764 --> 00:21:24.724 Yeah. I think so too. 00:21:27.684 --> 00:21:32.724 There's one author, I think it's Dallas Willard. Dallas Willard. 00:21:32.724 --> 00:21:38.484 Spends a significant amount of time on this passage and particularly this misunderstanding 00:21:38.484 --> 00:21:44.644 of the passage in Divine Conspiracy. And he goes through and he makes a list of like, 00:21:44.644 --> 00:21:51.284 what would be the modern day, like, blessed are the, do you have any that like, kind of come to 00:21:51.284 --> 00:21:57.844 your mind? I mean, I've read it. I don't. I mean, like, not one specifically from him, like, but 00:21:57.844 --> 00:22:01.484 but like what would you kind of like place in there? 00:22:01.757 --> 00:22:02.946 Like blessed are the, 00:22:05.184 --> 00:22:12.173 like. Mentally ill. Mentally ill. Mm-hmm. Blessed are the people who don't have it all together. Mm-hmm. 00:22:14.784 --> 00:22:18.124 Yeah. Blessed are the. 00:22:24.424 --> 00:22:27.468 Yeah, I don't know. Like the one, like plus or the lonely. 00:22:30.704 --> 00:22:34.967 A lot of lonely people. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. 00:22:37.584 --> 00:22:46.193 So. But that I think gives a better flavor for where the, at least we think the passage. 00:22:46.304 --> 00:22:50.824 Right, I would never want to go back and be like, okay, let me reword Jesus things here 00:22:50.824 --> 00:22:52.664 and like make my own list of beatitudes. 00:22:52.664 --> 00:22:58.064 I'm not trying to say like our list is equivalent to Christ's list or anything like that. 00:22:58.064 --> 00:23:05.284 The thrust of the argument remains the same if you take the heart of what Jesus is saying 00:23:05.284 --> 00:23:07.024 and you contextualize it today. 00:23:07.969 --> 00:23:15.153 Right. So if we take the passage to mean, blessed are those who you would not think are blessed 00:23:15.288 --> 00:23:18.864 or belong to the kingdom. The depressed or the anxious or the addicted or... 00:23:18.864 --> 00:23:20.878 Yes, blessed or addicted. I like it. 00:23:22.571 --> 00:23:29.467 Those that it we could perhaps make an application point Yes And say well 00:23:29.899 --> 00:23:35.185 Then might there also be ways in which Christ wants to bless you if you are mentally ill 00:23:35.465 --> 00:23:40.585 If you were struggling with addiction if your family is broken if you do not have it all together, 00:23:41.185 --> 00:23:44.203 There is blessing for you in the kingdom. Yep. 00:23:46.103 --> 00:23:54.605 You know blessed or not the go-getters You know, like, however, we want to kind of talk about that. 00:23:54.605 --> 00:24:01.325 But I think that gives a better picture of the upside down kingdom that Christ is presenting. 00:24:01.677 --> 00:24:08.445 And that acts as the sort of the attention getter, but kind of the preamble to them him 00:24:08.445 --> 00:24:16.278 kind of re-explaining and expanding upon like the heart and the intention behind the law that Moses gave. 00:24:16.485 --> 00:24:23.485 Yeah. So that's our quick fly bio, the Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount, you know, 00:24:24.993 --> 00:24:30.925 there've been entire books as thick as the Bible written on those things. So we're not going to 00:24:30.925 --> 00:24:37.182 cover it all in a 30 minute podcast, but no, I hope maybe that cleared up a little bit of 00:24:37.326 --> 00:24:42.700 any questions for you, or at least give me a different perspective through which to read the 00:24:42.871 --> 00:24:48.925 Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes. And I encourage you to continue to explore. 00:24:50.811 --> 00:24:57.085 God's Word and its context, of course. And all that came just from a question that we received 00:24:57.085 --> 00:25:02.925 in the text line. So if you have any questions or anything, any topics that you'd like us to 00:25:02.925 --> 00:25:05.805 to, you know, to try and tackle here. 00:25:05.805 --> 00:25:15.081 You can text us at 716-201-0507, and we will do our best to address those. 00:25:15.965 --> 00:25:21.716 As always, thanks for listening and watching. You can like it, rate it, subscribe, share. 00:25:22.205 --> 00:25:24.365 Do all the things. 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