1 00:00:02,402 --> 00:00:04,771 A man. 2 00:00:04,771 --> 00:00:08,441 You may experience couple drops as if it keeps raining. 3 00:00:08,508 --> 00:00:10,410 Got a couple little leaks. 4 00:00:10,410 --> 00:00:12,912 But I just want to make clear that if you do get sprinkle today, 5 00:00:12,912 --> 00:00:13,613 that doesn't count. 6 00:00:13,613 --> 00:00:16,616 You still got to get baptized. 7 00:00:16,616 --> 00:00:17,917 In this series, 8 00:00:17,917 --> 00:00:20,920 going through the book of Matthew, we're in chapter five today, 9 00:00:21,488 --> 00:00:24,991 and we're going to look at the first portion of that chapter 10 00:00:25,992 --> 00:00:28,762 and what are called the Beatitudes. 11 00:00:28,762 --> 00:00:31,231 Chapters five, six, and seven 12 00:00:31,231 --> 00:00:34,234 are commonly known as the sermon on the Mount. 13 00:00:34,801 --> 00:00:37,437 It's a message Jesus preached 14 00:00:37,437 --> 00:00:40,173 to those who would follow him, 15 00:00:40,173 --> 00:00:42,242 who were learning to follow him. 16 00:00:42,242 --> 00:00:46,579 And as I've been preparing for this message, 17 00:00:46,579 --> 00:00:49,582 I've really been struggling, 18 00:00:50,917 --> 00:00:54,587 with the preparation of it and now the preaching of it. 19 00:00:54,587 --> 00:00:55,355 And here's why. 20 00:00:56,823 --> 00:00:59,826 This is a sermon Jesus preached 21 00:01:00,994 --> 00:01:04,531 and for someone to 22 00:01:05,131 --> 00:01:09,202 to have the audacity to try to explain 23 00:01:09,502 --> 00:01:12,405 what Jesus meant. 24 00:01:12,405 --> 00:01:15,408 That's a struggle for me. 25 00:01:15,475 --> 00:01:19,579 I've debated just not teaching through Matthew five 26 00:01:19,579 --> 00:01:22,816 six and seven and and just telling you as a church, study it on your own. 27 00:01:22,816 --> 00:01:27,720 Like who am I to try to explain what Jesus's intent was in this? 28 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:28,221 You understand? 29 00:01:28,221 --> 00:01:31,224 I'm saying, like the other parts of Scripture, I get 30 00:01:31,691 --> 00:01:36,029 in all the epistles that that the Apostle Paul wrote 31 00:01:36,396 --> 00:01:39,399 in the historical documents in the old Testament 32 00:01:39,432 --> 00:01:43,636 and then all the rest of you, we can read those and glean truth 33 00:01:43,636 --> 00:01:48,141 from them and and try to understand what the original author's intent was 34 00:01:48,641 --> 00:01:51,644 when they penned, and, and, and interpret Scripture 35 00:01:51,945 --> 00:01:53,513 through a scripture, which is appropriate. 36 00:01:53,513 --> 00:01:56,749 And you're supposed to do that and, and kind of glean truths from Scripture. 37 00:01:56,883 --> 00:01:59,552 And the gods are in the revelation of God's heart, and that's all fine. 38 00:01:59,552 --> 00:02:03,690 But when we're looking at a sermon Jesus preached 39 00:02:05,091 --> 00:02:05,358 and the 40 00:02:05,358 --> 00:02:08,761 arrogance to say, let me tell you what Jesus meant. 41 00:02:09,362 --> 00:02:11,764 It just feels odd to me. 42 00:02:11,764 --> 00:02:13,833 You understand what I'm saying? 43 00:02:13,833 --> 00:02:16,202 Like when I let these Jesus words just be Jesus 44 00:02:16,202 --> 00:02:19,205 words like you knew what he was saying. 45 00:02:19,506 --> 00:02:22,509 And so I've really been struggling with, 46 00:02:23,143 --> 00:02:28,448 with even the work of, of, of this message. 47 00:02:28,848 --> 00:02:30,750 But we're going to do it. 48 00:02:30,750 --> 00:02:33,953 And by God's grace, you'll have mercy on my soul. 49 00:02:35,255 --> 00:02:37,290 Not truly, 50 00:02:37,290 --> 00:02:39,893 you you can 51 00:02:39,893 --> 00:02:43,363 you can misrepresent and misspeak on people's behalf all you want. 52 00:02:43,363 --> 00:02:46,366 But this is Jesus. 53 00:02:46,466 --> 00:02:49,369 And to misrepresent 54 00:02:49,369 --> 00:02:52,372 his his spoken word and his message 55 00:02:53,473 --> 00:02:56,176 and to think that we 56 00:02:56,176 --> 00:02:59,179 that I that you would listen to me 57 00:02:59,879 --> 00:03:02,582 as far as what his intent was, is 58 00:03:02,582 --> 00:03:03,716 it's a little bit scary. 59 00:03:03,716 --> 00:03:06,719 And so I appreciate your prayers as we go through this and Holy Spirit, 60 00:03:06,719 --> 00:03:09,789 just do the interpretation that I'm a mess up. 61 00:03:12,725 --> 00:03:14,961 Matthew five, 62 00:03:14,961 --> 00:03:17,964 we're going to look at the first, 63 00:03:19,165 --> 00:03:19,933 probably 16 64 00:03:19,933 --> 00:03:23,002 verses or so, and Matthew five one and two. 65 00:03:23,036 --> 00:03:25,471 Let me just read these two verses. 66 00:03:25,471 --> 00:03:28,474 Seeing the crowds, he Jesus went up on the mountain. 67 00:03:29,042 --> 00:03:32,045 And when he sat down, his disciples came to him. 68 00:03:32,278 --> 00:03:33,279 And he opened his mouth. 69 00:03:33,279 --> 00:03:36,282 And he taught them, saying, those are the first two verses, 70 00:03:37,150 --> 00:03:40,153 of Matthew five. 71 00:03:40,386 --> 00:03:43,256 I want us to understand that we didn't go through the sermon on the Mount. 72 00:03:43,256 --> 00:03:45,625 Matthew five six and seven, 73 00:03:45,625 --> 00:03:49,562 the sermon that Jesus preacher does not necessarily do with salvation. 74 00:03:50,230 --> 00:03:50,496 Okay? 75 00:03:50,496 --> 00:03:53,366 He's not dealing with salvation issues. 76 00:03:53,366 --> 00:03:57,303 It details how the disciples of Jesus live ethically in their daily lives. 77 00:03:57,303 --> 00:03:58,838 That's what he's talking about. 78 00:03:58,838 --> 00:04:01,507 In essence, he's saying, look, you want to follow me? 79 00:04:01,507 --> 00:04:05,812 Let me tell you the implications of how you live now daily. 80 00:04:05,845 --> 00:04:09,515 These are the ethical implications of how you live. 81 00:04:10,617 --> 00:04:11,417 This is what I 82 00:04:11,417 --> 00:04:14,687 expect the beatitudes that we're going to look at. 83 00:04:14,687 --> 00:04:16,689 He's going to say, blessed are the blessed are the. Blessed are the. 84 00:04:16,689 --> 00:04:18,992 That's commonly known as the Beatitudes. 85 00:04:18,992 --> 00:04:21,160 Everybody say Beatitudes. 86 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:22,295 Beatitudes. 87 00:04:22,295 --> 00:04:26,432 The Beatitudes are literally the blessings, okay? 88 00:04:26,866 --> 00:04:29,702 They're the be attitudes, the attitudes 89 00:04:29,702 --> 00:04:32,672 that should be in disciples lives. 90 00:04:33,306 --> 00:04:36,709 They give the disciple their be attitudes. 91 00:04:38,144 --> 00:04:41,281 How what are attitude as we go 92 00:04:41,281 --> 00:04:44,384 daily through this life and interact with each other and with God, 93 00:04:45,451 --> 00:04:50,990 they're the standard expectation for every disciple as we read through these. 94 00:04:51,157 --> 00:04:53,359 Blessed are the. Blessed are the, blessed are the. 95 00:04:53,359 --> 00:04:57,297 This is Jesus's expectation for every person 96 00:04:57,297 --> 00:04:59,198 who would say, I'm a citizen of the kingdom. 97 00:04:59,198 --> 00:05:02,201 I'm a follower of Jesus. So get ready. 98 00:05:02,235 --> 00:05:04,904 Jesus knew what he wanted from his people. 99 00:05:04,904 --> 00:05:07,440 He knew his expectation. 100 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:11,411 If we're going to follow him, he said, I'm going to tell you what I expect of you. 101 00:05:11,411 --> 00:05:12,445 There's your attitude, 102 00:05:14,247 --> 00:05:16,449 and these beatitudes will 103 00:05:16,449 --> 00:05:21,287 produce the Greek word Makarios, literally translated happiness. 104 00:05:21,321 --> 00:05:23,122 It's not it's not happy. 105 00:05:23,122 --> 00:05:25,992 Like, oh, I got a new puppy happy. 106 00:05:25,992 --> 00:05:30,763 It's a joy that is serene and untouchable. 107 00:05:31,631 --> 00:05:33,933 It's a joy that is independent 108 00:05:33,933 --> 00:05:36,936 of the chances and changes of life. 109 00:05:37,270 --> 00:05:40,273 It's constant and consistent. 110 00:05:40,506 --> 00:05:42,909 That's what these beatitudes will produce. 111 00:05:42,909 --> 00:05:45,912 That's why Jesus starts them with blessed are the. 112 00:05:46,612 --> 00:05:50,483 These are the attitudes that's going to produce this serene 113 00:05:51,984 --> 00:05:57,323 and untouchable joy and contentment in life. 114 00:05:59,692 --> 00:06:02,662 The Bible says Jesus sat down 115 00:06:02,662 --> 00:06:04,397 and he taught 116 00:06:04,397 --> 00:06:06,499 in that culture 117 00:06:06,499 --> 00:06:10,203 when what a when a rabbi would teach, he would sit 118 00:06:10,870 --> 00:06:13,573 and the hearers would stand. 119 00:06:13,573 --> 00:06:16,576 When a rabbi would preach, he would stand. 120 00:06:16,776 --> 00:06:19,278 And so the teaching position 121 00:06:19,278 --> 00:06:23,449 in the New Testament for rabbis was to sit, and he touched. 122 00:06:23,449 --> 00:06:28,688 So Jesus sits down, and they're probably standing, and he teaches them. 123 00:06:29,756 --> 00:06:32,925 And he opened his mouth and he taught them. 124 00:06:33,526 --> 00:06:36,662 Verse two says, he taught them that verb to teach 125 00:06:36,963 --> 00:06:39,832 is in the imperfect tense in Greek, 126 00:06:39,832 --> 00:06:42,835 which literally means 127 00:06:43,035 --> 00:06:47,173 He used to teach them in an ongoing manner. 128 00:06:47,573 --> 00:06:52,378 This wasn't a message Jesus taught on a weekend and then never came back to it. 129 00:06:52,845 --> 00:06:57,016 The implication is that this message that we'll look through in chapters five, 130 00:06:57,016 --> 00:07:02,955 six, and seven is the message that Jesus continually brought his disciples back to. 131 00:07:02,989 --> 00:07:04,690 He continually taught them. 132 00:07:04,690 --> 00:07:07,693 He continually reminded them 133 00:07:07,860 --> 00:07:11,597 it was so important and so central to what it is 134 00:07:11,597 --> 00:07:16,202 to be a follower of Jesus, that it's the message he started with. 135 00:07:16,469 --> 00:07:19,605 And he continued for three years of his public ministry. 136 00:07:19,639 --> 00:07:25,778 Continue to teach them over and over and over because they had to get it. 137 00:07:27,113 --> 00:07:28,548 These are the attitudes that 138 00:07:28,548 --> 00:07:32,251 would shape their life, that would shape what it meant for them to follow Jesus. 139 00:07:32,418 --> 00:07:33,586 They had to get it. 140 00:07:33,586 --> 00:07:37,023 And so he continually brought them back to it 141 00:07:37,023 --> 00:07:39,992 over and over and over. 142 00:07:40,193 --> 00:07:43,196 And he starts in verse three, blessed are the 143 00:07:44,297 --> 00:07:46,599 what he's saying 144 00:07:46,599 --> 00:07:51,270 is right now, this these are the things that I expect. 145 00:07:51,270 --> 00:07:54,540 And right now these are the, the, the results of these things. 146 00:07:54,540 --> 00:07:57,243 He's not saying, blessed will you be you. 147 00:07:57,243 --> 00:07:59,312 Some blessed are you. 148 00:07:59,312 --> 00:08:03,049 And so the blessings that accompany these beatitudes, 149 00:08:03,182 --> 00:08:06,452 he says, are yours, right now, happy right now, content right now. 150 00:08:07,787 --> 00:08:10,790 Now, as he moves through these Beatitudes, 151 00:08:11,390 --> 00:08:13,893 in essence, there's nine of them. 152 00:08:13,893 --> 00:08:16,829 I would encourage you to memorize them in order. 153 00:08:17,897 --> 00:08:20,800 If these are the attitudes that Jesus says, this is what I want 154 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,803 for my people, shouldn't we know what those attitudes are? 155 00:08:25,471 --> 00:08:27,273 Yeah, let me ask that again. 156 00:08:27,273 --> 00:08:30,109 As if it's not rhetorical, 157 00:08:30,109 --> 00:08:33,713 if these are the attitudes that you said, these have to characterize 158 00:08:33,846 --> 00:08:36,883 my followers, shouldn't we know what these are? 159 00:08:37,750 --> 00:08:40,753 Okay, so to repeat them to me from memory right now go. 160 00:08:42,889 --> 00:08:43,556 So I thought 161 00:08:43,556 --> 00:08:45,558 and so this is why we have to study this over 162 00:08:45,558 --> 00:08:47,627 and remind ourselves over and over and over. Okay. 163 00:08:47,627 --> 00:08:49,495 You understand in. 164 00:08:49,495 --> 00:08:52,498 Yes. Yes. 165 00:08:52,765 --> 00:08:55,768 Okay. 166 00:08:55,902 --> 00:08:58,504 Here's something else I want to say about these 167 00:08:58,504 --> 00:08:59,105 shoes. 168 00:08:59,105 --> 00:09:02,108 To make these part of your attitudes right now. 169 00:09:03,109 --> 00:09:05,678 Those first words of John the Baptist in preparing 170 00:09:05,678 --> 00:09:08,748 the way for Jesus is public ministry was to repent 171 00:09:09,482 --> 00:09:13,853 means change your attitude, change your life, change your direction. 172 00:09:13,953 --> 00:09:16,923 The first words of Jesus were repent, 173 00:09:16,989 --> 00:09:19,692 the first words of the disciples and their messages was repent. 174 00:09:19,692 --> 00:09:20,993 The first words of the church was repent. 175 00:09:20,993 --> 00:09:23,763 The first words of Paul the Apostle in his messages were repent. 176 00:09:25,097 --> 00:09:27,833 So these are not 177 00:09:27,833 --> 00:09:30,703 we're not capable to produce these in and of ourselves, 178 00:09:30,703 --> 00:09:34,373 except for the the regeneration of the Holy Spirit in our lives. 179 00:09:34,373 --> 00:09:37,610 But at the same time, we have to choose these. 180 00:09:38,611 --> 00:09:40,980 They have to be our choice. 181 00:09:40,980 --> 00:09:44,016 And so right from the beginning, for if any of us are going to claim 182 00:09:44,016 --> 00:09:47,787 I follow Jesus, choose these attitudes right now 183 00:09:48,688 --> 00:09:51,691 and stand. 184 00:09:53,025 --> 00:09:55,761 Well, let's see, 185 00:09:55,761 --> 00:09:58,764 blessed are the poor in spirit. 186 00:09:59,665 --> 00:10:02,668 Theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 187 00:10:03,769 --> 00:10:05,171 To be poor in spirit 188 00:10:05,171 --> 00:10:08,174 means that it's the confession 189 00:10:08,641 --> 00:10:10,676 that I am sinful, 190 00:10:10,676 --> 00:10:13,679 that I'm rebellious against God, 191 00:10:14,547 --> 00:10:17,550 that I am without moral virtue, 192 00:10:18,684 --> 00:10:21,554 that I have no spiritual assets 193 00:10:21,554 --> 00:10:24,457 that would commend me to God. 194 00:10:24,457 --> 00:10:28,761 I am completely devoid of any good. 195 00:10:30,096 --> 00:10:32,231 The Bible says there is none that is righteous. 196 00:10:32,231 --> 00:10:33,132 No not one. 197 00:10:33,132 --> 00:10:36,302 There's no good that lives in any person. 198 00:10:37,570 --> 00:10:38,904 And there's the knowledge 199 00:10:38,904 --> 00:10:42,041 that I am completely and utterly 200 00:10:43,275 --> 00:10:46,278 without virtue before God, 201 00:10:46,712 --> 00:10:49,949 completely and utterly condemned 202 00:10:50,116 --> 00:10:53,285 and worthy of hell in and of myself. 203 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,690 It's the acknowledgment that I am spiritually 204 00:10:57,690 --> 00:11:00,559 bankrupt. 205 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:02,495 I'm a pauper, 206 00:11:02,495 --> 00:11:05,498 and I'm a beggar before God. 207 00:11:07,533 --> 00:11:10,503 This is the place that every person must start. 208 00:11:11,070 --> 00:11:15,574 It's the lowest rung on the ladder because it's the easiest thing, 209 00:11:15,574 --> 00:11:20,913 and it's the primary thing that every person must start with in coming to God. 210 00:11:21,914 --> 00:11:24,917 The realization I have nothing to offer him. 211 00:11:26,252 --> 00:11:28,320 Does this sound like any message? 212 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,323 If you would hear in our culture, 213 00:11:31,590 --> 00:11:33,325 not in the least. 214 00:11:33,325 --> 00:11:36,128 We want to believe there's something good in us. 215 00:11:36,128 --> 00:11:39,131 We want to believe there's something in us 216 00:11:39,932 --> 00:11:41,801 that is beautiful. 217 00:11:41,801 --> 00:11:44,236 Matter of fact, as parents, we try to convince our kids, 218 00:11:44,236 --> 00:11:47,073 oh, you're good, you're good kid. No, they're not. 219 00:11:50,176 --> 00:11:53,112 Your children are spiritually bankrupt 220 00:11:53,112 --> 00:11:56,115 because they're just like their parents. 221 00:11:56,415 --> 00:11:59,418 There's no good in any of us before God. 222 00:12:00,820 --> 00:12:03,522 The only thing we deserve before God 223 00:12:03,522 --> 00:12:06,525 is damnation. 224 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:08,094 That's what Jesus means 225 00:12:08,094 --> 00:12:11,097 when he says, blessed are the poor in spirit. 226 00:12:11,931 --> 00:12:13,399 How can he say, happy? 227 00:12:13,399 --> 00:12:16,402 Are those who are spiritually bankrupt? 228 00:12:17,336 --> 00:12:20,339 Because this is the starting point 229 00:12:20,372 --> 00:12:23,242 to being made right with God. 230 00:12:23,242 --> 00:12:26,245 If any of us comes to God and say, God, I, 231 00:12:27,012 --> 00:12:30,015 I want you to do what you can in my life, but I'm giving you a lot to work with, 232 00:12:31,584 --> 00:12:34,587 automatically disqualified. 233 00:12:37,890 --> 00:12:40,226 We have to get to the place where we acknowledge 234 00:12:40,226 --> 00:12:43,229 and confess and admit and agree with. 235 00:12:44,964 --> 00:12:47,967 I'm an utter wretch 236 00:12:48,601 --> 00:12:51,170 before God. 237 00:12:51,170 --> 00:12:54,173 Nothing of value. 238 00:12:54,573 --> 00:12:56,275 Spiritual poverty 239 00:12:56,275 --> 00:13:00,546 is the prerequisite for receiving the kingdom of heaven. Why? 240 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:02,281 Because only beggars are. Get in. 241 00:13:05,785 --> 00:13:08,788 And if we can start in this place, 242 00:13:08,821 --> 00:13:12,992 I am absolutely spiritually bankrupt. 243 00:13:16,729 --> 00:13:19,732 If that's where we start, 244 00:13:19,832 --> 00:13:21,467 then we can be inheritors 245 00:13:21,467 --> 00:13:24,470 of the Kingdom of God. 246 00:13:28,607 --> 00:13:29,775 And because that's 247 00:13:29,775 --> 00:13:32,778 the acknowledgment of where I start, 248 00:13:32,912 --> 00:13:35,881 then Jesus says, blessed are the poor in spirit. 249 00:13:37,016 --> 00:13:40,019 And then blessed are those who mourn. 250 00:13:42,421 --> 00:13:45,024 For they'll be comforted. 251 00:13:45,024 --> 00:13:47,259 We usually use that verse 252 00:13:47,259 --> 00:13:50,729 when it comes to funerals, when it comes to our loss. 253 00:13:51,363 --> 00:13:55,768 And we think, we think it means that when I'm sad, Jesus comforts me. 254 00:13:55,768 --> 00:13:58,771 That's not what this verse is talking about. 255 00:13:58,971 --> 00:14:01,907 Jesus is saying, this 256 00:14:01,907 --> 00:14:05,978 when you realize that you are completely bankrupt 257 00:14:05,978 --> 00:14:10,082 before God, worthy only of hell in and of yourself, 258 00:14:11,116 --> 00:14:14,854 it will cause you to mourn your own station. 259 00:14:16,388 --> 00:14:20,192 And when you mourn for your spiritual poverty, 260 00:14:20,926 --> 00:14:24,096 then you can be comforted because of what Jesus has done. 261 00:14:25,264 --> 00:14:27,733 But we have to get to this place of mourning. 262 00:14:27,733 --> 00:14:33,606 Now that this Greek word for mourn, is this the most intense word for mourning? 263 00:14:33,606 --> 00:14:35,941 That the Greek language has? 264 00:14:35,941 --> 00:14:40,779 It's spoken of in the same vein, when you lose a loved one, 265 00:14:40,779 --> 00:14:43,782 now some of you have lost. 266 00:14:44,683 --> 00:14:47,553 People in your life, 267 00:14:47,553 --> 00:14:50,422 and you know what it means to mourn 268 00:14:50,422 --> 00:14:53,492 in tensely right? 269 00:14:55,561 --> 00:14:58,564 That's what Jesus is talking about. 270 00:15:00,299 --> 00:15:02,835 But not in the sense of mourning my lost 271 00:15:02,835 --> 00:15:06,572 mourning over sin and the effects of sin. 272 00:15:08,140 --> 00:15:11,143 I am so overwhelmed. 273 00:15:13,412 --> 00:15:17,483 With the acknowledgment of my spiritual poverty before God because of sin. 274 00:15:17,650 --> 00:15:22,054 And I'm so overwhelmed at what sin is, what is done in me, 275 00:15:22,087 --> 00:15:25,090 what is done in the society 276 00:15:25,291 --> 00:15:30,029 that I'm experiencing this incredibly deep sense of mourning. 277 00:15:31,830 --> 00:15:33,232 If you've ever had the 278 00:15:33,232 --> 00:15:36,235 the dark night of the soul, 279 00:15:36,535 --> 00:15:38,637 when there's complete 280 00:15:38,637 --> 00:15:41,640 bankruptcy before God and a sense of of 281 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:44,843 of of of peril and darkness 282 00:15:45,611 --> 00:15:48,314 over your own soul in the morning of God, 283 00:15:48,314 --> 00:15:51,317 please have mercy. 284 00:15:52,017 --> 00:15:55,020 That's what Jesus is saying. 285 00:15:55,154 --> 00:15:56,956 Blessed are the poor in spirit, and blessed 286 00:15:56,956 --> 00:15:59,959 are those who mourn. 287 00:16:00,893 --> 00:16:02,227 Not just here's, 288 00:16:02,227 --> 00:16:05,230 here's here's our here's our standard. 289 00:16:05,664 --> 00:16:08,667 We mourn over sin because of the consequences of it. 290 00:16:10,202 --> 00:16:13,172 That's not what Jesus is talking about. 291 00:16:13,339 --> 00:16:16,241 Even devoid of consequences. 292 00:16:16,241 --> 00:16:20,012 Simply mourning over sin because of sin. 293 00:16:22,815 --> 00:16:25,784 And not just personal sin, but sin of the courts. 294 00:16:25,784 --> 00:16:28,387 Sin of the society. 295 00:16:28,387 --> 00:16:32,424 When when you look at the world being like God, have mercy on us. 296 00:16:32,424 --> 00:16:35,461 We are oh wretched sinners. 297 00:16:35,461 --> 00:16:37,463 So pervasive. 298 00:16:38,497 --> 00:16:41,500 It's horrible. 299 00:16:41,633 --> 00:16:44,636 Morning like that 300 00:16:45,204 --> 00:16:47,172 and that type of morning is good. 301 00:16:47,172 --> 00:16:49,174 Like we resist it so much. 302 00:16:49,174 --> 00:16:52,177 We don't want one. We don't want to be sad. 303 00:16:52,578 --> 00:16:54,947 We don't want other people to be sad. 304 00:16:54,947 --> 00:16:56,582 Okay, let's just talk about the love of Jesus. 305 00:16:56,582 --> 00:16:59,551 That's good. 306 00:16:59,718 --> 00:17:02,721 Jesus saying that's not worth. 307 00:17:03,722 --> 00:17:07,359 Like, we can talk about that, but it means nothing if you don't understand 308 00:17:07,593 --> 00:17:11,964 how spiritually poverty stricken you are and mourn sin. 309 00:17:15,868 --> 00:17:18,871 That morning is good. 310 00:17:18,904 --> 00:17:21,607 The Bible says godly grief. 311 00:17:21,607 --> 00:17:23,609 This type of mourning and grief produces 312 00:17:23,609 --> 00:17:26,612 a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, 313 00:17:27,780 --> 00:17:30,315 whereas worldly grief produces death. 314 00:17:30,315 --> 00:17:33,986 Like, this type of mourning is good because it leads us to repentance. 315 00:17:33,986 --> 00:17:36,989 That grief allows us to live. 316 00:17:38,957 --> 00:17:41,493 Said in another way, 317 00:17:41,493 --> 00:17:46,065 for God sometimes uses sorrow in our life to help us turn away from sin 318 00:17:46,065 --> 00:17:50,636 and seek eternal life, and we should never regret his sinning. It. 319 00:17:53,005 --> 00:17:55,741 But the sorrow of the man who is not a Christian 320 00:17:55,741 --> 00:17:58,710 is not the star of true repentance and does not prevent 321 00:17:58,710 --> 00:18:01,680 eternal death. 322 00:18:02,081 --> 00:18:05,918 Like I encourage us, sit in the realization 323 00:18:05,918 --> 00:18:09,321 of the depravity of your own soul and mourn 324 00:18:09,321 --> 00:18:12,324 over the effects of sin. 325 00:18:13,692 --> 00:18:14,760 Experienced 326 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:18,063 this type of deep and profound mourning, 327 00:18:18,764 --> 00:18:21,767 because only then will lead you to repentance. 328 00:18:22,201 --> 00:18:24,503 I'm not talking about 329 00:18:24,503 --> 00:18:27,039 feeling bad because of the consequences. 330 00:18:27,039 --> 00:18:29,942 That's simple. 331 00:18:29,942 --> 00:18:33,112 You know as well as I do when we have more of the consequences 332 00:18:33,112 --> 00:18:34,913 of sin in the moment, the consequences are there. 333 00:18:34,913 --> 00:18:37,916 We like a dog back to its vomit, 334 00:18:38,617 --> 00:18:41,620 right? 335 00:18:44,857 --> 00:18:47,860 This too heavy for you this morning? 336 00:18:51,997 --> 00:18:53,132 These are Jesus words said. 337 00:18:53,132 --> 00:18:55,100 Look at you. Want to follow me? This is the attitude you got to have. 338 00:19:02,407 --> 00:19:03,008 Blessed are the. 339 00:19:03,008 --> 00:19:06,011 What was the first one who got to memorize these 340 00:19:06,211 --> 00:19:08,113 poor in spirit. 341 00:19:08,113 --> 00:19:10,015 Theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 342 00:19:10,015 --> 00:19:12,117 Blessed are the what? 343 00:19:12,117 --> 00:19:13,285 Those who mourn. 344 00:19:13,285 --> 00:19:16,188 They'll be comforted. 345 00:19:16,188 --> 00:19:18,924 The next one. 346 00:19:18,924 --> 00:19:21,193 Blessed are the meek. 347 00:19:21,193 --> 00:19:23,662 Here's what I want to understand. 348 00:19:23,662 --> 00:19:25,531 This process, 349 00:19:25,531 --> 00:19:28,534 especially poor in spirit and mourning, 350 00:19:29,401 --> 00:19:32,070 God allows that 351 00:19:32,070 --> 00:19:35,174 in your life as a path, not a destination. 352 00:19:36,341 --> 00:19:39,344 We gotta go through this process 353 00:19:39,711 --> 00:19:42,714 to understand that he didn't want us to stay there, 354 00:19:42,748 --> 00:19:46,151 but we gotta go through there to get to these others, okay? 355 00:19:46,351 --> 00:19:49,521 It's like it's like you want to go down to Disneyland, the happiest place on Earth. 356 00:19:49,521 --> 00:19:50,756 You got to go through Bakersfield. 357 00:19:50,756 --> 00:19:53,258 We don't stay there, 358 00:19:53,258 --> 00:19:55,260 all right? 359 00:19:55,260 --> 00:19:56,995 It's a path. It's not the destination. 360 00:19:59,231 --> 00:20:01,133 And so we got to go through that. 361 00:20:01,133 --> 00:20:03,168 Most of us, we were like, I don't want to. 362 00:20:03,168 --> 00:20:05,504 I don't want, like, poor spirit more. 363 00:20:05,504 --> 00:20:06,605 That's horrible. 364 00:20:06,605 --> 00:20:09,908 Yeah, it's part of the destination as part of the path. 365 00:20:10,742 --> 00:20:13,545 But we're getting to a destination 366 00:20:13,545 --> 00:20:17,449 and part of that destination that we're going through, like poor in spirit mourn. 367 00:20:17,449 --> 00:20:20,452 And then blessed are the meek. 368 00:20:22,621 --> 00:20:24,790 For they will inherit the earth. 369 00:20:24,790 --> 00:20:29,928 Now, we don't have a good translation for the Greek word Prowse meek. 370 00:20:30,095 --> 00:20:30,596 We don't. 371 00:20:30,596 --> 00:20:33,599 We can't translate it well at all in English. 372 00:20:34,333 --> 00:20:38,103 Only thing we can do is use a bunch of worst kind of explain what it looks like. 373 00:20:39,271 --> 00:20:42,174 And so the best we can come up with is meek 374 00:20:42,174 --> 00:20:45,877 means a powerful person, properly controlled. 375 00:20:48,113 --> 00:20:49,681 It means a perfect balance 376 00:20:49,681 --> 00:20:52,651 between anger and indifference. 377 00:20:54,152 --> 00:20:56,521 There's a tension here 378 00:20:56,521 --> 00:20:59,458 in the one who is meek. 379 00:20:59,458 --> 00:21:00,892 They're not passive, 380 00:21:00,892 --> 00:21:03,895 but they're not pushed either. 381 00:21:04,029 --> 00:21:05,731 The best way you can see it is it's. 382 00:21:05,731 --> 00:21:08,700 It's strength under control. 383 00:21:09,568 --> 00:21:12,170 It's a person free from malice 384 00:21:12,170 --> 00:21:15,173 and free from a vengeful spirit. 385 00:21:19,444 --> 00:21:22,447 It's it's it's the ability to suffer 386 00:21:23,348 --> 00:21:27,052 without malice and without seeking revenge. 387 00:21:30,322 --> 00:21:31,123 To be meek 388 00:21:31,123 --> 00:21:34,326 means I will willingly disregard 389 00:21:34,426 --> 00:21:37,429 my own rights. 390 00:21:37,963 --> 00:21:39,031 It's the power 391 00:21:39,031 --> 00:21:42,334 and authority that says you will not take my rights, 392 00:21:42,501 --> 00:21:45,504 but I will gladly give up my rights. 393 00:21:46,405 --> 00:21:48,640 I have that much power 394 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,643 and it's under control. 395 00:21:55,747 --> 00:21:58,350 Why would someone say 396 00:21:58,350 --> 00:22:00,752 I don't have to assert my rights? 397 00:22:00,752 --> 00:22:03,755 I will gladly give them up 398 00:22:04,222 --> 00:22:08,760 because they know that they will inherit the earth. 399 00:22:09,728 --> 00:22:12,030 And because I know I will inherit the earth, 400 00:22:12,030 --> 00:22:15,133 I have nothing to prove and no one to impress. 401 00:22:16,301 --> 00:22:18,603 That's meekness. 402 00:22:18,603 --> 00:22:21,606 That's the tagline we use for our men's ministry. 403 00:22:21,707 --> 00:22:24,710 Because men, we've got to be meek. 404 00:22:25,410 --> 00:22:27,913 It's not being walked on. 405 00:22:27,913 --> 00:22:30,415 It's the ability to say, look, I have complete power 406 00:22:30,415 --> 00:22:33,418 to assert my authority over you, but I'm going to choose not to. 407 00:22:35,053 --> 00:22:38,056 Why? Because I got nothing to prove. 408 00:22:39,091 --> 00:22:40,726 I have enough power 409 00:22:40,726 --> 00:22:43,729 and authority that God has given me. 410 00:22:43,729 --> 00:22:46,732 I don't have to prove myself to anybody. 411 00:22:46,832 --> 00:22:48,900 I'm surely not going to try to prove myself to you. 412 00:22:48,900 --> 00:22:51,870 You don't deserve me to prove myself to you. 413 00:22:51,970 --> 00:22:52,804 Not arrogant. 414 00:22:52,804 --> 00:22:55,807 I'm just saying, like I don't. 415 00:22:56,675 --> 00:22:57,809 I have no one to impress. 416 00:22:57,809 --> 00:22:59,111 Why would I try to impress you? 417 00:23:01,813 --> 00:23:03,415 You don't deserve me to try to impress you. 418 00:23:03,415 --> 00:23:06,418 And I don't feel obligated to. 419 00:23:07,052 --> 00:23:09,421 I certainly am not going to prove myself to God. 420 00:23:09,421 --> 00:23:11,590 I only think I'm going to prove myself to God is that I'm. 421 00:23:11,590 --> 00:23:14,593 I am poor in spirit, and I'm mourning that. 422 00:23:14,726 --> 00:23:16,628 And I'm certainly not going to try to impress God. 423 00:23:16,628 --> 00:23:19,631 Do you think any of us could impress God? 424 00:23:20,165 --> 00:23:21,166 And so, likewise, 425 00:23:21,166 --> 00:23:24,169 I'm like, blessed are the meek. 426 00:23:24,870 --> 00:23:26,471 They don't have to prove anything. 427 00:23:26,471 --> 00:23:28,373 They don't have to impress anybody. 428 00:23:28,373 --> 00:23:30,542 They don't have to hold a grudge. 429 00:23:30,542 --> 00:23:32,010 They don't have to be vengeful. 430 00:23:32,010 --> 00:23:34,946 They don't have to assert their power and might over anybody. Why? 431 00:23:34,946 --> 00:23:37,949 Because they're going to hurt the earth. 432 00:23:42,921 --> 00:23:44,256 Does does meekness 433 00:23:44,256 --> 00:23:47,426 sound like anything that our culture has ever propagated? 434 00:23:48,460 --> 00:23:51,296 Not at all. 435 00:23:51,296 --> 00:23:54,299 Not at all. 436 00:23:56,501 --> 00:23:57,469 So I will be meek 437 00:23:57,469 --> 00:24:00,472 before God and completely submit to him, 438 00:24:00,672 --> 00:24:03,675 and I will be meek before man, 439 00:24:04,209 --> 00:24:07,212 which means I will be longsuffering, 440 00:24:07,446 --> 00:24:09,848 powerful, and strong, 441 00:24:09,848 --> 00:24:12,717 yet humble. 442 00:24:12,717 --> 00:24:15,720 And so Jesus is saying, if you're going to follow me, 443 00:24:15,887 --> 00:24:18,557 you first have to admit that you were completely, 444 00:24:18,557 --> 00:24:21,560 utterly, spiritually bankrupt and poor in spirit, 445 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,863 and that has to cause you to mourn 446 00:24:24,863 --> 00:24:28,366 and out of response of your realization and who you are 447 00:24:28,366 --> 00:24:30,302 and where you are before God. 448 00:24:30,302 --> 00:24:33,305 You're a meek. 449 00:24:33,505 --> 00:24:36,241 Blessed are those who first one is what 450 00:24:36,241 --> 00:24:38,643 poor in spirit. Blessed are those who. 451 00:24:38,643 --> 00:24:41,646 Blessed are the meek. 452 00:24:42,180 --> 00:24:44,115 And when you're meek, 453 00:24:44,115 --> 00:24:47,118 you realize who you are before God. 454 00:24:47,719 --> 00:24:51,890 Then blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, 455 00:24:52,924 --> 00:24:54,993 for they'll be filled. 456 00:24:54,993 --> 00:24:57,963 Our desires and our drives come into line. 457 00:24:58,263 --> 00:25:01,266 And I hunger and thirst for righteousness. 458 00:25:01,466 --> 00:25:04,469 They will be filled when when the Bible talks 459 00:25:04,469 --> 00:25:07,472 about being filled. 460 00:25:08,073 --> 00:25:11,042 It it's it's being filled. 461 00:25:12,744 --> 00:25:15,747 Where you experience this profound hunger 462 00:25:15,881 --> 00:25:19,451 that can never be completely satisfied. 463 00:25:20,585 --> 00:25:23,388 But in its satisfaction, 464 00:25:23,388 --> 00:25:26,391 it intensifies for more. 465 00:25:28,193 --> 00:25:31,196 And what Jesus is saying here is, blessed are those 466 00:25:31,429 --> 00:25:34,432 who have this profound hunger 467 00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:37,502 that's never completely satisfied. 468 00:25:37,602 --> 00:25:40,472 That always draws one to more. 469 00:25:40,472 --> 00:25:41,573 Here's here's what I know. 470 00:25:41,573 --> 00:25:44,876 Many of us get hungry often during the day, right? 471 00:25:45,944 --> 00:25:47,512 Right. 472 00:25:47,512 --> 00:25:50,715 Some of you missed breakfast this morning and you're thinking, okay, how long? 473 00:25:50,715 --> 00:25:53,351 Because oh my goodness, 474 00:25:53,351 --> 00:25:55,720 all of us get hungry. 475 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,190 None of us in this place suffer hunger. 476 00:26:02,193 --> 00:26:04,963 Please understand, all of us get hungry. 477 00:26:06,031 --> 00:26:08,300 None of us 478 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:10,268 suffer hunger. 479 00:26:10,268 --> 00:26:11,970 And this is what Jesus is saying. 480 00:26:11,970 --> 00:26:14,973 So I'm not talking about you getting spiritually hungry. 481 00:26:14,973 --> 00:26:16,741 You get spiritually hungry, you come to church 482 00:26:16,741 --> 00:26:19,711 and then you have your snack and you're good for the next week or so. 483 00:26:20,545 --> 00:26:22,681 So that's not what I'm talking about. 484 00:26:22,681 --> 00:26:26,885 I'm talking about this profound, intense hunger 485 00:26:27,319 --> 00:26:30,689 as if you are starving and dying of thirst. 486 00:26:32,123 --> 00:26:35,160 And the moment you partake, it's satisfying, 487 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,463 and all it does is make it intensified for more. 488 00:26:39,631 --> 00:26:41,733 It's that type of hunger and thirst, 489 00:26:41,733 --> 00:26:44,736 and it's a hunger and thirst for what? 490 00:26:44,836 --> 00:26:46,404 Righteousness. 491 00:26:46,404 --> 00:26:49,140 We talked last week about righteousness, 492 00:26:49,140 --> 00:26:50,408 and I challenge you to pray. 493 00:26:50,408 --> 00:26:54,813 God intensified my desire to be a righteous man 494 00:26:54,813 --> 00:26:56,314 before you, to be a righteous woman 495 00:26:56,314 --> 00:27:01,019 before you intensify, grow my desire for righteousness. 496 00:27:01,019 --> 00:27:02,454 And this is what Jesus is saying. 497 00:27:02,454 --> 00:27:04,222 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst. 498 00:27:04,222 --> 00:27:07,425 This ongoing, intense, insatiable desire 499 00:27:07,559 --> 00:27:10,629 to be a righteous man and a righteous woman. 500 00:27:10,862 --> 00:27:12,130 Not I believe in Jesus. 501 00:27:12,130 --> 00:27:14,132 So I got my fire insurance from hell. 502 00:27:14,132 --> 00:27:16,968 But I am intensely desiring 503 00:27:18,536 --> 00:27:21,539 the righteousness of God. 504 00:27:26,077 --> 00:27:29,080 We hunger for a lot of things 505 00:27:29,514 --> 00:27:32,517 other than righteousness. 506 00:27:32,550 --> 00:27:34,853 We hunger for 507 00:27:34,853 --> 00:27:37,856 for God to step in. 508 00:27:38,623 --> 00:27:41,159 We hunger for 509 00:27:41,159 --> 00:27:42,961 God to do something in our lives. 510 00:27:42,961 --> 00:27:45,897 God to rescue God to save this. God to make us so. 511 00:27:45,897 --> 00:27:48,033 We hunger for a lot of things other than righteousness. 512 00:27:48,033 --> 00:27:51,036 And Jesus says. 513 00:27:51,803 --> 00:27:53,705 Starve for righteousness. 514 00:27:53,705 --> 00:27:56,708 Here's my concern. 515 00:27:57,042 --> 00:27:59,377 Oftentimes good 516 00:27:59,377 --> 00:28:03,181 religious church people are inoculated 517 00:28:03,882 --> 00:28:06,885 from the hunger of righteousness. 518 00:28:07,986 --> 00:28:10,989 Because we're good religious moral people. 519 00:28:13,358 --> 00:28:14,693 And we're inoculated 520 00:28:14,693 --> 00:28:17,696 from the starvation of righteousness. 521 00:28:18,563 --> 00:28:20,298 And that's what Jesus is saying. 522 00:28:20,298 --> 00:28:23,301 Do you realize that Jesus didn't come to make any of us moral? 523 00:28:24,302 --> 00:28:27,305 He can't make us holy. 524 00:28:27,772 --> 00:28:28,606 To be people. 525 00:28:28,606 --> 00:28:31,609 When men and women of righteousness. 526 00:28:32,610 --> 00:28:35,213 And so this feeling, 527 00:28:35,213 --> 00:28:38,917 it satisfies us at it intensifies the desire for more. 528 00:28:40,952 --> 00:28:41,486 Blessed are the 529 00:28:41,486 --> 00:28:44,489 poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 530 00:28:44,489 --> 00:28:46,658 Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. 531 00:28:46,658 --> 00:28:49,360 Blessed are the meek that will inherit the earth. 532 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,230 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they'll be filled 533 00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:55,233 and then blessed are the merciful, 534 00:28:56,401 --> 00:28:58,737 for they'll what 535 00:28:58,737 --> 00:29:00,004 receive mercy. 536 00:29:00,004 --> 00:29:02,841 Listen, the merciful, 537 00:29:02,841 --> 00:29:05,844 get the mercy they give. 538 00:29:06,044 --> 00:29:09,047 Please, my dear friends, let that sink in. 539 00:29:09,848 --> 00:29:12,851 The merciful get the mercy they give. 540 00:29:16,521 --> 00:29:18,423 Once you receive it, 541 00:29:18,423 --> 00:29:21,426 you have to give it. 542 00:29:22,827 --> 00:29:23,628 When I realize 543 00:29:23,628 --> 00:29:26,631 that I'm completely bankrupt and utterly, 544 00:29:27,065 --> 00:29:29,467 devoid of spiritual value, 545 00:29:29,467 --> 00:29:32,470 that would commend me to God. 546 00:29:33,438 --> 00:29:35,306 When I experience that incredible evil 547 00:29:35,306 --> 00:29:38,743 morning for my sinfulness and the sinfulness of humanity. 548 00:29:41,312 --> 00:29:44,783 And it puts me in a position to be meek before God and before people 549 00:29:45,950 --> 00:29:48,720 now hunger and thirst for righteousness. 550 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,523 The one thing I know is that what I need from 551 00:29:51,523 --> 00:29:54,526 God is mercy. 552 00:29:55,293 --> 00:29:57,362 I need his mercy. 553 00:29:57,362 --> 00:30:00,331 And what Jesus is saying is, 554 00:30:00,431 --> 00:30:03,468 you will get the mercy you give 555 00:30:05,270 --> 00:30:06,805 something about King David, 556 00:30:06,805 --> 00:30:09,808 Old Testament King David, he God 557 00:30:10,742 --> 00:30:15,313 was so gracious towards King David, his little shepherd boy, 558 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,650 completely forgotten about by his family 559 00:30:18,650 --> 00:30:21,653 and God chose him to be 560 00:30:22,554 --> 00:30:25,557 the King of, of of Israel. 561 00:30:25,723 --> 00:30:28,760 And God put his hands on King David and blessed him. 562 00:30:29,127 --> 00:30:31,496 Oh, I was ridiculous. 563 00:30:31,496 --> 00:30:35,700 The favor that David had on his life, and in the midst of experience 564 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:39,003 all this favor from God, he sees this married 565 00:30:39,003 --> 00:30:43,308 a woman named Bathsheba, commits adultery with her, gets her pregnant, 566 00:30:43,474 --> 00:30:46,344 and then contracts to have her husband killed. 567 00:30:47,779 --> 00:30:50,782 And God still 568 00:30:51,516 --> 00:30:55,153 is so gracious and merciful to him. 569 00:30:56,521 --> 00:30:58,990 He was horrible. 570 00:30:58,990 --> 00:31:02,760 Why was God so merciful to him after all of that? 571 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,430 I'll tell you why. 572 00:31:05,430 --> 00:31:08,433 Because before all of that, 573 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,603 when King Saul was the king 574 00:31:11,870 --> 00:31:14,339 and God removed his hand from King Saul 575 00:31:14,339 --> 00:31:17,342 and said, David, I put my hand on you, you will be the king. 576 00:31:17,375 --> 00:31:21,012 David had opportunity after opportunity after opportunity 577 00:31:21,212 --> 00:31:25,283 to dishonor Saul and to remove Saul from power. 578 00:31:25,283 --> 00:31:28,353 And David said, I will be merciful to Saul 579 00:31:28,820 --> 00:31:31,823 until God does what God wants to do. 580 00:31:32,190 --> 00:31:36,527 And because David was so incredibly merciful to Saul, 581 00:31:36,661 --> 00:31:39,664 David experienced the mercy of God. 582 00:31:41,599 --> 00:31:43,935 Blessed are the merciful, 583 00:31:43,935 --> 00:31:46,604 for they will. What 584 00:31:46,604 --> 00:31:49,140 receive mercy. 585 00:31:49,140 --> 00:31:50,875 And what Jesus is saying is 586 00:31:50,875 --> 00:31:53,878 that our be attitudes 587 00:31:53,878 --> 00:31:58,216 are those who, for that person who did that to you, 588 00:31:59,717 --> 00:32:01,819 for those who 589 00:32:01,819 --> 00:32:04,822 for that one you will never. 590 00:32:09,327 --> 00:32:12,330 Jesus followers will be merciful. 591 00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:16,000 And as a result, 592 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,003 they'll receive the mercy of God. 593 00:32:21,105 --> 00:32:25,176 To understand. The. 594 00:32:32,116 --> 00:32:34,986 Blessed are the poor in spirit. 595 00:32:34,986 --> 00:32:37,155 Blessed are those who mourn. 596 00:32:37,155 --> 00:32:39,991 Blessed are the meek. 597 00:32:39,991 --> 00:32:42,961 But for those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, 598 00:32:43,094 --> 00:32:45,964 blessed are the merciful. 599 00:32:45,964 --> 00:32:48,967 What's the next one? 600 00:32:51,302 --> 00:32:53,604 Blessed are the pure in heart, 601 00:32:53,604 --> 00:32:56,607 for they will see God. 602 00:32:59,010 --> 00:33:02,013 When this word is just pure, 603 00:33:03,181 --> 00:33:05,550 it means a straightness. 604 00:33:05,550 --> 00:33:08,653 It means in and in honesty and a clarity. 605 00:33:09,420 --> 00:33:12,423 It means an undivided heart. 606 00:33:14,292 --> 00:33:15,660 The Bible says that 607 00:33:15,660 --> 00:33:18,696 a double minded man is unstable, and all he does that's not this. 608 00:33:19,998 --> 00:33:22,300 This is a straightness. 609 00:33:22,300 --> 00:33:25,303 There's no division in the heart. 610 00:33:26,771 --> 00:33:29,774 It it literally it's sincere. 611 00:33:31,009 --> 00:33:34,579 Sincere comes from, two words sincerely. 612 00:33:34,746 --> 00:33:36,547 And it literally means without wax. 613 00:33:36,547 --> 00:33:38,182 That's what sincere means. Did you know that? 614 00:33:39,450 --> 00:33:42,687 Let me tell you the context of that, because that's what pure. 615 00:33:42,687 --> 00:33:45,323 And this is what pure in heart means. 616 00:33:45,323 --> 00:33:48,326 Back in ancient times 617 00:33:48,493 --> 00:33:50,628 when Romans and whatnot would, 618 00:33:50,628 --> 00:33:53,631 would, would carve statues out of marble, 619 00:33:54,265 --> 00:33:56,501 they would be commissioned, the artists would be commissioned 620 00:33:56,501 --> 00:34:01,239 by a wealthy person to fashion a statue for the gardens, 621 00:34:02,507 --> 00:34:04,542 and during the crafting 622 00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:07,545 of the statue, oftentimes it happened quite, quite a bit, 623 00:34:08,413 --> 00:34:12,583 right at the end of the statue's completion, right before it's completed. 624 00:34:13,151 --> 00:34:18,056 As the sculptor was sculpting, they would hit some type of fracture 625 00:34:18,056 --> 00:34:21,526 or fissure in the marble and part of the statue would fall off, 626 00:34:22,126 --> 00:34:26,564 rather than starting all over again and losing all the work and time and money, 627 00:34:27,632 --> 00:34:30,868 the sculptor would take the dust, 628 00:34:31,102 --> 00:34:34,806 from the chiseling the marble dust and mix it with wax, 629 00:34:35,940 --> 00:34:38,843 and it would look exactly like the original marble, 630 00:34:38,843 --> 00:34:41,846 and they would fashion that part which fell off 631 00:34:42,647 --> 00:34:46,851 from this substances, this marble dust, wax material. 632 00:34:46,951 --> 00:34:50,188 And it would look exactly like the marble no one would ever know 633 00:34:51,556 --> 00:34:53,558 until 634 00:34:53,558 --> 00:34:55,860 the person brought it home and put it in their garden. 635 00:34:55,860 --> 00:34:58,629 And a hot summer day came 636 00:34:58,629 --> 00:35:01,499 and the the wax would melt 637 00:35:01,499 --> 00:35:04,502 and it would fall off. 638 00:35:04,936 --> 00:35:07,638 And so they made a law 639 00:35:07,638 --> 00:35:12,343 that in every sculpture had to be certified, that it was sensory 640 00:35:13,411 --> 00:35:15,313 without wax. 641 00:35:15,313 --> 00:35:18,783 It was pure, undivided, unbroken. 642 00:35:19,717 --> 00:35:21,786 And what Jesus is saying here is, blessed 643 00:35:21,786 --> 00:35:24,789 are the sincerity of heart. 644 00:35:25,890 --> 00:35:30,094 It doesn't say, blessed are the poor in behavior that will come. 645 00:35:30,928 --> 00:35:33,931 It doesn't say, blessed are the poor and rich or the pure in ritual 646 00:35:34,465 --> 00:35:39,003 says, blessed are the pure in heart and undivided, sincere 647 00:35:39,270 --> 00:35:42,874 heart of clarity, of straightness. 648 00:35:45,109 --> 00:35:45,743 And they will. 649 00:35:45,743 --> 00:35:47,712 What? 650 00:35:47,712 --> 00:35:50,948 Blessed are the pure in heart, they will see God. 651 00:35:52,817 --> 00:35:54,018 They'll see God. 652 00:35:54,018 --> 00:35:57,021 They'll have a greater intimacy with God. 653 00:35:57,989 --> 00:36:00,591 When I was in high school, I vividly remember this. 654 00:36:00,591 --> 00:36:03,594 I was listening to someone teach and they said, 655 00:36:04,262 --> 00:36:07,265 dust in the heart throws dirt in the eyes. 656 00:36:08,266 --> 00:36:09,200 I wrote it down. 657 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,203 I still have it in my Bible in my office. 658 00:36:12,570 --> 00:36:15,339 Dust in the heart throws dirt in the eyes. 659 00:36:15,339 --> 00:36:18,476 When we don't have a pure heart, it gets dusty 660 00:36:19,143 --> 00:36:22,280 and a dusty heart creates blinded eyes. 661 00:36:23,514 --> 00:36:26,784 And what Jesus is saying here, that those who are pure in heart 662 00:36:27,151 --> 00:36:29,854 have unblinded eyes, free 663 00:36:29,854 --> 00:36:32,857 from the blinding pollutants of sin. 664 00:36:33,057 --> 00:36:35,293 So you see God more clearly. 665 00:36:35,293 --> 00:36:39,564 Imagine God is the one who said, nobody can see me and live. 666 00:36:39,864 --> 00:36:43,034 And yet the blessings of the pure heart is to see him, 667 00:36:44,035 --> 00:36:45,770 so that when we open Scripture, 668 00:36:45,770 --> 00:36:48,773 we see God clearly, 669 00:36:49,807 --> 00:36:52,510 not because of knowledge, but because of 670 00:36:52,510 --> 00:36:55,513 sincerity of heart. 671 00:36:55,613 --> 00:36:58,382 That when circumstances happen in life, we don't freak out. 672 00:36:58,382 --> 00:37:00,184 Like, what's going on, God? Why? 673 00:37:00,184 --> 00:37:03,187 Because we see him clearly. 674 00:37:05,389 --> 00:37:07,725 That's not pure in heart. 675 00:37:07,725 --> 00:37:10,728 But there will see God. 676 00:37:11,662 --> 00:37:14,999 So. So let's start at the bottom rung of the ladder. 677 00:37:15,032 --> 00:37:18,035 The easiest step to take. 678 00:37:18,769 --> 00:37:20,438 Blessed are the poor in spirit. 679 00:37:20,438 --> 00:37:23,107 That's where everybody has to start. 680 00:37:23,107 --> 00:37:25,943 We don't start with blessed are the pure in heart. 681 00:37:25,943 --> 00:37:28,346 We don't start with blessed are the meek. 682 00:37:28,346 --> 00:37:31,349 Everybody starts on the same rung. 683 00:37:31,482 --> 00:37:34,485 Blessed are the poor in spirit. 684 00:37:34,986 --> 00:37:36,354 And the next rung is blessed 685 00:37:36,354 --> 00:37:39,357 are those who mourn. 686 00:37:39,490 --> 00:37:42,260 And the next is blessed are the meek. 687 00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:44,295 Blessed are those who hunger, thirst for righteousness. 688 00:37:57,408 --> 00:37:58,542 Blessed are the merciful. 689 00:37:58,542 --> 00:38:01,345 Blessed are the pure in heart. 690 00:38:01,345 --> 00:38:04,348 And then he says, and blessed are the peacemakers. 691 00:38:06,284 --> 00:38:09,153 They will be called sons of God. 692 00:38:09,153 --> 00:38:13,624 You know the greatest way and the greatest peace making is evangelism, 693 00:38:14,725 --> 00:38:18,729 bringing peace between a lost person and the God who loves them. 694 00:38:20,364 --> 00:38:21,766 That's what peace. Peace. 695 00:38:21,766 --> 00:38:23,134 When Jesus is talking about peacemaking 696 00:38:23,134 --> 00:38:26,370 here, he's not talking about, hey, let's just all get along and not argue. 697 00:38:27,071 --> 00:38:28,072 He's not talking about 698 00:38:28,072 --> 00:38:31,742 let's just let's not causeless don't talk like, let's just be nice. 699 00:38:31,742 --> 00:38:34,145 And that's what he's talking about. 700 00:38:34,145 --> 00:38:36,647 The greatest act of peacemaking 701 00:38:36,647 --> 00:38:40,418 is, is, is making helping someone make peace with God. 702 00:38:40,518 --> 00:38:42,653 It's evangelism. 703 00:38:42,653 --> 00:38:44,755 It's that ministry of reconciliation. 704 00:38:44,755 --> 00:38:47,758 We're reconciling humans to God. 705 00:38:48,726 --> 00:38:53,531 The Bible says all this is from God, who through Christ reconciled himself to us. 706 00:38:53,631 --> 00:38:54,765 It's evangelism. 707 00:38:54,765 --> 00:38:57,401 And now he's given us that ministry of reconciliation. 708 00:39:05,042 --> 00:39:07,712 And those people who, 709 00:39:07,712 --> 00:39:11,315 who for whom this is their attitude and this is their practice. 710 00:39:11,615 --> 00:39:14,618 These are recognized as children of God. 711 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,290 These are. 712 00:39:19,290 --> 00:39:21,759 And Jesus saying, these are the attitudes of my people. 713 00:39:21,759 --> 00:39:25,229 This is my expectation for everybody who says they follow me. 714 00:39:32,603 --> 00:39:35,606 And then he says. 715 00:39:36,140 --> 00:39:36,974 Blessed are those 716 00:39:36,974 --> 00:39:39,977 who are persecuted for righteousness. 717 00:39:40,311 --> 00:39:42,513 Blessed are you when you're reviled and people 718 00:39:42,513 --> 00:39:45,516 say all kinds of evil against you falsely, 719 00:39:45,649 --> 00:39:48,652 for theirs is the kingdom. 720 00:39:52,923 --> 00:39:55,726 And he says, rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven. 721 00:39:55,726 --> 00:39:58,729 For so they pursue the prophets, who before you says, listen, 722 00:39:58,729 --> 00:40:01,999 the results of all this stuff, if you live 723 00:40:01,999 --> 00:40:05,002 this way. 724 00:40:05,870 --> 00:40:06,604 Be joyful 725 00:40:06,604 --> 00:40:09,607 when you're persecuted because of it. 726 00:40:09,807 --> 00:40:11,509 And Jesus puts persecution 727 00:40:11,509 --> 00:40:15,679 not just in physical terms, but in terms of slander as well. 728 00:40:17,715 --> 00:40:18,849 It's going to happen 729 00:40:18,849 --> 00:40:21,852 if you're doing it right. 730 00:40:22,987 --> 00:40:25,990 And, and and he says when this happens, 731 00:40:26,724 --> 00:40:28,025 rejoice literally. 732 00:40:28,025 --> 00:40:30,795 He says, jump for joy. 733 00:40:30,795 --> 00:40:33,831 Like when you're persecuted, jump for joy. Why? 734 00:40:33,931 --> 00:40:36,367 Because you're in good company. 735 00:40:36,367 --> 00:40:39,303 This is what happened to all the prophets. 736 00:40:39,303 --> 00:40:42,339 It's what happened throughout church history, the shoulders 737 00:40:42,339 --> 00:40:47,478 on which we stand as Christ followers all experienced persecution, he said. 738 00:40:47,478 --> 00:40:50,347 So count it all joy, my brothers and sisters. 739 00:40:50,347 --> 00:40:54,819 When you suffer for the sake of the kingdom, you're in good company 740 00:40:54,952 --> 00:40:57,955 and great is your reward. 741 00:40:58,956 --> 00:41:01,959 It's the kingdom of heaven. 742 00:41:06,430 --> 00:41:09,266 And when we live according to these attitudes, 743 00:41:09,266 --> 00:41:12,269 we become something we're not. 744 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,176 You are the salt of the earth, 745 00:41:19,176 --> 00:41:22,012 and you are the light of the world. 746 00:41:22,012 --> 00:41:23,848 Most Christians 747 00:41:23,848 --> 00:41:27,518 know those phrases far more than they know. 748 00:41:27,518 --> 00:41:28,419 The Beatitudes. 749 00:41:30,688 --> 00:41:31,322 And they kind of 750 00:41:31,322 --> 00:41:34,925 say, hey, we are the salt of the earth and we are the light of the world. 751 00:41:35,125 --> 00:41:36,293 No you're not. 752 00:41:36,293 --> 00:41:39,530 If you haven't lived according to the attitudes of the Beatitudes, 753 00:41:40,297 --> 00:41:43,601 that's the result of living according to the Beatitudes. 754 00:41:43,601 --> 00:41:46,604 Do you understand that? 755 00:41:49,073 --> 00:41:50,007 Says when these. 756 00:41:50,007 --> 00:41:50,241 Then. 757 00:41:50,241 --> 00:41:53,244 When these are your attitudes. Now 758 00:41:54,144 --> 00:41:57,147 you're the salt of the earth and the light of the world. 759 00:42:01,185 --> 00:42:07,892 Salt has a preserving influence and it slows decay. 760 00:42:07,892 --> 00:42:10,127 That's what it did in the ancient world. 761 00:42:10,127 --> 00:42:14,765 They'd put it on meat to preserve it and slow decay. 762 00:42:15,299 --> 00:42:17,101 You said this is who you are when you live. 763 00:42:17,101 --> 00:42:19,169 According to these archers. This is who you become. 764 00:42:19,169 --> 00:42:22,172 You become the salt of the earth 765 00:42:22,473 --> 00:42:23,541 and the light of the world. 766 00:42:25,009 --> 00:42:27,344 You have a preserving influence. 767 00:42:27,344 --> 00:42:29,280 Christians ought to have a preserving influence 768 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:33,150 and so of the key of culture, but not by posting on social media, 769 00:42:33,150 --> 00:42:36,353 not by boycotting stuff, not by marching, not by chanting, 770 00:42:37,354 --> 00:42:41,025 not by berating, but by the Beatitudes. 771 00:42:41,926 --> 00:42:45,696 We naturally become the salt of the earth, the slow decay 772 00:42:45,996 --> 00:42:48,999 and the preserving influence in this world. 773 00:42:49,934 --> 00:42:50,534 And it's. 774 00:42:50,534 --> 00:42:52,803 And the salt in the end times was incredibly valuable. 775 00:42:52,803 --> 00:42:56,073 Some at some points in history, it was more valuable than gold. 776 00:42:56,240 --> 00:43:01,145 Matter of fact, soldiers in the Roman army would oftentimes be paid with salt. 777 00:43:01,946 --> 00:43:03,113 That's where the saint comes from. 778 00:43:03,113 --> 00:43:06,016 He is worth his salt. 779 00:43:06,016 --> 00:43:09,019 It's valuable. 780 00:43:11,055 --> 00:43:14,224 And when Jesus says you're the light of the world, think about what he's saying. 781 00:43:14,592 --> 00:43:17,094 That title Jesus claimed of himself. 782 00:43:17,094 --> 00:43:21,665 And now he it to the disciples who have who, who live by these beatitudes. 783 00:43:21,665 --> 00:43:22,533 Can you imagine? 784 00:43:24,501 --> 00:43:25,736 He gives that title 785 00:43:25,736 --> 00:43:28,772 to us because we live according to these. 786 00:43:28,772 --> 00:43:31,575 Be out. These are our attitudes. Now. 787 00:43:31,575 --> 00:43:33,477 It's amazing to me. 788 00:43:33,477 --> 00:43:35,512 So here's what I know. 789 00:43:35,512 --> 00:43:38,515 To be effective, we must be distinctive. 790 00:43:40,117 --> 00:43:41,885 To be effective, we must be distinctive. 791 00:43:41,885 --> 00:43:44,688 And these beatitudes 792 00:43:44,688 --> 00:43:47,858 are very distinctive from this culture in this world we live in, right? 793 00:43:48,726 --> 00:43:51,729 Right. 794 00:43:51,996 --> 00:43:54,999 And so we just have to ask ourselves, 795 00:43:55,332 --> 00:43:57,635 how much do church folks look like? 796 00:43:57,635 --> 00:43:59,870 The culture we live in, 797 00:43:59,870 --> 00:44:02,539 the same goals, the same debts, the same media, 798 00:44:02,539 --> 00:44:06,577 the same schedules, the same stress, the same worries, the same habits, 799 00:44:06,577 --> 00:44:09,580 the same addictions, the same marriages, the same priorities. 800 00:44:11,882 --> 00:44:14,885 If we're going to be effective, we got to be distinctive. 801 00:44:15,853 --> 00:44:19,490 And these beatitudes have to be our attitudes. 802 00:44:20,491 --> 00:44:21,792 And when these are our attitudes, 803 00:44:21,792 --> 00:44:24,795 all of that stuff changes. 804 00:44:27,131 --> 00:44:30,134 I love verse 15. 805 00:44:30,434 --> 00:44:32,770 No people light a lamp and put it under a basket, 806 00:44:32,770 --> 00:44:35,773 but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. 807 00:44:37,041 --> 00:44:40,377 The question we have to ask is if this is what produces 808 00:44:40,377 --> 00:44:44,648 the light of the world in us, and it gives light to all in the house. 809 00:44:46,016 --> 00:44:49,553 How is our light giving light to our house, 810 00:44:50,854 --> 00:44:53,857 to our spouse, to our children? 811 00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:58,829 There's a lot of church folk 812 00:44:58,829 --> 00:45:02,733 who want to be a light at work who aren't first, 813 00:45:02,733 --> 00:45:05,703 a light at home. 814 00:45:09,273 --> 00:45:11,942 Who want to be a light to their coworkers and friends, 815 00:45:11,942 --> 00:45:14,945 and whose kids are still living in darkness. 816 00:45:17,014 --> 00:45:20,117 Who want to be good to people but are bad for their spouse. 817 00:45:23,353 --> 00:45:24,421 And Jesus says, when 818 00:45:24,421 --> 00:45:29,059 these beatitudes are your attitudes, you are a light to the world, 819 00:45:29,059 --> 00:45:32,563 and you will give light to your home. 820 00:45:35,866 --> 00:45:39,036 And he says, in the same way. 821 00:45:42,406 --> 00:45:45,275 Let your light shine before others, so that they will see your good works 822 00:45:45,275 --> 00:45:47,177 and give glory to your father who is in heaven. 823 00:45:47,177 --> 00:45:51,115 Jesus wants people of his kingdom to live visible lives 824 00:45:51,115 --> 00:45:54,518 that attract attention to the beauty of God's work in their life. 825 00:45:55,853 --> 00:45:58,288 They will see your good works because of these beatitudes 826 00:45:58,288 --> 00:46:01,291 and give glory to your father in heaven. 827 00:46:04,261 --> 00:46:05,462 When Jesus uses 828 00:46:05,462 --> 00:46:08,465 this, this phrase here, give glory to your father in heaven. 829 00:46:08,665 --> 00:46:11,769 This is the first time in the New Testament God is called father, 830 00:46:12,469 --> 00:46:16,740 and it's in reference to people seeing the good works of his children. 831 00:46:18,909 --> 00:46:20,477 Did you realize that the way 832 00:46:20,477 --> 00:46:23,514 God gets glory for being the father 833 00:46:24,214 --> 00:46:27,384 is by his kids, having these attitudes? 834 00:46:29,253 --> 00:46:31,221 Do you see how important these are? 835 00:46:31,221 --> 00:46:34,224 You see how important these are? 836 00:46:34,758 --> 00:46:37,261 Oh dear friends, 837 00:46:37,261 --> 00:46:38,996 know these 838 00:46:38,996 --> 00:46:42,699 because these are Christ's expectation of us. 839 00:46:43,567 --> 00:46:47,004 And if we don't know these, how do we ever hope 840 00:46:47,337 --> 00:46:50,340 to fulfill his expectations? 841 00:46:54,011 --> 00:46:56,413 The shot in the dark. 842 00:46:56,413 --> 00:46:58,615 And by our nature, we will miss white. 843 00:46:58,615 --> 00:47:01,618 Because we are poor in spirit. 844 00:47:03,987 --> 00:47:06,623 So high calling in it, 845 00:47:06,623 --> 00:47:08,592 isn't it? 846 00:47:08,592 --> 00:47:11,595 You and I will never get there on our own for doomed. 847 00:47:12,563 --> 00:47:14,665 But by the grace of God 848 00:47:14,665 --> 00:47:17,668 and the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit, 849 00:47:18,168 --> 00:47:21,004 he calls us to a high calling, and he fulfills it 850 00:47:21,004 --> 00:47:24,007 in us. 851 00:47:26,043 --> 00:47:29,046 You ready? 852 00:47:29,947 --> 00:47:30,180 Okay. 853 00:47:30,180 --> 00:47:31,548 These are the attitudes you choose. Now. 854 00:47:33,784 --> 00:47:37,254 When you go home tomorrow, this week. 855 00:47:37,254 --> 00:47:40,257 These are the attitudes. 856 00:47:40,357 --> 00:47:43,360 That will be your attitudes. 857 00:47:43,861 --> 00:47:46,830 Won't you pray with me? 858 00:47:50,767 --> 00:47:53,770 Father, these things. 859 00:47:53,804 --> 00:47:56,807 Sometimes I look at Scripture and I think there's. 860 00:47:57,708 --> 00:47:59,576 There's no way 861 00:47:59,576 --> 00:48:02,579 they're so contrary to who I am. 862 00:48:03,714 --> 00:48:05,549 And I realize that that is the reality 863 00:48:05,549 --> 00:48:08,552 because I am poor in spirit. 864 00:48:09,319 --> 00:48:11,421 And I can't manufacture these on my own. 865 00:48:11,421 --> 00:48:14,424 And I thank you that you don't expect me to. 866 00:48:17,661 --> 00:48:21,231 By your mercy and by your grace, father, I pray that you would 867 00:48:21,231 --> 00:48:24,234 create these attitudes in me, that I would choose these. 868 00:48:27,604 --> 00:48:28,705 And father, right now, 869 00:48:28,705 --> 00:48:31,775 I pray you hear the hearts of your people, your kids 870 00:48:33,777 --> 00:48:35,712 that are choosing these attitudes 871 00:48:35,712 --> 00:48:38,715 to be their attitudes. 872 00:48:41,018 --> 00:48:43,253 Friends, would you just 873 00:48:43,253 --> 00:48:45,656 agree with Scripture and walk through these 874 00:48:47,024 --> 00:48:49,793 in your heart right now? 875 00:48:49,793 --> 00:48:51,628 Father, I admit I am poor and spirit. 876 00:48:51,628 --> 00:48:54,631 There's nothing in me that would commend me to you. 877 00:48:55,766 --> 00:48:58,769 I'm spiritually bankrupt. 878 00:49:01,338 --> 00:49:04,341 God, I mourn the fact 879 00:49:04,675 --> 00:49:07,044 that sin has ruled in my life 880 00:49:07,044 --> 00:49:10,047 and that sin rules in this world. 881 00:49:14,918 --> 00:49:15,352 Father, 882 00:49:15,352 --> 00:49:21,458 I choose the attitude of meekness that I thank you that you've approved of me. 883 00:49:21,458 --> 00:49:25,262 So I have nothing to prove and no one to impress you. 884 00:49:25,963 --> 00:49:28,966 Help me hunger and thirst for righteousness. 885 00:49:34,237 --> 00:49:36,106 God, thank you for the mercy you've given me. 886 00:49:36,106 --> 00:49:39,109 Help me be merciful to others. 887 00:49:41,912 --> 00:49:44,881 Create in me a purity of heart, of sincerity, 888 00:49:45,248 --> 00:49:48,251 an unmixed heart. 889 00:49:53,023 --> 00:49:54,558 God, I want to be a peacemaker 890 00:49:54,558 --> 00:49:57,561 and help other people know you. 891 00:49:58,862 --> 00:50:01,365 And when I suffer, father, I will leap for joy. 892 00:50:05,569 --> 00:50:06,870 I want to be the light of the world. 893 00:50:06,870 --> 00:50:09,873 I want to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world. 894 00:50:10,741 --> 00:50:12,409 And God, I want that light to shine 895 00:50:12,409 --> 00:50:15,412 on my family. 896 00:50:16,713 --> 00:50:19,716 Father, you've called me to a high calling. 897 00:50:20,050 --> 00:50:22,552 Accomplish it in me, 898 00:50:22,552 --> 00:50:25,155 for me and through me. 899 00:50:25,155 --> 00:50:28,058 I choose you today, 900 00:50:28,058 --> 00:50:31,061 that these be my attitudes. 901 00:50:33,597 --> 00:50:34,264 In your name I pray. 902 00:50:34,264 --> 00:50:37,067 Amen. 903 00:50:37,067 --> 00:50:40,070 You all right? 904 00:50:41,471 --> 00:50:44,374 I want you to read this week, chapter five. 905 00:50:44,374 --> 00:50:45,675 Go back to the Beatitudes. 906 00:50:45,675 --> 00:50:47,811 Remind yourselves what they are, 907 00:50:47,811 --> 00:50:49,312 and read the rest of chapter five. 908 00:50:49,312 --> 00:50:51,615 We're going to Jesus, going to start putting the start, 909 00:50:51,615 --> 00:50:53,550 putting the throttle down. 910 00:50:53,550 --> 00:50:54,951 So get ready for it's going to be good. 911 00:50:54,951 --> 00:50:57,954 It can be tough. It's going to be good. 912 00:50:58,155 --> 00:50:58,622 Got it 913 00:50:59,689 --> 00:51:01,024 I love you. 914 00:51:01,024 --> 00:51:02,092 Stand up and let's sing.