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And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people. So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them. And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.
And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Introduction:
Let me tell you a story about the first time I said I love you to my wife Callie
Let me tell you a story about the first time I said I love you to my wife Callie
I love you
Cool
Not, I love you too
but cool.
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That is exactly how many of us react when we here the Gospel/ Good News.
That is exactly how many of us react when we here the Gospel/ Good News.
God’s reign is here!
The age to come has invaded this present evil age!
Cool.?
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“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either.
This was the message Israel had been waiting for. This was the promise they had longed for.
This was the message Israel had been waiting for. This was the promise they had longed for.
The Pharisees thought they could bring the kingdom of God in by strict observance of the laws.
(If we act better the Messiah will come.)
The Sadducees thought they could create the Kingdom through civil laws and order.
(Come on guys we can do this).
The Herodians were those who had given up on the promise and hoped they could find wealth and peace in Rome.
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So when Jesus announces the Good news of the Kingdom of God (The age to come) it was a big deal.
So when Jesus announces the Good news of the Kingdom of God (The age to come) it was a big deal.
And the great question was this.
Who gets in?
Who gets in?
The wealthy?
The religious?
The powerful?
The Pious?
I know the good people right?
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And it is this question Jesus opens with in His first recorded public address about the Kingdom of God.
And it is this question Jesus opens with in His first recorded public address about the Kingdom of God.
Who gets to enter the Age to Come!
Who is Good enough to enter into the Kingdom of God?
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Blessed are the spiritually impoverished for theirs in the the reign of God!
Blessed are the spiritually impoverished for theirs in the the reign of God!
1. Blessed are the spiritually impoverished for theirs in the the reign of God!
a. They are blessed not because of their spiritual poverty but rather because their spiritual poverty allows them to be open to the reign of God.
b. Jesus is saying the reign of Heaven has come upon those who are spiritual zeros, desolate of any good spiritual qualities.
c. The reign of God has come upon the most undeserving, under qualified, the absolute spiritual zeros.
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The fact that God’s reign has touched them in Jesus is the blessing.
The fact that God’s reign has touched them in Jesus is the blessing.
The fact that they have been received into the reign of God without any spiritual value is the blessing.
Blessed is the Meth addict because the reign of God has touched them and accepted them in.
Blessed are the sexually perverse for the reign of God has grabbed them and accepted them in.
Blessed are those who do not know the difference between Matthew and Leviticus for the reign of God has met them where they are at and has accepted them in.
Blessed is the alcoholic woman who sleeps around looking for love, because the reign of God has caught her in Jesus and in absolute love accepted her in.
Blessed is the war vet who is fighting suicidal thoughts over what he saw and did, because the reign of God has captured him and fully accepted him in.
Blessed is mother who is turning tricks to put bread on the table for her children because in Jesus the reign of God is hers.
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You are accepted in to the reign of God not because of what you have or don’t have but, because of God’s incredible love.
You are accepted in to the reign of God not because of what you have or don’t have but, because of God’s incredible love.
If you feel that you do not deserve God’s love; if you feel that you have nothing to offer; if you feel that your past or present life could never be forgiven, God’s message to you today is that in Jesus you are welcome into the Reign of God.
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Yea but pastor that is not me. I am deserving of God’s blessings.
Yea but pastor that is not me. I am deserving of God’s blessings.
I deserve to enter the Age to come.
I am good, moral, ethical, dang it I am an American!
Well then, let me be clear. Not only are you not deserving but you have disqualified yourself with your own statement.
We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
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as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;
no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
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If you want to live in the blessings of the reign of God, you must come to the reality that we are or were all spiritual zeros at one time.
If you want to live in the blessings of the reign of God, you must come to the reality that we are or were all spiritual zeros at one time.
o. We must stop depending on our own abilities, our own goodness, our own positions of power and depend on the reign of God.
We must stop depending on our own abilities, our own goodness, our own positions of power and depend on the reign of God.
We must stop depending on our own abilities, our own goodness, our own positions of power and depend on the reign of God.
p. Jesus is our best example of this principle lived out.
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He was not reliant on His own ability or authority but emptied himself of that and relied only on the Father.
Martin Loyed Jones summarizes best what spiritual poverty looks like. Pg 40 &41
This kind of spiritual poverty allows us to rely on the Reign of God rather than relying on our own forms of power which are insufficient.
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Poverty of Spirit produces two incredible outcomes.
Poverty of Spirit produces two incredible outcomes.
When we recognize our poverty of spirit it will cause us to mourn.
With this mourning over our own poverty we are promised that God Himself will comfort us.
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And when we have experienced the comfort of God as we mourn our own spiritual poverty we are given a supernatural ability to comfort those who are mourning.
And when we have experienced the comfort of God as we mourn our own spiritual poverty we are given a supernatural ability to comfort those who are mourning.
When we live in pride about our own abilities we are incapable of being gentle to those around us who are mourning.
1. We can comfort those who are experiencing pain from their own lack because we have been comforted in our lack.
2. We can comfort those who have experienced great loss because we too have been comforted in experiencing loss.
3. We can comfort those we may have seen as those not worthy, in the wrong, and in sin. Because we have concluded that we too are spiritually impoverished and have been comforted by God.
And God leaves us with this promise:
That is we treat others with a gentleness out of a response to His gentleness to us, we shall inherit the earth.
(In other words when the “Time to come” is finally here, those who will inherit this New heaven and Earth will be those who lived with a Gentle spirit.)
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Main Point Ideas?
We can never experience the blessings of God’s reign until we first experience the reality of our own spiritual poverty.
We can never experience the blessings of God’s reign until we first experience the reality of our own spiritual poverty.
We can never experience the blessings of God’s reign until we first experience the reality of our own spiritual poverty.
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God does not accept you because of your poverty but rather despite our poverty of spirit.
God does not accept you because of your poverty but rather despite our poverty of spirit.
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God finds all of us in the same place “Spiritual Poverty” but he never leaves us there.
God finds all of us in the same place “Spiritual Poverty” but he never leaves us there.
A radical shift in how we see others will take place when, we realize the radical nature of God’s acceptance of us into His Reign.
A radical shift in how we see others will take place when, we realize the radical nature of God’s acceptance of us into His Reign.
No matter where you are in life, there is Hope, real hope and that hope is found in Jesus.
No matter where you are in life, there is Hope, real hope and that hope is found in Jesus.
No matter where you are in life, there is Hope, real hope and that hope is found in Jesus.