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Intro –
So, what do the Bad News Bears, Grade School Basketball and the Beatitudes have in common?
Intro – Bad news bears – Grade school Basketball team – This is exactly what the Beattitudes are about.
Bad news bears – Grade school Basketball team – This is exactly what the Beatitudes are about.
This is not a list of qualifiers – This is not a list of “Do this and you get in”
Why – Because
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Jesus is not saying your life is blessed because you are a spiritual 0
Jesus is not saying your life is blessed because you are a spiritual 0
Jesus is not saying your life is blessed because you are a spiritual 0
He is saying your spiritual 0 life is blessed because you are welcome into his Kingdom.
The mourning mother who lost her child is blessed in the Kingdom because God comforts her and gives her a confidence and peace that passes all understanding.
The Meek and scared become blessed when they enter God’s reign and through Him they will take the world.
Those who hate the darkness inside them are blessed when they encounter the King for he frees them and gives them His righteousness.
Blessed is the girl who has been raped, and abused, blessed is the child who was molested because in the Kingdom of God, Jesus will heal their scars and give them true justice.
Blessed are those who show mercy and are walked over by the powerful for God in Jesus will give them eternal mercy.
Blessed is the teen who is pure in heart and made fun of, picked on, and ridiculed for it.
Because they will see God face to face.
Etc.
These are the people the world systems reject and look down on.
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This is Jesus saying - the world’s left overs are blessed when the Kingdom of the Heavens captures their hearts.
This is Jesus saying – My rule and righteousness are freely available to all of humanity through reliance upon Jesus himself.
This is God saying – In Jesus I am going to take in the world’s rejects and give them the life that humanity was meant to live.
This list of people are blessed not because of what they have done, but because Jesus has accepted them in and then transformed them.
Jesus has opened the reign and righteousness of God to everyone.
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Jesus says they are blessed –
The Greek word here is what the Greek myths used to describe the blissful lives of the gods.
The Biblical writers used the word to describe the blessed life humanity was meant to live, rather than a cursed life.
Jesus is telling us he is taking the cursed and rejects and turning their cursed lives upside down and transforming those lives into blessed, joyful, beautiful lives.
When the zeros, broken, addicted come into the reign of God, they become radically changed and Radically blessed.
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What this list might look like today:
A list by Dallas Willard:
“Blessed are the physically repulsive,
Blessed are those who smell bad,
The twisted, misshapen, deformed,
The too big, too little, too loud,
The bald, the fat, and the old –
For they are all riotously celebrated in the party of Jesus”
Blessed are the seriously crushed ones; the flunk-outs and drop-outs and burn-outs.
The broke and the broken.
The drug heads and divorced.
The HIV positive and herpes-ridden.
The brain damaged, the incurably ill.
The barren and the pregnant-too many times or at the wrong times.
Blessed are the parents whose children live on the streets, the lonely, incompetent, the stupid emotionally damaged and the emotionally dead.
The Kingdom is available to you regardless of circumstances.
The life humanity has been searching for through the ages is quietly attained in the quietly transforming friendship of Jesus the King.
What about the immoral, the terrorist, the murderer, the rapist, the racist, the cheat, the Atheist, the blood sucker, the liar, the vengeful?
Blessed, Blessed, Blessed.
As they flee into the arms of the Kingdom among us, the reign of God found in Jesus.
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Now you can feel a little sympathy for those who hated Jesus.
“This man is friends with sinners and even eats with them.”
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Through Jesus the Kingdom of God has opened its gates for all to enter in and to be radically changed.
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This is who God is and who He has always been.
(, , , and the list goes on.)
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This is who we are to be
If our church is full of nice, clean, perfect people we have missed the boat.
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This is the Gospel of the Kingdom of God
Send me the losers, the broken, the weak, the imperfect, the ugly, the immoral, and I will transform them into a Beauty that will put to shame this world.
No one is too lost, no one is too far for the Kingdom of God.
No one can boast in themselves but we all can boast in the mercy and transforming power of Jesus.
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We will end today with worship and communion.
If you know someone you thought was too far for God to reach, I want you to thank God that no one is too far gone for His Kingdom.
If you, yourself are ready to enter God’s Reign and allow Jesus to turn your cursed life into a blessed life, then I invite you to go to a prayer team in the back and pray with them today.
For the rest of us, use this time to worship the God who accepted you in and has been transforming your life.
Today is a day to rejoice because we have GOOD NEWS.
Next week we will talk about how God takes these dregs of the world and uses them to preserve, give beauty, and transform our world by the might of His Kingdom.
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