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Introduction
Today we are starting a new sermon series, titled The Sermons of Jesus...
We’ll start the message today in Matthew chapter 5.
This is the classic text of the Sermon on the Mount.
We’ll focus today on the Beatitudes of Christ.
Pray with me.
I mean somebody who just seems to personify the Beatitudes.
The story is told of two brothers who grew up on a farm.
One went away to college, earned a law degree, and became a partner in a prominent law firm in the state capital.
The other brother stayed on the family farm.
One day the lawyer came and visited his brother, the farmer.
He asked, “Why don’t you go out and make a name for yourself and hold your head up high in the world like me.”
The brother pointed and said, “See that field of wheat over there?
Look closely.
Only the empty heads stand up.
Those that are well filled always bow low.”
Said differently, “The branch that bears the most fruit is bent the lowest to the ground.”
Humility
Pray with me.
Pray with me.
Pray with me.
Father please bless our time together in your word.
May the message that you have for us, penetrate our hearts and minds and impact the way that we interact with this world.
Father, please give me clarity of mind, and precision of speech, that I may be a vessel carrying your message to your people gathered here today.
Amen.
I.
The Sermon on the Mount -
A. Confused World Views
Confused world views on this message:
The Sermon on the Mount has been misunderstood by believers and by the world ever since it was spoken by Jesus Christ as he stood on a small hill near the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
They are considering this message from the viewpoint of the world, rather than interpreting this message from a knowledge of God in scripture and Jesus Christ.
In order to make sense of this message, one must understand the Son of God, who came to flip the tables on a corrupt religion, establish His kingdom on earth, and die on a Roman cross, leaving behind a rag-tag remnant of nobodies.
But is was those nobodies, who were empowered by the very Spirit of God to accomplish far more than anybody other than God Himself understood.
Some say this is indicative of God’s plan of salvation.
Others say that this is what we must be in order to go to heaven.
Still others consider it a “charter for world peace.”
Once all the inhabitants of the earth just do this, peace will suddenly appear.
And yet another group says that these are the rules of living in some distant utopian future.
But all of these views are warped.
They are considering this message from the viewpoint of the world, rather than interpreting this message from a knowledge of God in scripture and Jesus Christ.
In order to make sense of this message, one must understand the Son of God, who came to flip the tables on a corrupt religion, establish His kingdom on earth, and die on a Roman cross, leaving behind a rag-tag remnant of nobodies.
But is was those nobodies, who were empowered by the very Spirit of God to accomplish far more than anybody other than God Himself understood.
B. We Must Know Him First
Oswald Chambers said, “We must know [Jesus Christ] first as Savior before His teaching has any meaning for us, or before it has any meaning other than that of an ideal which leads to despair.”
Can you imagine trying to live up to a standard like the Beatitudes without having Christ as your savior first?
Here’s the quick list:
be humble
live under circumstances that cause grief
be gentle
crave righteousness
be merciful
be free of a guilty mind
always mediate for harmonious relations
be willing to be a target for what you believe
be willing to take insults and lies
And somehow… we’re supposed to “Rejoice and be glad?”
We are taught in this world that all these things are weakness.
We are taught in this world that all these things are weakness.
Here’s the real kicker… you can’t live up to this standard.
Yes, I do agree there are good things in this list to aspire to.
In fact, there were several moments this week where I wished that I had been able to achieve one or two of these in particular...
Now the world looks at this list and either tries to make something out of these things that they are not… OR they say, “Well I can never do all of that stuff anyway… It sure is pretty to hear you read it though!”
OR they say, “Well none of you Christians do any of that stuff anyway!”
Now the world looks at this list and either tries to make something out of these things that they are not… OR they say, “Well I can never do all of that anyway… Sure is pretty though!”
Here’s what the Bible has to say about the world trying to make sense out of scripture...
…and further down...
1 cor 1:2
This is not a message for the whole world...
Look at verse 1...
I know preachers that have claimed this message was preached on a mountain so that everybody could hear Jesus’ words.
I don’t believe that’s what happened at all.
I believe that Jesus was leading His disciples away from the crowds that were always following Him.
He wanted to teach them something special.
Something that the crowds wouldn’t understand.
He wanted to teach them something about what it would be like to follow Him.
He was talking with His disciples, those who were closest to Him.
This is ultimately a message for those who believe in and follow Christ:
Jesus did not come to earth to dangle a standard in front of us that we can never achieve!
He came to break a false standard that was being imposed on the people by the Pharisees.
PRINCIPLE The truth is that WE cannot achieve the standard of the Beatitudes.
But the Beatitudes CAN be achieved IN us and THROUGH us, by the completed work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
We have no power in this regard.
But Jesus Christ came to make broken things whole and to make the ugly beautiful.
His Spirit is remaking us into living models of the Beatitudes.
We just have to give His Spirit room to work in us and through us.
That means that we have to pick ourselves up out of our pride, and our grief, and our anger at all that’s going on in this injust world around us and focus on the person of Jesus Christ.
We must forget our circumstances and allow His Spirit to mold us and make us into the spitting image of Jesus Christ Himself.
This is a message of what the Holy Spirit tries to put in us… The very characteristics of Christ Himself.
II.
What Are Beatitudes and Why Are They Important?
A. Blessed
Blessed
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μακάριος
makarios
blessed; happy, fortunate
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beatus (Latin)
happy; blessed
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Ultimately this state of blessedness refers to the favor of God, which has been conveyed to man (that means “put into man”).
It speaks of a sense of well-being in God’s sight.
These beatitudes are second-nature to the righteous person, that is the one who has faith and hope in God.
When you look at the godly man, the one who is connected to Yahweh, Jehovah, the God of Israel, these are the traits that you see.
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