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Catchy Introduction
Start with question—how many people here like to read?
How many wish they loved reading?
Despise reading?
Is it okay for me to brag?
I’m holding mic—question is irrelevant
How many don’t even know how to read
Last year I listened/read 25 books
I appreciate you hold your applause
That may not sound like a lot—big for me
I may pass that this year
I am listening to one book—It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get it/Keep it
Written by Craig Groeschel—favorite author
It’s a book on church leadership
Chapter 6 in this book is entitled “you enjoy it with other”
This chapter is about building a leadership team that enjoys being around one another
I’m Chris if you don’t know—Kevin lead pastor in Marion
In case you didn’t know—him and I get along
We will jab at one another—enjoy hanging out with each other
Each couple of months he gives me a new title
Once a month on Tuesdays all campus pastors are here in Americus
Those days can be busy b/c I will help out Robbie/others
Kevin thought it would be funny to call me “assistant to all, pastor to none”
I really enjoy Kevin b/c he’s merciful
In other words: compassionate, empathic
He have our silly moments but he can be series/compassionate too
Its enjoyable to be around merciful people
Whether you consider yourself merciful or not
My goal is that after today you will become a more merciful person
Realize the importance of mercy in our lives
Introduction to Teaching
If we haven’t meet I’m Chris
Kevin is Marion
We are continuing in a series called stranger things
We are learning to embrace the upside down kingdom of God
God’s way of life is counter-cultural—different from how most of us live
We have learned that in God’s space/world:
Less means more
How to find comfort when we mourn over our sins
Learned meekness is not weakness but it is in fact gentleness
How to live satisfied
In this series we have read these verses from
Sermon on the Mount —starts with beatitudes (blessings)
Jesus’ first words are:
(NIV) “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
Another word for blessed is happy
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who acknowledge their
Happy are those who acknowledge they are spiritual helpless
complete spiritual bankruptcy,
Happy you will be when you realize you need God
for theirs is the kingdom of God.
(NIV) “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.”
Blessed are those who mourn,
Happy are those who mourn over their sins
for they will be comforted.
We don’t like to acknowledge the wrong we’ve done—we like to hid it
Jesus promises that we will be blessed when we stop, pause, and grieve over how we have hurt God/others
As we pause and acknowledge—God will comfort us
(NIV) “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.”
5 Blessed are the meek,
Through this we learned meekness is not weakness
for they will inherit the earth.
Meekness is power/strength under control
We are not doormats—we will be as blessed as we are gentle
Last week Kevin read (NIV)
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”
2,000 yrs ago—group of people called Pharisees
They held onto the belief that if they separate themselves from people they will be more holy
We are to hunger for more of God
We call this “self righteousness””—you are higher than everyone else
When we read “righteousness” in this verse—its “God righteousness”
Stop eating spiritual junk food, look to Jesus, live out of our fullness
With God’s righteousness we put others first—not last
This brings us to todays beatitude—verse 7
This kind of righteousness leads us to mercy
Connects us to our verse today
Teaching
(NIV) “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.”
This is 1 out of over 200 verses in the Bible on mercy
For the rest of our time today I will be reading all these verse on mercy
Bad preacher joke—only gets worse
I read to you , , ,
These beatitudes are all about depending on God
Depending on him for help, gentleness, righteousness
The beatitudes after these are about the outworking of that dependence
As we depend on God—we become more merciful to others
But we first have to realize how merciful God is to us
1 verse that has helped me recognize God’s mercy is
Read it first, back story afterwards
Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
In there is a story about a king name David
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