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There we go.

A conversational relationship with God.

And note the subtitle because we we've been doing this for a couple of weeks, loving God, and loving others were, that's the the great Command, right?

Love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and soul and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.

That's what Jesus said was the greatest command and we live and act and Breathe by that.

But the second subtitle is recovering, who we were meant to be okay?

We were we were created by Creator.

God in the garden for relationship with him and boom.

Thin Rebellion happened and we were separated from God.

But God didn't leave us on our own.

He made a plan for us to have a conversational relationship with him.

A face-to-face day-by-day, moment-by-moment encounter with the almighty God and how could he do that?

Because we know from the word that you cannot see God and live.

Meaning you cannot face the full Glory.

The reality that Shekinah Glory, the fire of God and, and not be consumed by it.

So God had a plan from the very beginning.

Even in creation, even in the Rebellion, God had a plan and that was that Jesus Christ would come in the right time.

According to Paul, I wish you'd come a lot sooner, but Paul says he came in the right time and that's, that's God.

God's plan was coming the right time.

And he came in the form of Jesus, who lived and laughed, and loved and ran, and Aid and played.

Slept and gathered around him people to whom he could teach like you and me a little handful of people who he that down on the grass on a slope and he taught them.

And we're going to actually take a step back today because we're going to look at the Beatitudes again.

Matthew 5 1 through 12, but before we do that, I wanted to put up this picture because What we're doing Loops?

I have to start my slideshow.

Sorry.

so, what we're doing is, We're learning how to be the kind of people.

Who are in relationship with God so that what God planned, what Jesus intended for his disciples to be is just a natural outflow, okay?

Talk to put it in another way.

We're not trying to be busy, people who just do a lot more stuff for God.

Okay, we could do that.

That's alright.

I think that's our kind of our default mode.

You know, we have a list of things that we've got to do and if we check all these things, often, we're okay, no matter what our heart is telling us, okay?

What Jesus is saying in his word, is he wants us to be the kind of people who are in heart, heart relationship with him.

So that all the things that we need to do all the things we should be.

Are automatically there.

And so this image, I just love the The fact that it has in a love, the Lord, your God, with all your heart and mind, soul and strength, the dates of the tree, the tree receives its energy, its life from Two basic thing, son, which is metamorphosis, that's not the right word.

What's when I leave gets the stuff from the sign, I forgot the word photosynthesis photosynthesis that homeschoolers, we have songs for everything.

And so, yes, photosynthesis is when the tree receives sunlight and it turns that sunlight into energy but it also has to have another thing called water, right?

Which we don't have a whole lot here in SoCal, but the rain which also comes from Heaven.

It's a beautiful picture of God's provision of the light and the rain that are received in the branches and the trees, but it goes deep down into the roots.

And someone tells us that as we abide in him and his word abides in us, as Jesus says, we will be like A tree planted by a river.

Blossoming in All Seasons, right?

Cuz that's what that's that's the movement of love.

The Lord your God with all your heart mind, soul and strength in them.

Love your neighbor as yourself, right?

You're embracing others, your your weaving, your lives, your life.

Not only with God, but with others and people on your right drawer of your close family and people on your left, your friends or neighbors, even strangers, okay?

People around the world and I just did a simple little thing.

I took a marker on the computer and I just put across industry because at the center of all, this is the cross of Jesus Christ.

It is a beautiful image of that, loving God and loving each other and love comes through sacrifice giving.

So let's move on.

Let's take a look again at The Sermon, on the Mount and then I'll explain why we're doing it again.

So I'm going to read Matthew 5 verses 1 through 12 from the New Living Translation, okay?

Follow along, if you like in your in your version or you can look on the on the board one day as he saw the crowds Gathering, Jesus went up on the mountain side and that down.

Now I have said before that, he gathered the crowds.

There's some truth to that because his popularity he is cute curiosity.

You know, who is this guy?

Remember, we talked about John call and lots of people.

And lots of people went out of town and went to the river and repent and be baptized and they were baptized, you know change turnaround.

Stop sinning was the message John but he was prepare, get ready for something is coming.

And so then this other guy Jesus shows up on the scene and This says as the crowds were gathering so they were gathering out to see him and he used that moment to sit them down and teach his disciples gathered around him and he began to teach them saying, God, blesses, those who report and realize their need for him.

For the Kingdom of Heaven is there's God blesses, those who mourn for they will be comforted.

God, blesses those who are humble for, they will inherit the whole earth.

God blesses, those who are hungry and thirst for justice, or righteousness, for they will be satisfied.

God, blesses, those who are merciful for, they will be shown mercy God, blesses, those whose hearts are pure for they will see God, God blesses, those who work for peace for they shall be called the children of God.

God blesses, those who are persecuted for doing, right?

For the Kingdom of Heaven is there's God, blesses, you when people mock you and persecute you and lie to you about you and say all sorts of evil things about you.

Because you are my followers, be happy.

About it.

Be very glad for a great reward awaits you in heaven.

And remember, the ancient prophets were persecuted in the same way?

Now, remember we, we, we always talk about the both and, and, and the principles you, you can take this and you can turn it upside down.

Not literally, but I'm going to go from the bottom starting at verse 10.

The Kingdom of Heaven is for those who are persecuted.

K9.

The people called the children of God are those who work for peace.

So see you can you can God blesses, those who but you can also flip it and and 47.

Those.

You will be shown Mercy as you show.

Mercy.

Is the, is the reverse principal, right?

Humility, you will inherit the earth as you are humble.

Okay.

So today, what I want to do, let's look at the summary because we're on a journey.

Okay.

And I write this summary up every Tuesday, so I can send it to the praise team.

So, they'll know where we're going along with an outline.

And then I usually put it on the

The website that we have a, we are on a journey.

The goal is being like Christ.

OK.

Google.

We want to be like Jesus, okay?

We are learning from Jesus how to live our life, as if we were living our life as if he were living our life.

And that's a simple, very clear, very definite definition of discipleship.

What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus?

We are living.

Are we are learning from Jesus how to live our life, as if he were living our life for us or with us.

Jesus never did anything apart from the father, his relationship to God.