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Intro

R U: poor, sad, lowly, brokenhearted for needy, hungry for r’ness, try to help? BRU!

Series: enjoy/more; believe, character

PV: SoM (Lk) most have something in common, diff order, plus others

This passage is what we call the “Beatitudes,” which comes from the Latin word for “blessed.” Jesus speaks these blessings at the very beginning of one of his earliest, if not the earliest, public sermon – a sermon we call “The Sermon on the Mount” because of where he gave it. Luke records a sermon that is very similar to this one, or perhaps this very same one. We’re not gong to cover every single one in the list today, but focus on those that have something very particular in common. We’re not going to cover them in the exact same order that Matthew records them, and we’ll add a few more helper verses in along the way.

Reader

Attrs

Poor in sp (Mt 5.3): (Lk “poor”) “pious poor”; aot haughty/self-suff, RE see need

Gentle/meek (Mt 5.5): ^weak; aot self-assertive/self-interest; ^RE self

Merciful/helpful (Mt 5.7): feel + do n; aot feel n do 0 or feel 0; Psa 41.1 (help)

Peacemakers (Mt 5.9): bringer of peace * n; aot dissent; tude v. instances

With God, with others, between others, just bring peace into a situation. Some people just bring peace when they walk into the room.

Weep/repentant (Mt 5.4): sorrowful for sin (repent or injust), aot insens, callous

Pure in heart (Mt 5.8): from weep to chg; aot OK w/dirt; only X, but pursuit

Hungry for r’ness (Mt 5.6)

Desire: (Lk: and thirst), > than want it, long for it; aot comfy wallowing in

Leads to doing (Isa 5.62; Ps 106.3; 119.1a)

Discover

In common? Attrs; aot checklist

SoM intros Koθ: how do beat’s fit in? [] Being like the Kingdom

Citizens ~ K’dom

Who’s K’dom? Who K? Therefore? Being like the King / reflect

JC was []: (note peace RE divide)

Incarnated k’dom

Citizens ~ King

Title: B=1who has his char

Resemble/reflect (cf. 5.48)

Lev moment: Law → reflect; Gospel: greater than Phars (cf. 5.20)

RS: AOT trying to be blessed w/o his char

Blessings: Those who reflect θ’s Char will...

Sorrows reversed

> than phys

PoorSp (see need) → have KoH/θ (^need; present tense, ABNY) (~wealth)

Gentle/meek (^RE self) → inherit earth (mill, AOT force/deceit) (~inherit)

Weep (sorrow 4 sin) → comfort (Lk: laugh), no regrets (~warmth of comf)

Hunger (desire) → sat w/r’ness (~food)

CR: deathbed wish: more toys+ v. future better = blessed

Blessed as they have blessed:

Eg: mercy → mercy, help → help/deliver; not lose it by giving it away

CR (Lk 6.38) = blessed

Stand tall (from psa, isa)

Not allowed to dry up

Not excluded from θ’s biz: ~X → > involved in what θ’s doing, think of eg’s

Handprint on our worship

Endure

Wiser than enemies, avoid their traps: those who want us to stumble

RV/CR: light: roaches, mirror = blessed

Assoc w/θ:

Called Soθ (Mt 5.9)

CR: Peter 1 v. Peter 2 (Act 4.13) = blessed

>Access:

Seeing θ (Mt 5.8; Psa 119 – bring into inner chamber)

Ult: In the gates (Rv 22.14)

CR: those who most notice his pres are those most ~him = blessed

Being like the King

Circular, but true

Own blessing: ^nd [bless], goal of sanct, destiny, perhaps >> blessing

CR: name someone more blessed to be ~; ~K/K’dom

AOT woes: (Lk 6.24-26)

All things we do to be “blessed”

Woe b/c X ^: self-suff (incarn), sat by world, laff @ sin, worried RE be liked

CR

I would like to be [attr]; But sometimes I’m [^attr]

& it never sats: same ol: sorrows, curses, same-o, distance, me

How will I see: sorrows reversed, blessed, stand tall, assoc, access, X~?

Let us (1 Cor 15.49): we can aspire, choose

Θ is doing it (2 Cor 3.18): we can’t, but can pursue/coop

How? Thru life stuff (2 Cor 4.17): how? Thru all the stuff u waddle thru daily

Therefore, rather than ask L to make life > me~, ask make me > X~: +resemble

More suited to my tastes, personality; resembling me.

Follow his ways to be like him, not to be liked by him

How see? Illus: Iran (pic); [attrs], they are blessed! will have [benies]? How?

SCT: Take on his blessings by taking on his character.

Denise (slides)

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Prayer

Lk 6.38

Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.

1Co 15:49

Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, let us also bear the image of the heavenly.

2Co 3:18

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

2Co 4:17

For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison.

Luke 6:24-26 (NASB)

24 “But woe to you who are rich, for you are receiving your comfort in full. 25 “Woe to you who are well-fed now, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. 26 “Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for in the same way their fathers used to treat the false prophets.

Iran

Maryam Rustampoor, 27, and Marzieh Amirizadeh, 30, were arrested and sent to Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran. The two women did not rob a bank, kill a man or beat up someone.

Their crime? Loving Jesus. And it is for this reason alone they arestill imprisoned.

In August during a court hearing, the two were questioned repeatedly about their faith. They were told to return to Islam.

"We love Jesus," was their reply. Prosecutors asked the women, who had already spent five months in prison, if they regretted being Christians.

"We have no regrets," they said. "We will not deny our faith."

The judge sent them back to Evin Prison - notorious for its brutality - to "think about" their decision.

"We have already done our thinking," they told him.

Maryam and Marzieh are among dozens of Iranian Christians arrested, detained or interrogated in Iran in recent months. The harassment is the radical Islamic government's response to an Iranian revival that has thousands of Iranians coming to Christ each month.

Order

1. Welcome/Announcements – Tim

2. Song – Lord I Lift Your Name on High

3. Song – Be Glorified

4. Children’s Time – Colby

5. Scripture Reading - Tiffany

6. Sermon -  Colby

7. Song – You are Worthy of My Praise