“Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”
Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV
Happy Father’s Day
Author: Tabby
The Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes
I’m studying..
The Sermon on the Mount
Here is the Beatitudes….
My notes on what I’ve learned so far.
I pray that God will continue to give me the Hunger & Thirst for His truth, not the worlds.
Note: the sermon on the mount of a for followers of Christ.
Is like the new Ten Commandments for believers, I’m not in anyways saying the Ten Commandments in the Old Testament is obsolete but Jesus expounds on it for Followers of Christ.
The Sermon on the Mount
“Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.”
Matthew 5:1 ESV
~Jesus going up the mountain is Reminiscent of Moses going up Mount Sinai to get the tablet of the 10 Commandments. Rabbis normally sat as they reached.
The Beatitudes
Matthew 5:2-12 ESV
2.”And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
~Blessed: is a spiritual well-being verses an emotional feeling of happiness
3.”Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
~believer realizing they are poor(not materialistic) because of their sins(spiritually bankrupted)and hunger & thirst for righteousness which is in Salvation in Jesus.
4.”Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
~believer mourns over theirs sins(godly sorrow) which produces repentance that leads to salvation. Repentance & confession of sins will be a way of life for a believer.
5.”Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
~an attitude of humility & submission to God, just as Jesus did.
~Inherit the promise of Abraham, “But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.”
Hebrews 11:16 ESV
6.”Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
~the believer seeks for God Righteousness not their own, and seeking a relationship with God.
7.”Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
~the sinner who has recognized the awesomeness of God’s Mercy, therefore will treat others with mercy as God has do to them
8.”Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
~a believer sees God through faith in Jesus. Jesus said, believer who see him will see their Father, they will also see the glory of heaven.
9.”Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
~Jesus is our Peace maker by reconciling us to God through his death on the cross. Therefore we become reconcilers by sharing the gospel to others.
10.”Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11.”Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
12.Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
~ ““If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.”
John 15:18-21 ESV
Discipling
Discipling a new born again believer should be a Priority.
They shouldn’t be allowed to fall to the waist side.
New Believer are like toddlers, who need to be shepherd.
When a church, lacks any opportunities to disciple new believers, you are dishonoring the Body of Christ.
Hating isn’t the Solution
Hate doesn’t solve anything,
But more hating.
Writing Legislation into Law won’t, change a person heart or mind.
It take a transformation from the inside.
Jesus is the answer to all the problems of the World.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
(17)For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
(18)He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
John 3:16-18 KJV
In HIS Word, I Put My Hope
“Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
O Israel / America, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption.
And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.”
Psalm 130:1-8 ESV
