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201. Epiphany 6

Matthew 5:17-20

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... ?" Or "We may not use four-letter words but how do we take the Lord's name casually?" Give plenty of time for people to consider these questions. For the assurance of pardon, remind them of Jesus' words in Matthew 5:20. Refer to the Beatitudes as a way to move beyond self-righteousness to a life of grace which promises a fulfilled, wholesome, satisfied life. You may want to have a soloist sing the popular song, "Satisfied Mind," by Rhodes and Hayes, copyright 1955 by Starrite Music Company. Sole selling ...

202. Which Jesus? This Jesus!

Acts 17:1-9

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Barbara Brokhoff

... to the teachers and asking questions. And those men, some of them the finest thinkers of their time, were astonished at his understanding and answers. He taught "as one having authority." More than any other sage, he taught us of God. Those who heard his beatitudes, his parables, his words of wisdom and power, finally had to say, "Never man spake like this man." You can think of Christ as an ancient teacher, and he was. But he is likewise of today and tomorrow. His Spirit, his words, his teachings, are ...

203. God's In This

Matthew 5:1-12

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Brett Blair

... eternal truths. I like to think that those who sat around Jesus on that day in Galilee when he first preached, "Blessed are the poor in spirit," looked at each other with that look that says, "That's right!" "I understand what he is saying." God's in this." The Beatitudes are words so deep they almost defy explanation.

204. Healthy Are the Poor In Spirit

Matthew 5:1-12

Illustration

... from their own discipline. The chest expert was concerned about coal dust from the mines and lint from textile mills, while the psychiatrist was concerned about the effects off urban stress. Finally, Dr. Harold Sladen offered came up with an appropriate idea. He said: Let's just republish the eight beatitudes of Jesus and simply replace the word "Blessed" with the words "healthy."

205. Love of God and Love of Country

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Harold Warlick

... because they dreaded misuse of power above everything else. Today’s world, I am afraid, is a world in which power is being badly misused. In a very real way, the Christian ethic is a check on power. People who put the principles set forth in the Beatitudes above worldly gain are a check on the power-hungry people in our world. Today’s world, then, is a world sorely in need of the Christian ethic. Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn is admired by many of us for prophetically pointing the finger of shame at the ...

206. Salvation as Personal Experience

Romans 9:30--10:21

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T. A. Kantonen

... Romans 10:10). Faith is not an accomplishment of any kind but simply taking God at his word when he offers salvation as a gift. It is that childlike receptivity, spiritual poverty, acute concern, hunger and thirst after righteousness, which Jesus in the beatitudes makes the one entrance requirement into the Kingdom. This is the attitude which opened the door to paradise to the thief on the cross and which led the Philippian jailer from the verge of suicide to midnight baptism. Faith is not only receptivity ...

207. The Christian’s Style - 1960

Matthew 11:1-19

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Kent Moorehead

... of these specific expressions of Jesus’ ethical demands. We can neatly nullify them one way or another. But his style - that rebukes us, bothers us, irks and irritates us no end. This is the truth that gives such spiritual potency to that generally ignored, extra beatitude which we have chosen for our first text: "Blessed is the man who finds nothing that repels him in me!" Tragically enough, most of us are not blessed because we find plenty in him that repels us - his style repels us, because it is so ...

208. The Evangelism Of Emphasis - 1946

Matthew 5:1-12

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Kent Moorehead

... obviously needed to be said. But his emphasis was quite different. For one of censure, he uttered a hundred of praise. He knew well enough that an ounce of appreciation is worth a pound of blame. So he was forever blessing people. His Beatitudes sound the keynote of his habitual attitude. Blessed are the poor in spirit, they that mourn, the meek, the hungry and thirsty after righteousness, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, and they that are persecuted for righteousness sake (Matthew 5). Now ...

209. Picking A Winner, Claiming A Treasure

Matthew 13:44-46

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Bill Bouknight

... was so joyful that he was called the "Bridegroom of the world." His enemies attacked him for having too much fun. They called him a glutton and winebibber. A portion of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount could be entitled, "Nine Ways to be happy." That's what the Beatitudes are about. We who have claimed the treasure of Christ have the only joy that the world cannot take away. We have a pardon which no judge can overrule. We have an eternal life that no cancer can interrupt. We have a mission that no president can ...

210. Building According To Code

Matthew 7:24-29

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Brett Blair

... more solid on which to base your life than these words from the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon has been called the Christian Magna Charta, the Christian Manifesto, the Design for Life, and the Rules for Christian Living. It contains the Beatitudes, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Golden Rule. It deals with murder, adultery, divorce, oaths, revenge, and worry. It gives instructions on prayer, giving to the poor, fasting, judging others, and saving money. Just listen to this list of phrases from the Sermon ...

211. The Ten Commandments - Part 1

Exodus 20:1-21

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Brett Blair

... personal happiness. We live in a society that pursues pleasure and seeks to avoid struggle. These persons see the church as a kind of religious spa, and they evaluate it upon what personal benefits they receive. True, the Bible does speak of happiness. In the Beatitudes, the word blessed can be interpreted happy. Out happiness is not seen as a pursuit, but rather as a byproduct of a life centered in God. C Third is the false gods we create through idolatry. Idolatry in its most classic sense is shaping wood ...

212. The Forgotten Virtue

Philippians 2:1-11

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Louis H. Valbracht

... Ben added humility to his list, last, but that’s not where it comes in the Word of God. In the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, in that sermon that we call the Sermon on the Mount, in that section of the sermon that we call the Beatitudes, He puts this first: "Happy are the humbleminded, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." Yes, humility came first, and the whole Word of God is filled with one statement after another, one narrative after another, which points up the fact that proud virtue is the worst ...

213. Right Next Door

Mark 12:28-34

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Robert F. Crowley

Theme: All too often the evil we see in another is the evil that is within ourselves. The beatitudes are at their core a plea for a pure heart. This cannot be attained by striving but by the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Then we can be trustworthy and forgiving. Summary: Stan and his wife Chloe are in the midst of a fight that has lasted all week. Stan ...

214. The Home Under God

Matthew 6:5-15

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T. A. Kantonen

... commending mere childishness, smallness, ignorance, a low or arrested level of development. He used a child, not a dwarf, as his example. What Jesus commended, above all, is the sensitive open-minded receptivity that marks a normal child. As he teaches in the beatitudes, he makes such receptivity the essential prerequisite for entrance into his kingdom. The child receives in order that he may grow, he is willing to learn, ready to be helped. When we allow ourselves to get into a rut and become complacent or ...

215. The Communion of Saints

Hebrews 12:1-13

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T. A. Kantonen

... when he said that a Christian is a saint and a sinner at the same time. He is a sinner but one who is on a footing of war against sin both in himself and in life around him. This conception of sainthood underlies the beatitudes, the traditional gospel lesson for All Saints’ Day. Our Lord ascribes blessedness to the poor in spirit, the mournful and penitent, the meek and humble, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, the merciful, the sincere, the peacemakers, the reviled and persecuted. The road ...

216. The Gospel for Labor Day

Matthew 20:1-16

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T. A. Kantonen

... . A man must have the chance to provide honestly for himself and his family by performing such service as his natural abilities and training equip him to perform. It has been said that the spirit of our Lord’s teaching may be expressed by still another beatitude, "Blessed are they who give us back our self-respect." Certainly the old dog-eat-dog economy with its slogan, "Each man for himself, the devil take the hindmost," is not in keeping with Christ’s teaching. Too many hindmost are left to the devil ...

217. The Struggle of Faith

Matthew 11:1-19

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Gregory J. Johanson

... the poor have good news preached to them." These evidences of deliverance are everywhere, but the realistic fact is that they are not universal. They happen to some, but not to all. Then it is that Jesus speaks what has been called the most neglected of all the Beatitudes, "And blessed is he who takes no offense at me." John dies in the prison. "Blessed is he that takes no offense." It is a word for that time, and it is a word for our time. For faith is comparatively easy when things go well; faith becomes ...

218. Two Blessings for an Unwed Mother

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45

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William G. Carter

... as “theotokos,” that is, “the Mother of God.” The woman who gave birth to the Holy Child was, in their thinking, the one who brought God into the world. That’s a staggering claim! But the story seems to give more weight to the second beatitude that Elizabeth uttered. For Elizabeth said, “Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her by the Lord.” “Blessed is she who believed.” All the more remarkable, given all the fact that faith doesn’t come ...

219. The Healing Power of the Cross

Luke 23:26-43, Mark 15:33-41, Luke 23:44-49

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James W. Moore

... gone through much agony because I have found that when we are in pain, that’s when we quote scripture the most. Time after time, I have walked into hospital rooms and found people quoting the 23rd Psalm or the Lord’s Prayer or the Beatitudes. It is also interesting to note that in every prayer we have that Jesus prayed, he always calls God Father except here, which probably means he was quoting another man’s prayer, namely, the 22nd Psalm. A third interpretation of this haunting verse is that this ...

220. Are You the One?

Matthew 11:1-19

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David E. Leininger

... Or are you actually hearing what John is saying, not just to the royal house, but to you? Are you going out to hear him because he is good entertainment? Or are you going out to hear God's Word to you? Penetrating questions. Now, back to that unusual beatitude: "Blessed is the man who does not fall away because of me." Other versions say, "Blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me" (NRSV), or "has no doubts about me" (TEV), or "who does not find me an obstacle to faith" (REB). The Greek word behind those ...

221. Will This Be On The Test?

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

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King Duncan

... , or someone in another important occupation, did learn their material and knows what he or she is talking about ” or at least knows how and where to find the answers! Once a Sunday school teacher asked her class, "Does anyone know where to find the Beatitudes?" One little boy replied, "Did you look in the Yellow pages?" (Quoted by James Dent in Charleston WV GAZETTE) The debate over the difference between grades and knowledge has gone on for years, and will likely continue for many more. In any case, my ...

222. Searching For Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

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King Duncan

... be if we were to qualify. FIRST OF ALL, SAINTHOOD IS A LIFESTYLE. It is an alternative lifestyle, we might say. Saints are people who ta ke the teachings of Jesus seriously. Consider our lesson from Matthew's Gospel the socalled Beatitudes. Blessed are the merciful . . . Blessed are the peace makers . . . Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness . . . Blessed are those who are persecuted for my name's sake . . ." There is nothing here about financial security, nothing about classy threads ...

223. The Heart Of The Matter

Matthew 5:1-12

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Eric Ritz

... the right time. Another six months or so, and you would probably have died." This exam saved this man's life and added years of good health to his journey. Jesus knew the key to living an abundant Christian life was the heart. One of the Beatitudes--which someone has called 'the Beautiful Attitudes'--is, "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God." This simple sentence has the ability to impact in a positive way the totality of the human experience. In our spiritual journey, if our heart is sick ...

224. Time For A New Vision

Acts 1:1-11

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Angela Akers

... , 1967, p. 123. 5. A. Dudley Dennison M.D., Shock it to Me Doctor! (Grand Rapids, MI:Zondervan Publishing House, 1970), p. 96. 6.Gilda and Phil Feldman. Acronym Soup (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1994), p. 61. 7. John MacArthur. The Beatitudes: The Only Way to Happiness (Chicago:Moody Press, 1998), p. 208. 8. From: this-is-true-admin@lyris.net. THIS is TRUE for 11 March 2001. Copyright 2001 by Randy Cassingham 9. Gilda and Phil Feldman. Acronym Soup (New York: William Morrow and Company ...

225. Christ's Promise To His Saints

John 11:17-37

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King Duncan

... came to call Christianity "The Religion of the Dawn." It was the sunrise of hope for humanity, for all who live in darkness. (4) That's a good image for us to hold on to as we leave here today--"The Religion of the Dawn." In the Beatitudes, Jesus put it like this, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness ...

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