190206 ps peter lui upside down inside out
- 400 silent
- 4 main sects
- pharisee
- sadduces
- zealots
- essenes
- righteousness of e pharisee
- codified 248 commandments n 365 prohibitions
- mt 5:20
- declamation of e pharisee
- mt 23:27-28
- exposed of superficiality of righteous
- didn’t kill innocent man - no murder
- wasn’t caught in act of adultery - no adultery
- revenged by an eye 4 an eye - justified action
- handed shirt when sued - paid debt in full
- walk e mandatory mile - fufillment e extra mile
- comparison between then n now
- pharisee reduced rigour of god law preacher today alter norm
1) gospel of crazy - god loving n merciful so wont condemned to hell
2) gospel of wealth - name it, claimed it, get it
3) gospel of wellness
- jc vs e world
- world welcome hero. He applaud e zerd
- world revel in sin. He demand purity of heart
- world shun hardships. He invite to us to endure
- not popular w elite
- mt 12:14,21:43-46, 26:4
- the beatitudes
- mt 5:3-13
- best known, least understand , least obey
- jc present beatitudes nt as a menu to pick prefer
- imperative tense- command to develop all eight
- never let god voice drown
- jc personal sermon are for e christian
what blessed is nt
- ppl look at blessed subjectively
- happy is nt blessed
- happiness is subject n depend on feelin n circumstances
- solomon , despite wealth n success
Despaired ecc 2:1
Meaning of blessing
-Blessin is something only god cn give
· - when we follow e beatitudes , a thunder clap frm heaven approve
· - ps 114:15
-blessin is independent of circumstances
-blessin is a continuous contemporary experience
· as we on earth, we need exhibited it
-blessin is related to a person spiritual
perspective of poverty of spirit
- poverty nt to be seem a virtue
· - proper biblical concept of spirit inner man or heart
· - attitude of poor spirit, wholly dependent on god
· - posture of poor in spirit, admission of inexusable sinfulness in me dwell no gd thing (ro 7:18)
Biblical example of bein poor in spirit
- two men went to
jerusalem temple
-pharisee declared lk 18:11-12
- tax collector pleaded (lk 18:18)
· i am e sinner nt a sinner
- e tax collector is justified by god
Evidence of bein poor in spirit
- know he spiritual bankruptcy
- doesn’t make a show of nothing in public but full of self within
- doesnt quietly acknowledged condition of nothing during sermon n pretentiously display fullness during altar call
- care only hw god think
biblical commendation of broken heart
- ps 34:18
- is 57:15
Challenge of reward
- jc assure full measures of blessin for theirs is e kingdom of heaven
- theirs - emphatic personal pronoun to e poor in spirit n to them alone
kingdom promise n given
- frm hell-bound to heavenward
- frm nothing to fullness
- frm brokeness to wholeness
- as king
· we have crowns
· We have Robes
