On the way out the door last time I used an inside baseball term and that is the beatitudes.

And it occurs to me that probably a lot of you were like, oh the beatitudes, yeah, those are like that

series of blessed our statements that open the sermon on the mountain in

Matthew chapter five and probably others of you were like the bea at a huh what

is that what's the thing now and it's okay if you don't know that language that is not a

Bible word it is an after the fact theology

Bible interpretation word that gets floated around in Christianity a lot and it does

refer just to exactly that. This series of almost metered Blessed Our statements,

Blessed are this, for they will be that, that open the sermon on the mount,

the first of five great big speeches from Jesus that formed the skeleton for the gospel of Matthew

These blessed are and for they will or whatever statements that serve the purpose on the front end of this kingdom

manifesto from Jesus of immediately challenging all of our values of

demanding that we change currency if we're persuaded by this kingdom and we want to be a part of it.

So yesterday we looked at one of the more difficult to interpret that being the blessed or the

porn spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Passage.

Seems like almost a thesis statement for this whole thing,

that adopting this posture of humility before the king,

understanding that everything about the kingdom is his agenda,

he's in charge, but it's okay because he's

benevolent he's good and he's just and is merciful and his kingdom is going to be

awesome so we can just take our hands off the wheel we can that sound like a country

music song that wasn't what I was referencing.

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