Teaching | Who is Actually Blessed? | Gospel of Matthew
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Most people think of the Beatitudes as virtues, but what if that's not at all what Jesus was saying? John Mark looks at some of the ancient context around Jesus's opening of the Sermon on the Mount and argues that Jesus is not telling us virtues to aim for, but offering blessing to the downtrodden of the world in the midst of their pain.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 5v1-10
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teachings Podcast by practicing the way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was originally given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon |
| 0:10.0 | as a part of the Gospel of Matthew Series. |
| 0:13.0 | Matthew's series. |
| 0:20.0 | Matthew, chapter five. So So last week the legendary Dr. Tim |
| 0:27.1 | Mackey was here. How good was that? It was really great. If you missed it, |
| 0:32.3 | please go back and listen to the podcast, |
| 0:34.7 | not just because Tim is fantastic, |
| 0:37.6 | but because that was a really important teaching |
| 0:40.5 | in our series through the Gospel of Matthew. |
| 0:43.0 | Tim did a fantastic job with an overview of all that Jesus had to say about the kingdom of God, |
| 0:49.0 | which is the central theme not only of Matthew, but of all four Gospels, |
| 0:52.0 | and it was really the setup for the next section. of Matthew, but of all four Gospels. |
| 0:52.6 | And it was really the setup for the next section |
| 0:55.3 | in the Gospel of Matthew that goes by the name |
| 0:58.6 | The Sermon on the Mount, or what I prefer to call |
| 1:01.1 | Jesus Manifesto for a whole new way to be human in the in-breaking reality of the kingdom of God. |
| 1:06.0 | That's a bit of a mouthful. |
| 1:08.0 | So we'll stick with the sermon on the mount, and now we are ready to actually kick that off. |
| 1:15.0 | Let's start off in Matthew chapter 5 verse 1. |
| 1:19.0 | I really believe that God has something for us tonight. |
| 1:22.0 | So Father, we just ask you to have your way and God has something for us tonight. |
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