Amen and amen. You may be seated wherever you are. Hey, if you got your Bibles, as you just heard,

we're going to be in Matthew chapter 5. We are in week five of this series, best sermon ever.

And before we dive into the scriptures, I want to just say a word to all of our high school graduates.

We have 89 students that are part of our student ministry that are graduating this year,

and we say we are very proud of you, and this will be...

Here's the thing.

I know it seems tragic that you don't get to do all the stuff.

We can't even remember what we did at graduation, okay?

But you will forever be known as the

corona class so that's kind of neat and so i hope and pray that you do not hop on the merry-go

round of normality but you run fast after jesus and you are sent by this church as a missionary

for the glory of god to fulfill the great commission, however God has designed for you to do that.

And so we would like to invite you to be a part of our online baccalaureate service Tuesday, May 19th at 7 p.m.

You can go to COE22.com slash students for that.

We love you guys like crazy.

Page 22 on your journal, Matthew chapter 5. students for that. We love you guys like crazy.

Page 22 on your journal, Matthew Chapter 5.

Like I said, we're in week five of this series. Let me recap just a little bit, just to catch us up.

Because again, we're doing 13 weeks, but when Jesus did this sermon, he did it all in one chunk.

It was just one sermon. I have no idea how long it lasted, but we've been looking at it piece by piece. And he kicked the whole thing off with the very famous section of scripture that are known as the beatitudes.

But as we started this series, we said that a lot of people misunderstand the beatitudes because oftentimes it's taught as eight separate circumstantial blessings.

Like if you're poor in spirit or if you're mourning or if you're meek, then God has a special

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