Beatitudes: Blessings of the Kingdom Life
The beatitudes describe the good or blessed life because they expound the lifestyle of those who embrace Jesus Savior and Lord, Redeemer and Teacher. They describe the blessed life of taking Jesus in full rather than half measure. Over the next several weeks we will look at what the beatitudes show us about being an attractively different community.
Jesus’ Vision of the Good Life Is A Life Lived In An Attractively Different Community
Resources:
Matthew 5:1-16
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How can we have peace in our divided country, city, and lives? Jesus calls those who make peace blessed, for they shall be called sons of God.
Resources:
The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12, Thomas Watson
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Supremely happy are those who have an unmixed inner life because they will know God now and forever.
Resources:
The Sermon on the Mount: Kingdom Life in a Fallen World by Sinclair Ferguson
Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount And His Confrontation with the World by DA Carson
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount by Martin Lloyd-Jones
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In this sermon we explore what it means to be merciful, the actions that flow from a merciful heart, and the only motivation that can produce a disposition of mercy.
Resources:
Studies in The Sermon on the Mount by Martin Lloyd-Jones
The Sermon on the Mount by D.A. Carson
The Sermon on the Mount by Sinclair Ferguson
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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Resources:
Matthew 5:1-6
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As we continue looking at the good life through Jesus’ eyes, we come to another attractively different trait of the good life: Meekness. It not a cowering weakness or a brash self-assertiveness, but something altogether different, rooted in a true reckoning that God is God, and I am not.
Resources:
Matthew 5:1-5
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Blessed are Those Who Mourn
Resources:
The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12, Thomas Watson
The Beatitudes, sermons by Charles Spurgeon
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In the beatitudes, Jesus describes the supremely happy life enjoyed by all who embrace Him as king and enter His kingdom by grace. The first characteristic of those who live the truly good life: blessed are the poor in spirit.
Resources:
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount by Martin Lloyd-Jones
The Sermon on the Mount by Sinclair Ferguson
The Gospel According to Matthew by RT France
A Commentary on the Psalms by Alan P. Ross
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