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Mt 5:1-12

Gentleness and Appetite• Happy are the poor in spirit

because belonging to them is the Kingdom of Heaven.

• Happy are those who are mourning because they will be comforted

• Happy are the gentle because they will inherit the earth.

• Happy are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness because they will be filled.

• Rulership

• Resolution

• Rulership

• Resolution

#5: V7: MERCY

7 μακάριοι οἱ ἐλεήμονες,ὅτι αὐτοὶ ἐλεηθήσονται.

Happy are the merciful because they will be mercied.

Grace Orientation1. The word “merciful” is ejlehvmwn, which means,

“pertaining to being concerned about people in their need, merciful, sympathetic, compassionate…”

2. This compassion is a characteristic of God throughout the Bible.

3. There is no greater way man shows God’s character than in being gracious to others.

4. Rulership in the Kingdom will be by our God who is Gracious and merciful; therefore Grace and Mercy are paramount character qualities for the co-ruler.

5. The theme of being held accountable for our treatment of others on the basis of Grace runs throughout the Word of God. Ex 34:1-9, Mt 7:1-2, Mt 18:21-35

#6: V8: PURITY

8 μακάριοι οἱ καθαροὶ τῇ καρδίᾳ,ὅτι αὐτοὶ τὸν θεὸν ὄψονται.

Happy are the clean of heart because they will see God.

Clean of Heart

1. Fellowship with God is a matter of righteousness.

2. In every case a man loses fellowship with God because of unrighteousness.

3. This major theme of Bible Doctrine is intensified in the Church Age because we have the Holy Spirit indwelling us to fill, lead, teach, encourage, bear witness, etc.

4. The key to entrance into the Kingdom is the cleansing of the Cross positionally. The key to inheritance of the Kingdom is a consistent experience of that righteousness in thought, word, and deed.

Mercy and Purity

• Rulership

• Resolution

• Happy are the merciful because they will be mercied.

• Happy are the clean of heart because they will see God.

#7: v9: PEACEMAKERS

9 μακάριοι οἱ εἰρηνοποιοί,ὅτι αὐτοὶ υἱοὶ θεοῦ κληθήσονται.

Happy are those who make peace because they will be called sons of God.

Making Peace

1. Here is the second most misunderstood of the beatitudes.

2. A “Meek” person is not a doormat, and a “peacemaker” does not surrender to unrighteousness.

3. The interpretation of v9 depends upon the phrase “sons of God.”

4. The son is the representation of his father.

5. In what sense is God a peacemaker?

6. God is not for “peace at any price” or without “preconditions.” Prov 3:34, 1 Pet 5:5, James 4:6.

7. He is LORD of the Armies, YHWH Sabaoth.8. Peace means wholeness or integrity and

therefore the resolution of conflict.9. The great conflict in the history of creation

is the sin of the creature in opposition to the righteousness of God.

10.God does not leave this conflict to sit on the sidelines, and He does not “lay down” His weapons for “peace.”

11.He goes to war against sin and sacrifices everything to win peace.

12.The war of creature arrogance against Creator righteousness was won at the Cross.

How Can I Make Peace?1. God uses people in His work of peacemaking.2. Our role is not to be the sacrifice for sins but to

communicate Jesus’ sacrifice—sometimes by our example.

3. When a human being accepts the Gospel, he is immediately reconciled to God and so at peace.

4. Therefore we have a role in bringing peace to history’s greatest conflict—evangelism.

5. Nothing you can say in life will bring more strife and persecution to you than the Gospel of peace that Jesus is the ONLY WAY.

6. The message of the King’s ambassador is called the Gospel of Peace: Eph 6:15, cp Is 52:7, Nah 1:15, Rom 10:15

Dynamics of Peacemaking

Is 52:7-107How lovely on the mountains are the feet of him who

brings good news, Who causes others to hear peace Who brings good news of happiness, Who causes others to hear salvationWho says to Zion, “Your God reigns!” 8Voices your watchmen lift upVoices together they are constantly ringing out; For they will see with their own eyes When the Lord restores Zion.      

9Break forth, ring out in shouting together, You waste places of Jerusalem; For the Lord has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem. 10The Lord has bared His holy arm In the sight of all the nations, That all the ends of the earth may see The salvation of our God.

#8: v10: PERSECUTED

10 μακάριοι οἱ δεδιωγμένοι ἕνεκεν δικαιοσύνης,

ὅτι αὐτῶν ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.

Happy are those who have been persecuted on account of righteousness because belonging to them is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Happiness in Adversity1. The first certainty about new life in Christ is that

He will sustain you in His faithfulness. 2. The second certainty is that as you grow in

righteousness and serve Him you will suffer for it at the world’s hands.

3. The third certainty is that if you disobey you will be disciplined as a child of God.

4. Therefore we cannot assess spirituality based on someone’s suffering.

5. But you know when you are submissive to your Father and desiring His glory.

6. And if you will not look at yourself through the light of Scripture, He will let you know when you are rebelling against Him in prideful self-advancement.

Peace and Persecution

Happy are the merciful because they will be mercied.

Happy are the clean of heart because they will see God.

Happy are those who make peace because they will be called sons of God.

Happy are those who have been persecuted on account of righteousness because belonging to them is the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Resolution of Rulership• Happy are the poor in spirit

because belonging to them is the Kingdom of Heaven.

• Happy are those who are mourning because they will be comforted

• Happy are the gentle because they will inherit the earth.

• Happy are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness because they will be filled.

• Happy are the merciful because they will be mercied.

• Happy are the clean of heart because they will see God.

• Happy are those who make peace because they will be called sons of God.

• Happy are those who have been persecuted on account of righteousness because belonging to them is the Kingdom of Heaven.

#9: v11-12: YOU

11 μακάριοί ἐστε ὅταν ὀνειδίσωσιν ὑμᾶς καὶ διώξωσιν καὶ εἴπωσιν πᾶν πονηρὸν καθʼ ὑμῶν [ψευδόμενοι] ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ. 12 χαίρετε καὶ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε, ὅτι ὁ μισθὸς ὑμῶν πολὺς ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς· οὕτως γὰρ ἐδίωξαν τοὺς προφήτας τοὺς πρὸ ὑμῶν.

Happy are YOU when they should revile you and persecute and say all kinds of evil concerning you, being false, on behalf of me. Rejoice and leap for joy because your reward is great in heaven, for in this way they persecuted the prophets before you.

Altogether Now• Happy are the poor in spirit

because belonging to them is the Kingdom of Heaven.

• Happy are those who are mourning because they will be comforted

• Happy are the gentle because they will inherit the earth.

• Happy are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness because they will be filled.

• Happy are the merciful because they will be mercied.

• Happy are the clean of heart because they will see God.

• Happy are those who make peace because they will be called sons of God.

• Happy are those who have been persecuted on account of righteousness because belonging to them is the Kingdom of Heaven.Happy are YOU when they should revile you

and persecute and say all kinds of evil concerning you, being false, on behalf of me. Rejoice and leap for joy because your reward is great in heaven, for in this way they persecuted the prophets before you.