Beatitudes Into your life<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2500\u25008 modes of entering a happy new life<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scripture: Matt 5:1-12<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Target of the Sermon on the Mount: Many people and disciples<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Jesus saw these many people<\/strong><\/em>, he went up the mountain. After sitting down, his disciples<\/em><\/strong> came to him (Matthew 5:1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Values \u200b\u200bin the world: abundance, happiness, strength, compromise, self-preservation, flexibility, strife, strength<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Happiness is poverty in the spirit(v3)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Beatitudes in Chapter 5 of Matthew is a parallel verse with Luke 6:20, where it says: Blessed are the poor<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a rather discordant picture in this passage: poverty and heaven<\/p>\n\n\n\n All the enjoyment in the world must have money and power<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Happiness is grief and heartache(v4)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Those who mourn are those who have no hope<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ex: Ruth, Naomi<\/p>\n\n\n\n When they come to God, they can be comforted, and only from God\u2019s comfort can they gain strength<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Happiness is meekness and humbleness(v5)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n From the perspective of modern people, gentle people are unlikely to get land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Usually there are three ways to get land:<\/p>\n\n\n\n (1) Force, this is the ancient times, the one who can get the land is the victor<\/p>\n\n\n\n (2) Fraud, obtaining land by deception<\/p>\n\n\n\n (3) Financial resources, this is the way of modern people<\/p>\n\n\n\n (4) Luck, inherit the land<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gentle people, some Chinese translations are “gentle and humble” people<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ex: Isaac, in the Bible, he is less likely to fight. He often gives it to others. He is very gentle, but God blesses him<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Happiness is compassion for others(v7)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Why pity others?<\/p>\n\n\n\n (1)Do it on the Lord(Matthew 25:40)<\/p>\n\n\n\n (2) Do it on yourself(Matthew 7:12 )<\/p>\n\n\n\n (3) Respond to God’s love(Matthew 18:23)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Happiness is to be focused(v8)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The human heart is very complicated, often not so simple<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. Happiness is to make people harmonious(v9)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. Happiness is persecution for righteousness(v10-12)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beatitudes Into your life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcchc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcchc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcchc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcchc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcchc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tcchc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/tcchc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tcchc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcchc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tcchc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}