April 22, 2025 • 34 mins
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Blessed is the man
who walketh not in the council of the ungodly
Nor standeth in the way of sinners
nor sitteth
inceited the scornful,
but his delight is on the law of the LORD
and on his law
doth he meditate.
Day
and night
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he shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water
that bring forth his fruit in his season
his leaf also
shall not weather
whatsoever he doeth
shall prosper.
Welcome
to the Bread of the Word Podcast,
a podcast striving to feast on god's Word
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and let the Bible speak to us all
let us, as a former generation said
go add fontaise
to the fountain
and be nourished and sustained by all that God is
let's dig in together
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hello and welcome back to the Bread of the Word podcast.
Rigo adfantes to the fountain to the Word of God
to be nourished and sustained by all the God is
as he's revealed himself to us.
My name is Tyler,
and this episode will be the official Bread of the Word
Easter production
if you will.
Easter also happens to Mark the
5 year anniversary of doing Bread of the Word.
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I've been doing this for 5 years now as of today
Easter is always the the carrier Verdes the next year
with my calendar,
so he's risen.
He's risen indeed as you've probably heard a time or' 2
already,
so we are going into Sermon on the Mount today
normally we be in Joe,
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but we are. We've been taking
last week and this week to give some time to
the new humanity to
this
new view of humanity that Christ has called us into
as his
church as his children
the First Corinthians 517 says that if anyone is
in Christ, he is a new creation, a new creature,
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if you read the King James Version,
what is that new creation? What is so new
about what Christ has accomplished for us what does he
beckon us to? That is the question today
and with that we actually are directing our eyes to
the beginning
of Christ ministry to address that question.
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So Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapter 5,
picking up in verse one
says, And seeing the multitudes,
he went up into a mountain
and when he was set his disciples came up unto him
and He opened His mouth and taught them
saying, Blessed are the poor and spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted,
and blessed are the meek,
for they shall inherit the earth
blessed are they
which do hunger and thirst after righteousness
for they shall be filled
blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy
blessed are the pure and heart for they shall see God,
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blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called the children of God,
blessed are they
which are persecuted for righteousness sake
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
blessed are ye
when men shall reval you and persecute you
and shall say all men are of evil against you falsely
for my sake.
So this is a series of statements that
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oftentimes we call Beatitudes
and there's a
I'm not entirely sure where the word itself comes from
but
essentially what they are
there be attitudes.
They're attitudes that' we are called to adopt
as people who are in Christ.
These are things that are not natural to
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us, but these are things that God delights
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and these are the kinds of people that God blesses.
And so he says blessed are the poor and spirit
blessed are the meek, which is to say the gentle,
blessed are the peacekeepers,
blessed or sorry peacemakers,
blessed are
they which hunger and thirst after righteousness
this there is a progression in this list,
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but right off the bat with the very first one is
blessed are the poor
in spirit,
blessed are the spiritually bankrupt
right off the bat, he says you are blessed
we realize that you have nothing.
You are blessed when you see
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that you have no independence.
When you recognize your need for God,
it says to people like that theirs is the kingdom
of Heaven.
That is the promise
that
the Kingdom of heaven belongs to those who are poor
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in spirit if we are to
enter the Kingdom of heaven
as we're told in John.
III. That accept ye be born again
ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven
we're also told here
that the Kingdom
of Heaven is to those who are poor in spirit
to those who are spiritually bankrupt
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who recognize who have come to the end of theirselves
and realize that they lack something.
And so blessed are the poor and spirit
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted,
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blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after
righteousness,
for they shall be filled
all of these points to something that we don't have
that we are poor in spirit.
We are in mourning,
we are meek or gentle. We are
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hungering and thirsting after righteousness
why? Because these are things we don't have
there is a blessing from God
in recognizing that which we do not possess.
If we go over to
to paul's letters to Corinth,
second Corinthians, chapter 12,
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verse 7,
he says, and, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Through the abundance of these revelations
there was given to me a thorn in the flesh,
the messenger of Satan to buffet me
lest I should be exalted above measure
for this thing I besought the Lord thrice
3 times that it should depart from me
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and he said unto me, My Grace is sufficient for thee
for my strength is made perfect
in weakness
so. Paul has weakness.
Paul has shortcomings
and what exactly he's referring to
is debated by people far smarter than I,
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but the point of state of saying this
was not to give attention to what the thing
was necessarily,
but to say I have weakness,
and I have asked God to rid me of this weakness
and God said no
because there is something about Himself
that I learn through having weakness.
This is my strength
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speaking of God. His strength is made perfect in my
weakness
and he says most gladly, therefore well, I rather glory
in my infirmities
that the power of Christ may rest upon me
and in the King James Version
we have to see the word glory used as a verb
because essentially
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what it means in the original languages is to shine
is to direct a light source
and so we often see that use as a verb
in the King James
because that is what we're talking about is
we are giving attention
we are giving focus
to something,
and so he says I glory in the midst of my infirmities
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so that the power of Christ may rest upon me
why? Because the poor and spirit
are the heirs of the kingdom of heaven
those that are in mourning,
those that are hungering and thirsting after
righteousness,
those that recognize what they do not have
and are going to God for that thing
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they are the type of people that God says.
Is blessed. These are the people that God bless
and we might even
go so far as and say that these are signs that you are
blessed,
that these are the blessings
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you are blessed when you are meek
for they shall inherit the
blessed are they
which do hunger and thirst after righteousness
why? Because they shall be filled
and where are we filled
in God?
God feels that God feeds us. That is
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that is the promise of Luke 9
with the feeding in the multitude,
which if you're gonna be in Newton you're gonna hear
hear about that at the 2025 Laborers Conference
on the feeding of the multitude and many other things
as we work together through
what it means to take up your cross
daily and follow after Christ,
but Luke 9
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He feeds them in a way that echoes back not only to
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the Promised Land and the wilderness,
and Moses and the Israelites
wandering through the desert
but it also hearkens back to Eden
when they doubted the goodness of God
in the Garden.
And yet the example that
Christ gives of meeting those needs
shows us
2 things. It shows us that Jesus was
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in fact God and could cause that to happen
but b
it shows that He had a heart full of compassion for us
that He fed people, not just because He was God,
but Jesus fed people
because He loved people
because He was filled with compassion that
is a common phrase throughout the Book of Mark
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that He was taken with compassion for them
and so
we will be filled. We will be fed
by God, not just through God, but by God,
and from there
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this list transitions
from
that inward,
blessed are the poor in spirit to something more
outward. Blessed are. The merciful
for they shall obtain mercy,
blessed are the pure in heart
for they shall see God,
blessed are the peacemakers,
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for they shall be called the children
of God.
So you are blessed when you show mercy
because you have received mercy.
Psalm 136 says give thanks
to God. Why?
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For his mercy endureth forever
give thanks unto the Lord for he is good
his mercy endureth forever.
That is a constant phrase
throughout the psalm
it repeats, it's almost like a sea shanty
every other line,
oh give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good
for his mercy endureth forever
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oh give thanks unto the God of gods
for his mercy endureth forever
o give thanks to the Lord of Lords for his mercy
endureth forever
to him alone who doeth great wonders
for his mercy endureth forever
to him that by wisdom made the heavens
for his mercy endureth forever
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and to him that stretched out the earth
above the waters for his mercy endureth forever
and if you were to read that in Hebrew
which I can't do,
you would find that the word endureth is not there
tamefully, literally it says His mercy forever
we put some version of endure in our translations
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to make it flow better,
but His mercy is forever
and so blessed are
the merciful,
for they have obtained mercy.
They shall obtain mercy and have obtained mercy
god has made us to be merciful people
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through
what Christ accomplished on the cross
that will. We believe this message
that Jesus Christ
put on human flesh dwelt among us lived
33 perfect years
and went to the place of sinners intentionally
and his body was nailed to a cross and put in a tomb
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but he was risen from the dead
by the power of the Holy Spirit
when we believe that message
and all that that entails
that he has suffered in our place
for sins that we could never be,
we could never atone for.
This is what we become
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is this. This. Is where we are going
if we truly wholeheartedly believe
that Jesus Christ is God,
that he dwelt among us, that he
suffered for our sake and was risen from the dead
if we believe that this will become true of us
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maybe not instantly, maybe not overnight
firstly, I am still trying to be this
but these are things that come from God.
These are indications
of Christ within you.
Let's go to Romans 8.
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Romans chapter 8
says there is therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus
who walk not after
the flesh, but after the Spirit,
for the law of the Spirit of life
in Christ Jesus, hath made me free
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from the law of sin and death
for what the law could not do
in that it was weak through the flesh,
god sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh
and for sin condemned sin
in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law
might be fulfilled in
us
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who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit
for they that are after the flesh
do mind the things of the flesh
but they that are after the spirit.
The things of the spirit
for to be currently minded is death
but to be spiritually minded is in life
and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity towards God.
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It does not subject to the law of God.
Neither, indeed can be
so. Then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
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That is our natural state is we are
in such a state of rebellion to God that we cannot
please God. That is our starting point
but ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit
if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you,
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and if Christ be in you,
the body is dead because of sin but the spirit is life
because of righteousness,
but the spirit of him that raised up Jesus
from the dead
dwells in you
he that raised up Christ from the dead
shall also quicken your moral bodies by his Spirit
that dwelleth in you.
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The very same spirit that rose Jesus Christ
from the dead.
That rose that body out of the tomb
lives in us, and makes us,
these things that makes us to be poor in spirit
makes us meek
Makes us to hunger and thirst after righteousness
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it makes us merciful
the Holy Spirit enables this to be true of us
and by the power of God we have become
new
and are continuing to be made new
go back to First Corinthians.
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Go to Second Corinthians. Chapter 5
says the love of Christ constraineth us,
because we thus judge that if one died for all
then
were all dead,
and that he died for all
that they which live
should not henceforth live unto themselves
but unto him which died for them
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and rose again
wherefore henceforth
know we that no man after the flesh
though we have known Christ after the flesh
yet now know we him no more
therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
All the things
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have passed away
behold, all things are become, new
and all things are of God,
who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ,
and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation
to which that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world unto himself
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not imputing their trespasses unto them
and have committed unto us the word of reconciliation
now that. We are ambassadors for Christ
as though God did beseech you by us
we pray that you in Christ dead be reconciled to God,
for he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin
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that we might be made the righteousness of God in him
this is what the Beatitudes are
this is the righteousness of God
being realized in our lives
1stelonius chapter 4th is this is the will of God,
your sanctification,
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that we would become more like Christ,
that we would begin to embody
part of what is good about Jesus. Not that we become God,
but that we love what He loves and hate
what he hates
this is what he's beckoned us into
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is a new way of seeing the world
a new way of seeing ourselves
and a new way of seeing God,
because blessed are the poor in spirit
that we have to start
knowing that we are weak and He is strong
That we are nothing and He is everything
that is our beginning point.
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From that
there are
practical things that He begins to work in our
lives that don't stay in here
but come out
one is being merciful because we have received mercy
he also says blessed are the pure in heart
for they shall see God
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in the Old Testament.
They were told that no
one could look upon his face and live
that they could not see God.
Moses wanted to see God. He did long to see God.
He said, show, me thy face
and God took him and put him in the cleft of the rock
and he passed over
and
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the text actually says that
Moses caught a glimpse of his backward parts
so to speak
what does that mean?
We're not entirely sure what that means?
How that actually
works in practice,
but there wasn't a direct.
I have seen god,
but we're told' here that' the pure and heart
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will see God.
In the Book of Revelation.
We are told that the sun will no longer be needed
because the
glory of the Lord will shine upon the earth
this is where we are going
is that the pured heart shall see God,
that what has been veiled from us
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will no longer be veiled from us.
Psalm chapter 24
deals with a similar illustration
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sound 24
immediately after
Psalm 23 that many of us know extremely well
but Psalm 24
says the earth is the lords and the fullness thereof
the world and they that dwell therein
for he hath founded it upon the seas and
established it upon the floods.
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So we start with a picture, the greatness of God,
the magnanimity
of his creation,
that the earth is the lord's and everything in it
and He has made it
entirely
verse 3 who shall ascend
into the hill of the LORD
who shall stand in his holy place.
This is about the temple
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a temple. That has likely not been built
because this is a Psalm of David.
So he is looking forward
to a temple that has not yet come to be.
David wanted to build a temple
to build a house for the Ark of the Covenant,
and God told him, no
it is not for you.
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And so much of the Psalms.
Are David longing to be in the house of God, to be
in this thing
in so verse 3,
who shall ascend unto the hill of the LORD
who shall stand in his holy place,
who shall be in his presence? He says
the answer, He that hath clean hands and a pure heart
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who hath not lift up his soul unto vanity,
nor sworn deceitfully.
That is not inherently true about any of us
that can only be true about Jesus,
who put on flesh, dwelt among us and lived a perfect
sinless life
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and yet that has been granted to us by his death
that he became sin
which just saw then second Corinthians that He made him
who knew not sin
to be sin,
that we might
be his righteousness,
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that we might become the righteousness of God.
So this becomes true of us because God has granted it
to us as believers.
We have clean hands and a pure heart
we have not lifted up our soul unto vanity
nor sworn deceitfully in the eyes of God,
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because we are reckoned this way
by the mercy. Of Christ.
And what does David say of this kind of person
who has a pure heart
he shall receive the blessing from the LORD
and righteousness
from the God of his salvation
this is the generation of them to seek him
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and that seek thy face.
So the pure and heart
shall see god shall receive the
fullness of what the Old Testament
many times long to see
what Moses long to see what David long to see
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will be ours. One day
we catch glimpses of that today
but one day we shall see him
with unveiled eyes
we will see him as he is
we will worship him in his natural environment
in a place where sin does not exist
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we will ascend the hill of the Lord
and we will stand in his most holy place
because blessed are the pure in heart
verse 9, blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called the children
of God
again. This comes back to mercy
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comes back to what we saw with being merciful
that we have also
become people that make peace
that peace is something that we
are wired for.
We want quiet lives, we want quiet cities, we want quiet
we want rest
in it were told that the blessed people of God
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seek out to make peace,
for they shall be called the children of God,
and these last 2 are a little different
blessed are they
which are persecuted for righteousness sake
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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blessed are ye
when men shall revile you
and persecute you and
shall say all manner of evil against you falsely
for my sake
that these last 2
indicate that we're going to suffer,
the things will not always be
happy Sunshine,
but that there will be persecution, there will be
insult, there will be
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suffering,
and yet these people are also the people that God bless.
We go to. We go to. James
James chapter one
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my brother, and count it all joy
when ye fall into diverse temptations knowing this
that the trying of your faith worketh patience,
but let patience have her perfect work
that ye may be perfect and entire
wanting nothing that is lacking, nothing
if any of you lack wisdom,
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let him ask of God
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that giveth to all men liberally and uprateth not
and it shall be given,
but let him ask in faith
nothing wavering
for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea
driven with the wind and tossed
we're told that counted all joy
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by James. We're told that Paul counted all joy
countless times in the New Testament.
How many of these letters did he write
from prison or while being persecuted in the? Midst
of all of this
he was shipwrecked he was snake bitten
and all this he said it was worth it
why
that Christ would be magnified
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that He weighed the sufferings He weighed the
persecutions in light
of who
Christ was
we look at Acts chapter 4,
verse 13.
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Now when they
the authorities saw the boldness of Peter and John
and perceived
they were unlearned and ignorant men,
it's always a good selling point
that they were unlearned and ignorant men.
They marveled and they took knowledge of them
in that they had been with Jesus.
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This is in the presence of scribes and elders
and priests
that do not believe
in this.
They did not
support this idea that Jesus was God,
that he was the Messiah and that the disciples
had his we're speaking on his authority'
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they didn't
and yet
were told in the Scriptures in the very words of God
that they even noted
that Peter and John had been with Jesus
blessed are the pure and heart
for they shall see God.
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Blessed are they which are
persecuted for righteousness sake
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
just like the way this list begins
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
these are the people that God blesses,
these are the people
that God calls us to be,
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these are the people that Christ,
the Holy Spirit and the Father
are molding us to be
day by day moment by moment Decision by decision
this is where we are going
is to be poor in spirit
to be people who mourn
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with hope
To be, people who are meek,
to be people who hunger and thirst after
righteousness To be people who are merciful,
To be people who are pure and hard
To be people who make peace
and to be people who will
face persecution,
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counting it all joy
for christ's sake
this is the new humanity this
is part of what Christ died to accomplish
that we would be made new
for if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature.
Old things have passed away and behold, the new has come.
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Blessed is the man
who walketh not in the council of the ungodly
Nor standeth in the way of sinners
nor sitteth
inceited the scornful,
but his delight is on the law of the LORD
and on his law
doth he meditate.
Day
and night
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he shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water
that bring forth his fruit in his season
his leaf also
shall not weather
whatsoever he doeth
shall prosper.
Welcome
to the Bread of the Word Podcast,
a podcast striving to feast on god's Word
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and let the Bible speak to us all
let us, as a former generation said
go add fontaise
to the fountain
and be nourished and sustained by all that God is
let's dig in together
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hello and welcome back to the Bread of the Word podcast.
Rigo adfantes to the fountain to the Word of God
to be nourished and sustained by all the God is
as he's revealed himself to us.
My name is Tyler,
and this episode will be the official Bread of the Word
Easter production
if you will.
Easter also happens to Mark the
5 year anniversary of doing Bread of the Word.
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I've been doing this for 5 years now as of today
Easter is always the the carrier Verdes the next year
with my calendar,
so he's risen.
He's risen indeed as you've probably heard a time or' 2
already,
so we are going into Sermon on the Mount today
normally we be in Joe,
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but we are. We've been taking
last week and this week to give some time to
the new humanity to
this
new view of humanity that Christ has called us into
as his
church as his children
the First Corinthians 517 says that if anyone is
in Christ, he is a new creation, a new creature,
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if you read the King James Version,
what is that new creation? What is so new
about what Christ has accomplished for us what does he
beckon us to? That is the question today
and with that we actually are directing our eyes to
the beginning
of Christ ministry to address that question.
(04:36):
So Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapter 5,
picking up in verse one
says, And seeing the multitudes,
he went up into a mountain
and when he was set his disciples came up unto him
and He opened His mouth and taught them
saying, Blessed are the poor and spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted,
and blessed are the meek,
for they shall inherit the earth
blessed are they
which do hunger and thirst after righteousness
for they shall be filled
blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy
blessed are the pure and heart for they shall see God,
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blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called the children of God,
blessed are they
which are persecuted for righteousness sake
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
blessed are ye
when men shall reval you and persecute you
and shall say all men are of evil against you falsely
for my sake.
So this is a series of statements that
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oftentimes we call Beatitudes
and there's a
I'm not entirely sure where the word itself comes from
but
essentially what they are
there be attitudes.
They're attitudes that' we are called to adopt
as people who are in Christ.
These are things that are not natural to
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us, but these are things that God delights
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and these are the kinds of people that God blesses.
And so he says blessed are the poor and spirit
blessed are the meek, which is to say the gentle,
blessed are the peacekeepers,
blessed or sorry peacemakers,
blessed are
they which hunger and thirst after righteousness
this there is a progression in this list,
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but right off the bat with the very first one is
blessed are the poor
in spirit,
blessed are the spiritually bankrupt
right off the bat, he says you are blessed
we realize that you have nothing.
You are blessed when you see
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that you have no independence.
When you recognize your need for God,
it says to people like that theirs is the kingdom
of Heaven.
That is the promise
that
the Kingdom of heaven belongs to those who are poor
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in spirit if we are to
enter the Kingdom of heaven
as we're told in John.
III. That accept ye be born again
ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven
we're also told here
that the Kingdom
of Heaven is to those who are poor in spirit
to those who are spiritually bankrupt
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who recognize who have come to the end of theirselves
and realize that they lack something.
And so blessed are the poor and spirit
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted,
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blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after
righteousness,
for they shall be filled
all of these points to something that we don't have
that we are poor in spirit.
We are in mourning,
we are meek or gentle. We are
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hungering and thirsting after righteousness
why? Because these are things we don't have
there is a blessing from God
in recognizing that which we do not possess.
If we go over to
to paul's letters to Corinth,
second Corinthians, chapter 12,
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verse 7,
he says, and, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Through the abundance of these revelations
there was given to me a thorn in the flesh,
the messenger of Satan to buffet me
lest I should be exalted above measure
for this thing I besought the Lord thrice
3 times that it should depart from me
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and he said unto me, My Grace is sufficient for thee
for my strength is made perfect
in weakness
so. Paul has weakness.
Paul has shortcomings
and what exactly he's referring to
is debated by people far smarter than I,
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but the point of state of saying this
was not to give attention to what the thing
was necessarily,
but to say I have weakness,
and I have asked God to rid me of this weakness
and God said no
because there is something about Himself
that I learn through having weakness.
This is my strength
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speaking of God. His strength is made perfect in my
weakness
and he says most gladly, therefore well, I rather glory
in my infirmities
that the power of Christ may rest upon me
and in the King James Version
we have to see the word glory used as a verb
because essentially
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what it means in the original languages is to shine
is to direct a light source
and so we often see that use as a verb
in the King James
because that is what we're talking about is
we are giving attention
we are giving focus
to something,
and so he says I glory in the midst of my infirmities
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so that the power of Christ may rest upon me
why? Because the poor and spirit
are the heirs of the kingdom of heaven
those that are in mourning,
those that are hungering and thirsting after
righteousness,
those that recognize what they do not have
and are going to God for that thing
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they are the type of people that God says.
Is blessed. These are the people that God bless
and we might even
go so far as and say that these are signs that you are
blessed,
that these are the blessings
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you are blessed when you are meek
for they shall inherit the
blessed are they
which do hunger and thirst after righteousness
why? Because they shall be filled
and where are we filled
in God?
God feels that God feeds us. That is
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that is the promise of Luke 9
with the feeding in the multitude,
which if you're gonna be in Newton you're gonna hear
hear about that at the 2025 Laborers Conference
on the feeding of the multitude and many other things
as we work together through
what it means to take up your cross
daily and follow after Christ,
but Luke 9
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He feeds them in a way that echoes back not only to
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the Promised Land and the wilderness,
and Moses and the Israelites
wandering through the desert
but it also hearkens back to Eden
when they doubted the goodness of God
in the Garden.
And yet the example that
Christ gives of meeting those needs
shows us
2 things. It shows us that Jesus was
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in fact God and could cause that to happen
but b
it shows that He had a heart full of compassion for us
that He fed people, not just because He was God,
but Jesus fed people
because He loved people
because He was filled with compassion that
is a common phrase throughout the Book of Mark
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that He was taken with compassion for them
and so
we will be filled. We will be fed
by God, not just through God, but by God,
and from there
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this list transitions
from
that inward,
blessed are the poor in spirit to something more
outward. Blessed are. The merciful
for they shall obtain mercy,
blessed are the pure in heart
for they shall see God,
blessed are the peacemakers,
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for they shall be called the children
of God.
So you are blessed when you show mercy
because you have received mercy.
Psalm 136 says give thanks
to God. Why?
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For his mercy endureth forever
give thanks unto the Lord for he is good
his mercy endureth forever.
That is a constant phrase
throughout the psalm
it repeats, it's almost like a sea shanty
every other line,
oh give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good
for his mercy endureth forever
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oh give thanks unto the God of gods
for his mercy endureth forever
o give thanks to the Lord of Lords for his mercy
endureth forever
to him alone who doeth great wonders
for his mercy endureth forever
to him that by wisdom made the heavens
for his mercy endureth forever
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and to him that stretched out the earth
above the waters for his mercy endureth forever
and if you were to read that in Hebrew
which I can't do,
you would find that the word endureth is not there
tamefully, literally it says His mercy forever
we put some version of endure in our translations
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to make it flow better,
but His mercy is forever
and so blessed are
the merciful,
for they have obtained mercy.
They shall obtain mercy and have obtained mercy
god has made us to be merciful people
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through
what Christ accomplished on the cross
that will. We believe this message
that Jesus Christ
put on human flesh dwelt among us lived
33 perfect years
and went to the place of sinners intentionally
and his body was nailed to a cross and put in a tomb
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but he was risen from the dead
by the power of the Holy Spirit
when we believe that message
and all that that entails
that he has suffered in our place
for sins that we could never be,
we could never atone for.
This is what we become
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is this. This. Is where we are going
if we truly wholeheartedly believe
that Jesus Christ is God,
that he dwelt among us, that he
suffered for our sake and was risen from the dead
if we believe that this will become true of us
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maybe not instantly, maybe not overnight
firstly, I am still trying to be this
but these are things that come from God.
These are indications
of Christ within you.
Let's go to Romans 8.
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Romans chapter 8
says there is therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus
who walk not after
the flesh, but after the Spirit,
for the law of the Spirit of life
in Christ Jesus, hath made me free
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from the law of sin and death
for what the law could not do
in that it was weak through the flesh,
god sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh
and for sin condemned sin
in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law
might be fulfilled in
us
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who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit
for they that are after the flesh
do mind the things of the flesh
but they that are after the spirit.
The things of the spirit
for to be currently minded is death
but to be spiritually minded is in life
and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity towards God.
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It does not subject to the law of God.
Neither, indeed can be
so. Then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
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That is our natural state is we are
in such a state of rebellion to God that we cannot
please God. That is our starting point
but ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit
if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you,
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and if Christ be in you,
the body is dead because of sin but the spirit is life
because of righteousness,
but the spirit of him that raised up Jesus
from the dead
dwells in you
he that raised up Christ from the dead
shall also quicken your moral bodies by his Spirit
that dwelleth in you.
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The very same spirit that rose Jesus Christ
from the dead.
That rose that body out of the tomb
lives in us, and makes us,
these things that makes us to be poor in spirit
makes us meek
Makes us to hunger and thirst after righteousness
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it makes us merciful
the Holy Spirit enables this to be true of us
and by the power of God we have become
new
and are continuing to be made new
go back to First Corinthians.
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Go to Second Corinthians. Chapter 5
says the love of Christ constraineth us,
because we thus judge that if one died for all
then
were all dead,
and that he died for all
that they which live
should not henceforth live unto themselves
but unto him which died for them
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and rose again
wherefore henceforth
know we that no man after the flesh
though we have known Christ after the flesh
yet now know we him no more
therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
All the things
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have passed away
behold, all things are become, new
and all things are of God,
who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ,
and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation
to which that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world unto himself
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not imputing their trespasses unto them
and have committed unto us the word of reconciliation
now that. We are ambassadors for Christ
as though God did beseech you by us
we pray that you in Christ dead be reconciled to God,
for he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin
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that we might be made the righteousness of God in him
this is what the Beatitudes are
this is the righteousness of God
being realized in our lives
1stelonius chapter 4th is this is the will of God,
your sanctification,
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that we would become more like Christ,
that we would begin to embody
part of what is good about Jesus. Not that we become God,
but that we love what He loves and hate
what he hates
this is what he's beckoned us into
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is a new way of seeing the world
a new way of seeing ourselves
and a new way of seeing God,
because blessed are the poor in spirit
that we have to start
knowing that we are weak and He is strong
That we are nothing and He is everything
that is our beginning point.
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From that
there are
practical things that He begins to work in our
lives that don't stay in here
but come out
one is being merciful because we have received mercy
he also says blessed are the pure in heart
for they shall see God
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in the Old Testament.
They were told that no
one could look upon his face and live
that they could not see God.
Moses wanted to see God. He did long to see God.
He said, show, me thy face
and God took him and put him in the cleft of the rock
and he passed over
and
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the text actually says that
Moses caught a glimpse of his backward parts
so to speak
what does that mean?
We're not entirely sure what that means?
How that actually
works in practice,
but there wasn't a direct.
I have seen god,
but we're told' here that' the pure and heart
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will see God.
In the Book of Revelation.
We are told that the sun will no longer be needed
because the
glory of the Lord will shine upon the earth
this is where we are going
is that the pured heart shall see God,
that what has been veiled from us
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will no longer be veiled from us.
Psalm chapter 24
deals with a similar illustration
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sound 24
immediately after
Psalm 23 that many of us know extremely well
but Psalm 24
says the earth is the lords and the fullness thereof
the world and they that dwell therein
for he hath founded it upon the seas and
established it upon the floods.
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So we start with a picture, the greatness of God,
the magnanimity
of his creation,
that the earth is the lord's and everything in it
and He has made it
entirely
verse 3 who shall ascend
into the hill of the LORD
who shall stand in his holy place.
This is about the temple
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a temple. That has likely not been built
because this is a Psalm of David.
So he is looking forward
to a temple that has not yet come to be.
David wanted to build a temple
to build a house for the Ark of the Covenant,
and God told him, no
it is not for you.
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And so much of the Psalms.
Are David longing to be in the house of God, to be
in this thing
in so verse 3,
who shall ascend unto the hill of the LORD
who shall stand in his holy place,
who shall be in his presence? He says
the answer, He that hath clean hands and a pure heart
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who hath not lift up his soul unto vanity,
nor sworn deceitfully.
That is not inherently true about any of us
that can only be true about Jesus,
who put on flesh, dwelt among us and lived a perfect
sinless life
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and yet that has been granted to us by his death
that he became sin
which just saw then second Corinthians that He made him
who knew not sin
to be sin,
that we might
be his righteousness,
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that we might become the righteousness of God.
So this becomes true of us because God has granted it
to us as believers.
We have clean hands and a pure heart
we have not lifted up our soul unto vanity
nor sworn deceitfully in the eyes of God,
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because we are reckoned this way
by the mercy. Of Christ.
And what does David say of this kind of person
who has a pure heart
he shall receive the blessing from the LORD
and righteousness
from the God of his salvation
this is the generation of them to seek him
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and that seek thy face.
So the pure and heart
shall see god shall receive the
fullness of what the Old Testament
many times long to see
what Moses long to see what David long to see
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will be ours. One day
we catch glimpses of that today
but one day we shall see him
with unveiled eyes
we will see him as he is
we will worship him in his natural environment
in a place where sin does not exist
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we will ascend the hill of the Lord
and we will stand in his most holy place
because blessed are the pure in heart
verse 9, blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called the children
of God
again. This comes back to mercy
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comes back to what we saw with being merciful
that we have also
become people that make peace
that peace is something that we
are wired for.
We want quiet lives, we want quiet cities, we want quiet
we want rest
in it were told that the blessed people of God
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seek out to make peace,
for they shall be called the children of God,
and these last 2 are a little different
blessed are they
which are persecuted for righteousness sake
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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blessed are ye
when men shall revile you
and persecute you and
shall say all manner of evil against you falsely
for my sake
that these last 2
indicate that we're going to suffer,
the things will not always be
happy Sunshine,
but that there will be persecution, there will be
insult, there will be
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suffering,
and yet these people are also the people that God bless.
We go to. We go to. James
James chapter one
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my brother, and count it all joy
when ye fall into diverse temptations knowing this
that the trying of your faith worketh patience,
but let patience have her perfect work
that ye may be perfect and entire
wanting nothing that is lacking, nothing
if any of you lack wisdom,
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let him ask of God
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that giveth to all men liberally and uprateth not
and it shall be given,
but let him ask in faith
nothing wavering
for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea
driven with the wind and tossed
we're told that counted all joy
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by James. We're told that Paul counted all joy
countless times in the New Testament.
How many of these letters did he write
from prison or while being persecuted in the? Midst
of all of this
he was shipwrecked he was snake bitten
and all this he said it was worth it
why
that Christ would be magnified
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that He weighed the sufferings He weighed the
persecutions in light
of who
Christ was
we look at Acts chapter 4,
verse 13.
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Now when they
the authorities saw the boldness of Peter and John
and perceived
they were unlearned and ignorant men,
it's always a good selling point
that they were unlearned and ignorant men.
They marveled and they took knowledge of them
in that they had been with Jesus.
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This is in the presence of scribes and elders
and priests
that do not believe
in this.
They did not
support this idea that Jesus was God,
that he was the Messiah and that the disciples
had his we're speaking on his authority'
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they didn't
and yet
were told in the Scriptures in the very words of God
that they even noted
that Peter and John had been with Jesus
blessed are the pure and heart
for they shall see God.
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Blessed are they which are
persecuted for righteousness sake
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
just like the way this list begins
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
these are the people that God blesses,
these are the people
that God calls us to be,
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these are the people that Christ,
the Holy Spirit and the Father
are molding us to be
day by day moment by moment Decision by decision
this is where we are going
is to be poor in spirit
to be people who mourn
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with hope
To be, people who are meek,
to be people who hunger and thirst after
righteousness To be people who are merciful,
To be people who are pure and hard
To be people who make peace
and to be people who will
face persecution,
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counting it all joy
for christ's sake
this is the new humanity this
is part of what Christ died to accomplish
that we would be made new
for if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature.
Old things have passed away and behold, the new has come.
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