Blessed Are - Week 2

Blessed Are..

Week 2

Matthew 4:17 

“From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

“The motive that underlies the precepts of the Sermon on the Mount is love of God”  -Oswald Chambers

The people who spiritually have nothing with no way to change it. 

“Am I a pauper toward God? Do I know that I cannot prevail in prayer, I cannot blot out the sins of the past, I cannot alter my disposition, I cannot lift myself nearer to God? Then I amHoly Spirit. People cannot receive the Holy Spirit until they are convinced of their own spiritual poverty.”  -Oswald Chambers

Matthew 5:3

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

What does mourning mean in this text?

Contrition- the state of feeling remorseful and penitent.

Psalm 51:4

“Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.”

Romans 7:21-24

21 “So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?”

The 4 types of sinners

Prideful Sinner- Its sin and in response I choose to flaunt it. 

Indifferent Sinner- Its sin and in response I do nothing. 

Ignorant Sinner- Its sin and I do not/did not know it.

Repentant Sinner- Its sin and I am broken over it to the point of repentance. 

2 Corinthians 7:10

“For the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation. There’s no regret for that kind of sorrow. But worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death.”

In response to current sin practice in your life, what is your posture toward God?

Psalm 103:12

“As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.”

How do you know you have arrived to a contrite mournful state over your sin?