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| Summary: The blessings that introduce the Sermon on the Mount affirm the actions and attitudes that Jesus believes best characterize God’s people. |
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| Summary: God’s blessing comes in a way of living based on the sure hope that mourning is not the final word, that mercy is a godly quality, that a hunger for righteousness points us in the right direction, that the kingdom of God is wide open to those who know they need it, and that God’s future will be a time of mercy, peace and fullness. |
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| Summary: Jesus’ pursuit of happiness is revolutionary, and we ought seriously to give it a chance in our daily lives. |
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| Summary: It is only as we live “in Christ” that we overcome disunity and quarrelsomeness with others. Focusing upon God will prevent us from being self-righteous, petty and small-minded. |
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| Summary: The Beatitudes represent Jesus’ work of grace before the demands of discipleship in the rest of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus’ blessings sound strange to us because they bless the very people we think of as down and out. Jesus’ blessings offer a future joy, but also a present encouragement. |
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| Summary: Jesus doesn’t want us to be happy because we’ve counted our blessings. He wants us to know we are blessed, and to live that blessing. |
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| Summary: In some ways the Beatitudes have become so familiar to many Christians that they miss how counter-cultural they are. One way to see them in fresh ways is to read them in unfamiliar translations that can help uncover at least some of how Jesus’ first hearers might have received them.
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| Summary: Jesus spoke the words of life to a crowd, but how many paid attention? You might get an idea from the painting “The Sermon on the Mount” by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1598). It’s easy to be distracted by the world, our neighbors and our stomachs, but if so, we’ll miss out on much more than we imagine.
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