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Jan 06, 2019

Blessing in Bankruptcy

Passage: Matthew 5:1-3

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: Sermon on the Mount

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: blessing, inheritance, need, poor, rich

We are all under a “Kingship Delusion” as we try to reign over ourselves, others and our world. In the book of Matthew Jesus, our rightful, benevolent and sacrificial King, invites us out of our prisons and into His Realm. The Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7, essentially summarizes the hope that is found in His Kingdom, how to enter it and what it looks like to live together in it. To begin this ultimate sermon Jesus unveils 8 “Beatitudes” (outrageous blessings), the first of these being the blessing of knowing our spiritual bankruptcy, because until we understand the extent of our debt, we can’t understand the infinite inheritance he has procured on the cross on our behalf.

Order of Worship

PRELUDE: Bella - New Sight

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 1:1-3 ESV

READING: Ephesians 1:3-6 ESV

MUSIC:

  • In Christ Alone
  • Come All Ye Pining Hungry Poor
  • Lord I Need You
  • Lead On Oh King Eternal 
  • Band: Randy, Annette, Hannah, Adam and Reed

PRAYER: The Lord’s Prayer ESV

ALL: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil

For Thine is the Kingdom

and the power and the glory

forever and ever Amen.

GRATITUDE: Colossians 3:16-17

MISSIONAL LIVING: TBD

MESSAGE: Blessing in Bankruptcy

CENTRAL TEXT: Matthew 5:1-3

1 Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. 2 And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Illustration: Hoarding - It's A Wreck

CONFESSION & ASSURANCE:

Confession of Sin

LEADER: Almighty God, you love us, but we have not loved you.

You call, but we have not listened.

God of grace, help us to admit our sin,

so that as you come to us in mercy,

we may repent, turn to you, and receive forgiveness;

Through Jesus Christ our Redeemer.

Assurance of Pardon: Psalm 103:8, 9-12

ALL: 8  The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

10 He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. 11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; 12 as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

BENEDICTION: Colossians 1:11-13 ESV

MEDIA:

1.06.19 Album

DISCUSSIONS QUESTIONS:

Overview of Sermon on the Mount Series:

  1. How do you see yourself acting like a King or Queen?
    1. What are ways you treat others like your “subjects”?
  2. Remember John 19:19 “Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, ‘Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.’”
  3. How is Jesus the Inverse, yet infinitely superior, King?
  4. How then is His Kingdom also the Inverse of our kingdoms?

Matthew 5:1-3

  1. How do you normally define being “blessed”?
  2. How do we act/think like we are a higher spiritual class than them?
    1. Honestly...
  3. What do you think about your personal spiritual bank account?
  4. ...Without Jesus? (not the church answer!)
  5. ...With Jesus? (you have the righteousness of Christ!)
  6. ...What percentage of Jesus do you feel like you need?
  7. When we treat God like he “owes” us...what are we saying about our “bankruptcy” and his gift/inheritance?
  8. We can’t “do” “poor in spirit” -- so how do you get there?
  9. The “blessing” isn’t simply a gift we try to acquire (“do this and get that”) but a congratulations that we realized we were only pretending to be rich and are subsequently now, in Christ, showered with true richness and adopted into royalty.
  10. How is this type of rich royalty infinitely better?

QUOTES:

  • “The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.” - Oswald Chambers

  • As to ‘caring for’ the Sermon on the Mount, if ‘caring for’ here means ‘liking’ or enjoying, I suppose no one ‘cares for’ it. Who can like being knocked flat on his face by a sledgehammer? I can hardly imagine a more deadly spiritual condition than that of a man who can read that passage with tranquil pleasure.” - C.S. Lewis

  • “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” - Albert Pike

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