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Today's Reading: Matthew 5: 1-12
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Bible Study
Jesus says, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near."
Everything starts with this Good News Jesus proclaims. By our repentance, the turning back from our wrong route to follow Jesus in to the kingdom of heaven, we start a new life, a new life in Christ!
And, today we come to the beginning of the famous 'Sermon on the Mount', which runs through chapters 5 to 7, and sets out the main themes of Jesus' proclamation. It's all about one thing: How to live a life of heaven. Or, just one word, as what John Stott describes: Christlikeness.
This is Christlikeness! This is how we can live a life of Christlikeness! A life God blesses!
From verse 3 to verse 12 is always being called Beatitudes because the Latin word 'beatus' means 'blessed'. As N.T. Wright says:
The point is not to offer a list of what sort of people God normally blesses. The point is to announce God's new covenant. In Deuteronomy, the people came through the wilderness and arrived at the border of the promised land, and God gave them a solemn covenant. He listed the blessings and the curses that would come upon them if they were obedient or disobedient (chapter 28). Now Matthew has shown us Jesus, coming out of Egypt (2:15), through the water and the wilderness (chapters 3 and 4), and into the land of promise (4: 12-25). Here, now, is his new covenant.
N.T. Wright concludes this passage by saying:
The life of heaven - the life of the realm where God is already king - is to become the life of the world, transforming the present 'earth' into the place of beauty and delight that God always intended. And those who follow Jesus are to begin to live by this rule here and now.
How are you living this life of heaven daily when you are still have your life on earth? If you can live like that, then you will be more and more Christlike!
Have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"
Spiritual Journal
What I heard from Jesus today is: From Kingdom of heaven to life of heaven!
What I received from Jesus is a simple outcome of our true repentance. Jesus says, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near." If we truly repent, truly admit that we are poor in spirit and mourn for being so arrogant, so self-centered, so greed, so bitter, so jealous, so angry, so impure, so envy and so sinful, then through our confession and the cleansing of our sins by the blood of Christ we are in His Kingdom and be able to follow Jesus each day. And then what?By coming and living in the Kingdom of heaven we need to be transformed to live a life of heaven.
Wow, praise the Lord for this important message and reminder:
From Kingdom of heaven to life of heaven.
Are you in?
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to be transformed by you each day to live a life of heaven. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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