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You’re Blessed When You Get Your Inside World… Put Right

“You’re blessed when you get 
your inside world
—your mind and heart—put right.
Then you can see God 
in the outside world.”

Matthew 5:8 
THE MESSAGE (MSG)

Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.

Matthew 5:8 
NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV)

PURE- Greek: Katharos (clean, clear, pure)

HEART – Greek: Kardia (heart and mind)

But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these 
defile them. For out of the heart come 
evil thoughts—murder, adultery, 
sexual immorality, theft, 
false testimony, slander.

Matthew 15:18-19 (NIV)

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, 
or his male or female servant, 
his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs 
to your neighbor.”

Exodus 20:17 (NIV)

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 
All the Law and the Prophets hang on 
these two commandments.”

Matthew 22:37-40 (NIV)

 

You’re content with just who you are—no more, no less.

And seeing the multitudes, he (Jesus) went up into a mountain:  and when he was set, 
his disciples came unto him: 
and he opened his mouth, 
and taught them…

Matthew 5:1
KING JAMES VERSION (KVJ)

You’re blessed when you’re at the 
end of your rope. With less of you there 
is more of God and his rule.

Matthew 5:3
 THE MESSAGE (MSG)

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

Matthew 5:3
 NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV)

You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost 
what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.

Matthew 5:4 
THE MESSAGE (MSG)

Blessed are those who mourn, 
for they shall be comforted.

Matthew 5:4
 NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV)

You’re blessed when you’re content with just who you are—no more, no less. That’s the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can’t be bought.

Matthew 5:5
THE MESSAGE (MSG)

Blessed are the meek, 
for they will inherit the earth.

Matthew 5:5
NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV)

Now Moses was a very 
humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face
of the earth.

Numbers 12:3 (NIV)

Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; 
he took the humble position of a slave 
and was born as a human being. 
When he appeared in human form, 
he humbled himself in obedience to God 
and died a criminal’s death on a cross. Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, 
to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:7-11 
NEW LIVING TRANSLATION (NLT)

“Meekness toward God is that disposition of spirit in which we accept His dealings with us as good, and therefore without disputing or resisting.”

“Gentleness or meekness is the opposite to 
self-assertiveness and self-interest. It stems from trust in God’s goodness and control over 
the situation. The gentle person is not occupied with self at all. This is a work of the Holy Spirit, 
not of the human will.”

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You’re blessed when you’re content with just who you are—no more, no less. That’s the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can’t be bought.

MATTHEW 5:5 (MSG)

In what ways is God calling you to a life of greater meekness and gentleness? of greater contentment?

Being humble before God

Being humble before others

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make
your paths straight.

Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)

Meekness before God 
Is a Path to Blessedness

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

Philippians 2:3-4 (NIV)

“God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, he is creating a people among whom he can live and who in their life together will reproduce God’s life and character.”

-p. 66 Paul, The Spirit, and the People of God-

Meekness before God and others 
Is a Path to Blessedness

You’re Blessed when You Feel You’ve Lost What is Most Dear to You

Beatitudes – MATTHEW 5-7 –
Beatitude means bless or blessing

“You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear
to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most
dear to you.”

Matthew 5:4 The Message (MSG)

“You’re blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.”

Matthew 5:3
 (MSG)

Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.

Matthew 5:4
 New International Version (NIV)

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all 
our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.  For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort
and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.
And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

2 Corinthians 1:3-7 (NIV)

How is God going to use you 
to be an extension 
of the Good News 
of Jesus Christ?

 

 

You’re Blessed when You’re at the End of Your Rope

ASH WEDNESDAY

Yet even now, says the Lord,
return to me with all your hearts,
with fasting, with weeping, and with sorrow;
tear your hearts and not your clothing.
Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, very patient, full of faithful love,
and ready to forgive.

JOEL 2: 12-13
COMMON ENGLISH BIBLE (CEB)

“You’re blessed when you’re 
at the end of your rope. 
With less of you there is more 
of God and his rule.”

Matthew 5:3
THE MESSAGE (MSG)

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

Matthew 5:3 
NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV)

ptochōs – a person who has been reduced to begging, someone destitute of all resources,
no farm, no family.

penēs – a person who has little wealth,
yet has sufficiency and is not called
‘poor’ in the same sense as the ptochōs

ebiōn- poor of varying degrees

SPIRIT: GREEK – pneuma // HEBREW – ruach

LENT – FORTY-DAY SEASON OF SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR EASTER

 

The World or The Word

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he 
created them. God blessed them and said to them, 
“Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves 
on the ground.” Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so. God saw all that he had made, 
and it was very good. And there was evening, 
and there was morning—the sixth day.

Genesis 1:27-31 NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV)

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions 
and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler
of the kingdom of the air, 
the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

Ephesians 2:1-2 (NIV)

It wasn’t so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live.

Ephesians 2:1-2 The Message (MSG)

Show me your ways, LORD, teach me your paths.

Psalm 25:4 (NIV)

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

Philippians 2:3-4 (NIV)

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, 
in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, 
at all the times you can, to all the people you can, 
as long as ever you can.

John Wesley

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 
And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, 
you will abound in every good work.

2 Corinthians 9:6-8 (NIV)

…may we never compromise what matters most for greater convenience to us.

Jennifer Rothschild, 
Take Courage: A Study of Haggai, pg. 50.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?”

Matthew 16:24-26 (NIV)

Titles or Testimonies

Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 10:39 New International Version (NIV)

Is your life going to be about
WHO YOU ARE
or about WHOSE YOU ARE?

Thermometer or Thermostat

Thermometer: Passive

Thermostat: Proactive

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Go everywhere and share the Good News 
[of Jesus Christ] to all creation.

Mark 16:15

Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, 
for by so doing some people have shown 
hospitality to angels without knowing it.

Hebrews 13:2 NIV

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 
so that the servant of God may be thoroughly 
equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, 
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 
Then you will be able to test and approve what 
God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12:2 (NIV)

Praise the Lord.
Praise God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty heavens.
Praise him for his acts of power;
praise him for his surpassing greatness.
Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,
praise him with the harp and lyre,
praise him with timbrel and dancing,
praise him with the strings and pipe,
praise him with the clash of cymbals,
praise him with resounding cymbals.
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord.

Psalm 150:6 English Standard Version (ESV)

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, 
the new creation has come: 
The old has gone, the new is here!

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)

Tipping — Tithing

Tip: a sum of money given to certain service sector workers for the service performed

Tithe: a Biblical principle – 10% of the fruits of one’s labor

You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me [God]. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. 
Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room 
enough to store it.

Malachi 3: 9-10 New International Version (NIV)

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, 
you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—
mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy 
and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. You blind guides! 
You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

Matthew 23:23-24 (NIV)

Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. And Abel also brought 
an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and 
his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face 
was downcast.

Genesis 4:2b-5 (NIV)

As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. 
All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; 
but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”

Luke 21:1-4 (NIV)

To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable:“Two men went up to the temple to pray, 
one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 
The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, 
went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Luke 18:9-14 (NIV)

Are you going to be a tipper or a tither?

Curing the Lepers

Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”

Luke 17:11-13 New International Version (NIV)

When he [Jesus] saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed.

Luke 17:14 (NIV)

One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan.
Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?” Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”

Luke 17:15-19 (NIV)

Casting out Demons

They [Jesus and the Disciples] sailed to the region of the Gerasenes, which is across the lake from Galilee. When Jesus stepped ashore, he was met by a demon-possessed man from the town. For a long time this man had not worn clothes or lived in a house, but had lived in the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell at his feet, shouting at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torture me!” For Jesus had commanded the impure spirit to come out of the man.

Luke 8:26-29a New International Version (NIV)

Many times it [the impure spirit] had seized him, and though he was chained hand and foot and kept under guard, he had broken his chains and had been driven by the demon into solitary places.
Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”
“Legion,” he replied, because many demons had gone into him.

Luke 8:29b-30 (NIV)

And they begged Jesus repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss.
A large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. The demons begged Jesus to let them go into the pigs, and he gave them permission. When the demons came out of the man, they went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

Luke 8:31-33 (NIV)

When those tending the pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and reported this in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. Those who had seen it told the people how the demon-possessed man had been cured. Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, because they were overcome with fear. So he got into the boat and left.

Luke 8:34-37 (NIV)

The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, “Return home and tell how much God has done for you.” So the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus had done for him.

Luke 8:38-39 (NIV)

I’m left speechless, as He [Jesus] stops everything for one. One little forgotten, inconsequential, person. And yet we find that he [that person] is far from unimportant.

He [Jesus] doesn’t call Legion in the Bible to come to Him, Jesus goes and looks for him. How amazing is that? This one man, living among the tombs was so important to Him, Jesus went and found Legion. He goes out of His way to seek him out. 
“God Seeks You—A Powerful Lesson from Legion in the Bible,”

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