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I want to share something, that’s in my heart for a long time. And, something God is teaching and,

01:38:50:11 – 01:39:13:08
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In our churches, not only in our churches, but also, you know, and for, for our lives, and, you know, I want to read from Matthew chapter five from, from one onwards. Now, when Jesus saw the crowd, he went up on a mountainside and sat down his disciples came to him, and he began to teach them.

01:39:13:11 – 01:39:38:00
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He said, blessed are the poor in spirit, for their. This is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

01:39:38:03 – 01:40:03:05
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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are those who who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely flee all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven.

01:40:03:07 – 01:40:34:16
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For in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. Yeah. In in our Christian life, you know, what is expected is, you know, when we become a Christian, what is expected from us is we have to grow in our Christian life. Am I right? Yeah. And, you know, many, many times of us believers, we are happy when somebody is making a, sinner’s prayer.

01:40:34:18 – 01:41:00:12
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We pray for them. And, you know, then they accept the Lord Jesus and and, you know, and then we rejoice over them. But I believe, you know, we we we are satisfied that if they die today, they can go to heaven. So our job is done. But the thing is, if they die, it’s okay. If they are going to continue to live, they have to grow.

01:41:00:14 – 01:41:26:07
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Amen. It’s good. And, you know, and so when I was reading, the scripture, God was speaking to me, you know, the different steps of our Christian growth and the Beatitudes. We read what Jesus was teaching his disciples. You know, we were thinking, I was thinking for a long time that each beatitude belongs to someone else.

01:41:26:07 – 01:41:47:07
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Like, one is poor in spirit, one those who mourn and one are me. Can another people who are hunger and thirst for righteousness. But I believe in them. These are the qualities that each and every believer should have in our walk with the Lord.

01:41:47:10 – 01:42:11:27
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And the word blessed. It’s sometimes really confusing for me, you know, I’m not English speaking. I’m not coming from a English speaking country or, you know, that’s not my language. And, you know, people use the word blessed for different things and all of it. When we pray, we say, bless the missionary. They’re bless my family. And then we look at our food and they say, bless our food.

01:42:12:00 – 01:42:39:08
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And, you know, when somebody sneezes, we say, bless you. And I really don’t know what is real meaning of the word blessing. And, but this word blessed in Greek, it’s called Macarius, which means to be happy, not just a superficial happiness. When everything is going on well, I’m happy. It’s something very deep, you know, even the circumstances are not good.

01:42:39:08 – 01:43:14:08
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You still continue to be happy. That’s what this word Macarius means. And, here the first beatitude is blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. You know, in our in our Christian life, you know what is expected from us as a Christian? You won’t believe it’s very, very high or it’s too much sometimes, you know, and, as soon as we become a Christian and, you know, we thought, we think everything is going to be easy.

01:43:14:08 – 01:43:35:23
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But every time when, when we listen to the word of God, when we listen to messages and, you know, we can see the expectations are growing. You know, if you want to be a good Christian, you have to do this and that. And, you know, Jesus himself is telling. And, you know, the first primary commandment, love your God with all your heart, soul and mind.

01:43:35:23 – 01:43:58:00
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And it’s something very, it looks very simple. But when you really wanted to love the Lord, I think it’s difficult. And then he’s telling. Love your neighbor as yourself. You know, they don’t know who is my neighbor.

01:43:58:02 – 01:44:26:12
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So, you know, so loving our neighbor is another big task. And, you know, and and when you read the Bible, when you read the word of God, the commandments and everything, it’s it’s making us to think, well, I make it up. Am I able to, you know, fulfill all these things? And then Jesus in in the sermon on the Mount, in the same chapter, he’s telling, you know, the word says do not murder.

01:44:26:12 – 01:44:39:24
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But I say, if you are angry with your brother, you are already committed to murder. And how many murderers Harry having this morning?

01:44:39:27 – 01:45:07:21
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And he’s telling, you know, if you look at a woman lustfully or already committed adultery, and then the end of the chapter is telling, be perfect as the father in heaven is perfect. Yeah. You know, so the expectations are very high. And then I look at myself, my ability, it’s not that much. And it looks it’s so difficult.

01:45:07:24 – 01:45:35:05
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And what I understood from this first beatitude is it’s good that we have to understand it’s difficult. We have to understand the poverty we face. The expectations are too high. But I can’t do it with my own strength. That is where we have to begin our Christian life. Lord, I want to be a good Christian, but I can’t do it.

01:45:35:07 – 01:46:03:01
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I do not have the ability. I do not have the strength. And the word says, blessed are those who are poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of God. So if we realize the poverty in our spirit, we are in a right direction. We have already entered into the Kingdom of God. That’s right. And we have entered and, you know, and from then onwards that God is going to take care of everything.

01:46:03:03 – 01:46:21:23
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So when we realize of a poverty, what actually we are doing is we are exchanging of a poverty with the richness of the kingdom of God. And that is what Jesus is saying here. Blessed are those who.

01:46:21:25 – 01:46:51:17
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Who are poor in spirit. Paul in Romans 718 he says, I know that nothing good lives in me. That is in my flesh by natural self. Paul is telling nothing good lives in me. It looks Paul is a very bad person to say, man, imagine is selling. Nothing is good in me. Actually, what he’s trying to say is I want to illustrate, you know, just imagine you’re buying a very expensive, a beautiful new car, a message that’s Benz or something very beautiful.

01:46:51:19 – 01:47:19:09
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And it has all the features that it has leather seats and maybe a small mini bar. And, you know, all the all the stereo system and, all the, and the infotainment system and everything. Everything is that. But only one thing is missing. The engine is missing under the hood. Is it a good car? You know, and that’s what Paul is telling, you know, you know.

01:47:19:12 – 01:47:40:20
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The driving force to be a good Christian is missing in me. That is Jesus Christ. And that is what Paul is trying to say. You know, I know that nothing good lives in me.

01:47:40:23 – 01:47:47:13
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Later on, in Psalms.

01:47:47:15 – 01:48:25:15
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The psalmist is selling, Psalm 16 two, you are my Lord, and apart from you, I have no good thing. So, you know a spiritual life. The first thing we have to realize is, apart from God, we have nothing. And we have to understand our poverty in spirit. And, and so now the question comes, you know, you understand that your inability, your, you know, able to understand your inability to fulfill all, everything and what you are going to do now or you could just say, okay, I can’t do this.

01:48:25:22 – 01:48:49:07
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Leave me alone. Are you going to come to this conclusion? Are you going to say more about your situation? You know, feeling sad about your situation. And that’s what Jesus is telling in the next one. You know, blessed are those who mourn.

01:48:49:10 – 01:49:20:06
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So this morning, it’s, you know, the, the, the, the C of a polity. And then we start to mourn and we feel sad. And, you know, this shows, you know, a repented, repented spirit we have, you know, you know, so we understand our inability. And the next thing what we do is we mourn, mourn not only about what we are doing about our sin, but also who we are.

01:49:20:09 – 01:49:39:18
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We are sinners not because we are committing a sin. We are committing sin because we are sinners. That’s right. You know, so, I know the Bible is very clear. It says, you know, I saw this verse in, Genesis.

01:49:39:20 – 01:49:56:24
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821 after the flood, the Lord said, never again I will curse, but like, curse the ground because of man. Even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood.

01:49:56:26 – 01:50:24:03
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So when you read about all the verses about heart, it is not so good. You know, everything looks negative, about humankind. And God is telling, you know, this is after the flood. And the one one family that is living is Noah’s family. And now Jesus. God is telling, you know, the heart. Every inclination of this heart is evil from childhood.

01:50:24:05 – 01:50:52:02
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And Jeremiah 17 seven and see, the heart is disciple, disciple above all things, and desperately wicked who can understand it? You know, we do certain sin. We do come into some mistakes in our life because the condition of our heart is very pathetic. And when we say we are going to mourn, then we are going to repent.

01:50:52:02 – 01:51:21:01
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We are going to constantly being, mourning and repenting about the condition of our heart. So that is what you know. When you want to grow in your life, you see your pathetic condition and you constantly repent and be constantly more about your situation. And that’s what Jesus is telling. And he says, and and if you mourn, you will be comforted.

01:51:21:04 – 01:51:48:17
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When you understand your position, you will be comforted by the comforter, the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit comes and he takes charge of the situation. I believe the more we repent, the more we mourn. We are allowing more of the Holy Spirit in our life to transform us, to change us. You know the name Paraclete us. That’s the word that’s used here.

01:51:48:17 – 01:52:13:10
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You know about Holy Spirit and the same word is used by Jesus in John 14 and 15 and 16. It has a different meaning, like some sometimes it says comforter, sometimes counselor, sometimes an advocate who stands with us and will help us through. So as a as a believer, when we accept the Lord Jesus Christ, the first thing we understand is of a poverty.

01:52:13:13 – 01:52:37:11
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And then we are feeling bad about it. We are feeling sorry about it, we are grieving and we are mourning when about our situation. And we can see the Holy Spirit comes in and take charge of the situation, and he is leading us in the right way next. And that leads to the next beatitude. Blessed are those who are meek.

01:52:37:14 – 01:52:47:03
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That English translation of the word meek in the dictionary it says in a humble and submissive.

01:52:47:05 – 01:53:15:02
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Meek for me sometimes sounds like weak, but it’s not weak. It’s we are having a kind of submissive heart that means when we get saved, we experience Jesus as a Savior. But that’s not the end of our. That’s not the what is he? That is not enough. We want to see Jesus as our Lord over our life. So we are then go.

01:53:15:05 – 01:53:38:24
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And it says, blessed are those meek. That means to be humbly surrendering our life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. For you know, sometimes we are not telling it aloud or we are not discussing it, but in our mind it’s something is going on, you know, you know, I and there are two kinds of Christians we think that is one is an average Christian.

01:53:38:24 – 01:54:08:12
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Another one is a premium Christian. The average Christian does things. So I got saved, you know, that’s enough. And, you know, somehow I will do my own thing. And then one day I die, I’ll go to heaven. But, but these questions think, to Jesus to be your Lord. That is for premium Christians who are missionaries somewhere or who are apostles are pastors.

01:54:08:12 – 01:54:34:06
Unknown
Maybe they should have Jesus as their Lord, but I want to say today, you know, if you are saved, you have to commit your life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Jesus is not only a Savior, but he’s the Lord. You know, we like to have Jesus as a Savior. That’s very easy to Jesus to be our Savior.

01:54:34:06 – 01:54:43:08
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It cost him his life. But Jesus to be our Lord cost us our life.

01:54:43:10 – 01:54:45:26
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And you know.

01:54:45:28 – 01:54:51:00
Unknown
I just want to illustrate that, well, you know,

01:54:51:02 – 01:55:13:02
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My wife, she’s a very good cook. She cooks good food for us and our family. I like her cooking, especially the any she makes is really good. Delicious. Just imagine I bring, my wife here to the church, and I want to introduce her to you. And I say, this is Suzanne. She’s my cook. What will be the reaction from food, then?

01:55:13:02 – 01:55:38:26
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From everyone. Or else? Just imagine, on the day of my wedding, I come and I say, you know, I look at her and I say, I do take you as my personal cook. What will be her reaction and everyone’s reaction and said, okay, you know, on my wedding day, I say to her, I do take you as my wedded wife.

01:55:38:29 – 01:55:44:05
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So when you have a wife, you also have a cook.

01:55:44:08 – 01:55:53:22
Unknown
You know, so what I’m trying to say is Jesus came to this world as a Lord.

01:55:53:25 – 01:56:16:17
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And we have to accept him as Lord. And I want to read a verse,

01:56:16:20 – 01:56:42:21
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Romans 14, verse nine, it says, for this very reason, Christ died and returned to life, so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. And second Corinthians 515 Paul says, he died for all those who live, for those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them, and was raised again.

01:56:42:24 – 01:57:05:15
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And so, you know, so as believers, when as we are growing in the Lord, you know, we have to surrender our life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Jesus should be Lord in every area of our life, in our marriage life, in our work life, you know, in our free time, we should be the Lord. And that’s what Jesus is telling.

01:57:05:15 – 01:57:11:04
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You know, blessed are those who are meek. And as we are growing, you know.

01:57:11:06 – 01:57:14:02
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In the Lord.

01:57:14:04 – 01:57:59:26
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Committing our life to the Lordship of Jesus. It’s very, very important to read the word Savior comes in the Bible 24 times. Do you know how many times the word that describes Jesus as Lord comes 600 times? Then the word Savior describe Jesus as Savior. It’s so only 24 times, you know? So we have to understand the importance why Jesus came to this world and what is his primary thing he wants to do in our life is he wants to be rule and reign in our life and and as believers, when we want to grow in the Lord, we have to commit our life to His lordship.

01:57:59:28 – 01:58:07:13
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And then we go to the next thing. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.

01:58:07:16 – 01:58:32:28
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You know, we we see our poverty in our life, we moan about our situation and the Holy Spirit helps. And then we offer our lives to the Lord, lordship of Jesus Christ. And I think these three things are very vital when we do this. The symptoms that follow this, we will we will get an hunger. We will get an appetite for the righteousness of God in our life.

01:58:33:01 – 01:58:35:19
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You know.

01:58:35:22 – 01:58:57:10
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A good appetite shows our health. In India. When you go to a doctor, the most of the doctor, as you know, regardless what disease you have, they will ask whether you have good appetite or not. You know, it shows when you are, when you have good appetite, it shows that you are healthy and you know dead people will not have appetite.

01:58:57:13 – 01:59:20:16
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Do you agree you can make the best pizza and bring it to a dead person? He’s not going to sit, sit and eat because they do not have appetite. And when we are progressing in our life, you know, when we are growing, when we are maturing in the Lord, the first thing we can see is we have an appetite for righteousness of God.

01:59:20:19 – 01:59:56:26
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Why this righteousness is very important is is because, you know, when God created the righteousness, it’s nothing but the, moral character of God. When God created us, you know, he created it in this in his image. That means in a small character. But because of sin, we lost this righteousness. We we have fallen short and and so the first thing when we get saved is what God is trying to do is why God is saving us, is restore us to the position where we belong.

01:59:56:28 – 02:00:21:16
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We are supposed to be righteous. That is what is expected from us. And that’s why you know, it’s very, very important, you know, that we should have this hunger and thirst for the righteousness of God. I want to read a couple of verses home.

02:00:21:18 – 02:00:50:04
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Romans 116 and 17. It says, I’m not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes first for the Jews and then for the Gentiles. For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last. You know, Paul is writing the you know, the gospel righteousness of God is revealed.

02:00:50:06 – 02:01:26:15
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Then the the gospel is cleansing us. That’s good. That’s okay. You know, we have to be cleansed and all our junk should be cleaned. But that’s not the end. You know, the righteousness of God should be installed. It should come in our life. And that’s what Paul is trying to say. You know.

02:01:26:17 – 02:01:53:10
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You know, the whole, sermon on the Mount, when we read what it is trying to say is Jesus is trying to say in the whole sermon on the Mount what I found is, you know, it’s trying to make us recognize the failures or, you know, of a heart condition. And he wants to restore us. This is what the whole sermon on the Mount is trying to say.

02:01:53:10 – 02:02:17:12
Unknown
You know, when Jesus is telling, you know, the the Word of God says, do not murder. But I say, if you are angry with your brother, you already committed murder. What he’s trying to say is, you know, a murder is just the act. But, but but this act, what to say? You know, it’s a result of something we do.

02:02:17:20 – 02:02:43:14
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We murder the the main thing. What we find in our life is that our hearts are wicked. And that’s why, you know, so God is more concerned about the heart that than what we are doing. And and so he’s telling, you know, if you’re angry with your brother, you already committed murder. That means, you know, to to murder, you have to do a lot of work.

02:02:43:14 – 02:03:07:02
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You are to face the consequences. And also, you know, you have to take a knife and go behind the person and kill. And it’s it’s a lot of work, but Jesus is telling, you know, you’re going to commit that one day. You know, I’m not bothered about that. But if you’re hot, it’s not right. If the righteousness of God is not the, that is more important like that.

02:03:07:02 – 02:03:38:17
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Everything that we commit is secondary. But have a heart condition is very important. And, you know, so when we, when we, when we are growing in the Lord, what God does is, you know, he cleanses our heart. When we read Ezekiel chapter 36 seven, God is making the new covenant. This is what he says.

02:03:38:20 – 02:03:45:11
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Can you put the Ezekiel 36?

02:03:45:14 – 02:04:08:16
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The new covenant? He says, I will see. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove from you the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. He’s healing. I’m going to remove the wicked heart and I am going. God is going to give a heart of flesh. And then.

02:04:08:18 – 02:04:34:07
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And then he’s telling, you know, I will put my spirit in you and make you to follow my degrees. It’s God. He’s going to do everything with you. And, and and you know, the spirit. He’s going to give the Holy Spirit in us, and he is going to help us to fulfill the expectations that is from God. He wants us to be righteous.

02:04:34:09 – 02:05:06:00
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And, and and Jesus is telling, blessed are those who are hunger and thirst for righteousness, and they will be satisfied. That means God is going to do this thing. All we have to do is understand our situation, regret about it, and you know, and moan about it and commit our life to the Lordship of Jesus. And when we do this with the power of the Holy Spirit, God is the one who is going to make us righteous, and one day we will all be righteous.

02:05:06:02 – 02:05:30:02
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In Second Corinthians chapter three and the last verse, somewhere, Paul is telling, you know, we will be transformed from glory to glory, and that will all become like Jesus. So if you’re if your spouse is sitting next to you, maybe you can turn around and say, don’t lose hope. One day I’ll be okay. Okay.

02:05:30:05 – 02:05:32:18
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And.

02:05:32:20 – 02:05:38:21
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Till then, you have to tolerate.

02:05:38:23 – 02:05:47:15
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And then the next one. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

02:05:47:18 – 02:06:16:23
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You know, when we see the life of Jesus when he was on this earth, you know, we can see how merciful, how compassionate he was. You know, every time when he performs a miracle, the word comes. You know, he was so compassionate about the crowd. He was compassionate about this widow. And he then he performed a miracle. So, God, Jesus heart was very compassionate and, you know, and he was so merciful and merciful also means forgiving.

02:06:16:25 – 02:06:26:10
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You know, when we have this compassionate heart, it’s it will be easy for us to forgive those who sin against us.

02:06:26:12 – 02:06:53:11
Unknown
And, you know, so other heart should be treated with the the righteousness of God comes in our heart. You know, when we are transformed, then it will be easy for us to forgive. You know, in my life, one of the big challenges in my life is, you know, I don’t know. God is testing me, challenging me. I have to constantly forgiving people because people are betraying people are doing things against me.

02:06:53:11 – 02:07:16:07
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And, you know, and they know. Initially I was shocked. Then I understood this should be a lifestyle of a Christian. People will always not please you. They will do things that will hurt you. And as a believer, you know you have to constantly forgive them.

02:07:16:09 – 02:07:37:04
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And Jesus is willing, if blessed are those who are merciful, for they will receive mercy from God. You know how much mercy we, we expect from God. You know, we fail in our life so many times, and we are we are totally depend up on the mercy of God. Now, whenever we go before God, we are not going for justice.

02:07:37:04 – 02:08:08:08
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Lord, I did this and this. No, we can’t, you know, we can’t expect what to say. We if if God is not a God who’s doing unjust, but when we come to before God, we are not seeking justice from God. We are just seeking mercy from God. Mercy triumphs over justice, judgment. And, you know, and so when we, depend upon God’s mercy, that’s the same way we have to be showing mercy to others.

02:08:08:11 – 02:08:44:13
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We are not only receiving grace, mercy from father, a favor from God. We are also supposed to release mercy, grace and favor upon other people, especially those who are not happy with our life. You know, not happy with us and doing wrong things against us will betray us. And, and I can tell testimonies after testimonies how God is telling me in this area and, but you know, but one thing I learned, you know, it doesn’t matter what they do, am I.

02:08:44:17 – 02:09:12:21
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What is my heart’s condition? Am I compassionate towards them? Am I showing mercy towards them? Am I ready to forgive them constantly? So this is part of our growth in our spiritual life, you know. And you know, we repent and and and we, we allow Jesus to be our Lord. And then you know, we can see the righteousness of God, the seeking for it.

02:09:12:21 – 02:09:22:15
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And then, and then the next step is, we should be a champion. And forgiving people.

02:09:22:17 – 02:09:29:19
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Which is very hard, but it is the expectation of God.

02:09:29:21 – 02:09:39:17
Unknown
Look, 17 three it says, if your brother sins, rebuke him. And if he repents, forgive him.

02:09:39:19 – 02:10:11:07
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If he sits against you seven times in a day and seven times, come back to you and say, I, I repent. Forgive him. You know, he says if he repents, repent means the Greek word is Metanoia. It means change of mind. You know, if he’s ready to change himself, we have to forgive him.

02:10:11:10 – 02:10:21:00
Unknown
I want to go to the next one. Blessed are the pure in heart. For they will see God.

02:10:21:02 – 02:10:44:26
Unknown
There are many words, for pure, in the New Testament, the one of the word is Magnus, which means to be clean, to be holy, to be set apart. But that is not the word. It’s used here. Then the second word in the New Testament is in Greek is e I n k or I n s.

02:10:44:26 – 02:11:08:26
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I don’t know how to pronounce it Chronos, which means being genuine, being sincere, having integrity, being honest. That’s the was a word used in Philippians chapter one verse ten. Paul says that you may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, but the word that is used here, pure, blessed are those who are pure in heart, pure.

02:11:08:29 – 02:11:35:00
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The word that is used is called caterers. K t t h e or earth. That means which is not mixed, unmixed, or which is not diluted. You know, in India, to get a pure honey is very difficult. You know, they say pure honey, but they mix with some sugar sirup or something like that. And so that’s the word that is used to know unmixed.

02:11:35:02 – 02:12:02:23
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There’s no two different and get it and it just one ingredient. So Jesus is telling. Blessed are those who are pure in heart means we are. We are unmixed. We are the right word to express this. We are not hypocrites, yet behaving a certain way before certain people and behaving another way before another crowd.

02:12:02:25 – 02:12:29:23
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You know, sometimes, you know, back in India, we see Christians when they come to church, they will dress up very beautifully and they behave in a totally different way. But on the way home, it’s totally a different situation, a different story. And, you know, I, I had an atheist friend back in India and he says, David, Christians are the hypocrites.

02:12:29:25 – 02:12:51:19
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They are all hypocrites. And he always complains about the Christians. They are all hypocrites. And, and so whenever I was telling him the gospel and, you know, ask him in to accept the Lord, he says, David, I don’t I do not want to become one more hypocrite. This is his answer. I said, thank you. We have enough of them, you know.

02:12:51:22 – 02:13:23:18
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So what God is expecting from us is that no, we have to have a pure in heart, a genuine person. So this is one of the, qualities that is expected from a Christian as we are growing in the Lord, seeking for righteousness, being merciful, and having this pure heart.

02:13:23:20 – 02:13:38:08
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Matthew seven verse 15, it says, watch out for the false prophets. And then he describes them. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.

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You know these people, they dress like a sheep. They smell like a sheep. They sing Hallelujah like a sheep. But inside they are totally a different person.

02:13:51:15 – 02:14:14:21
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So as we are growing in the Lord, you know we have to when we see these kinds of, things in our life, when we are not able to forgive others, when we are not having pure heart, when we, you know, then what we have to do is, we have to see the pathetic condition, the, the poverty in our spirit.

02:14:14:29 – 02:14:49:21
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And we have to mourn and we have to grieve about our situation, and and we have to allow the Holy Spirit to come and deal with us. This is not like only one thing happening. It is a cycle. You know, every time, you know, we have to go back and look at our poverty in spirit. And every time we have to regret about the situation, that that is how that is where we are allowing the Holy Spirit to come in and, you know, deal with us.

02:14:49:23 – 02:15:21:22
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And allowing the Lord, allowing Jesus to be Lord over that area of our life. This should be a continuous process. And all this qualities we do not inherit from our father and mother. This is not the DNA of our parents. This is the DNA of God. Yes. And then we see the importance of it. And when we dedicate our life and, you know, when we moan about our situation, we inherit the DNA of God.

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We inherit the character of God in our life. And the next thing here it talks about the blessed are those.

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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.

02:15:41:20 – 02:16:08:06
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When the word peacemaker comes, we always think there is a conflict between two people to humans. And as a third person, you come and do something so that they will, the consi. But, this is, Jesus is not meaning here like that. You know, peace does not come from outside the inside. It should come from inside the outside.

02:16:08:08 – 02:16:46:02
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And what Jesus is trying to say here is if there is a conflict, the conflict is not between two human beings. The conflict is between the human being and God. We are living away from God. And, and so as a peacemaker, what we are coming and doing is we are bringing the gospel in the lives of people who are living away from God and bringing peace between God and human being to as we grow in the Lord.

02:16:46:04 – 02:17:22:09
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And this is something you know, we automatically do. Nobody is going to push us to go and evangelize or talk about Jesus to others. You know, as we grow in the Lord, this is a process and automatically we will be peacemakers. We will be evangelist. Jesus was the first one who did this in Romans chapter five verse one, it says, therefore being justified by faith, therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

02:17:22:10 – 02:17:42:22
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Jesus Christ came to this world as a peacemaker to bring peace between God and humankind. And in this verse it says, blessed are those who are peacemakers, for they will be the sons of God. And if we are the sons of God, we have to continue what Jesus.

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Is doing. Or, you know, you know, we should be peacemakers. We have to go and evangelize and, you know, talk about Jesus to others and, you know, you know, in this world, you know, we know there is no peace, but nobody can be bring peace into this world from outside to inside. How peace will come into this world, I believe, is people should seek God and they should be.

02:18:07:20 – 02:18:49:26
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They should restore their relationship with God and when they have peace with God, then the peace of God comes in their life and God transformed their life. And when people’s lives are transformed, then we can see peace in our society, in our community. That’s how peace comes and that’s good. So as sons of God are children of God, you know when when we are growing in the Lord, it’s so, so important that we have to understand, you know, our responsibility of bringing Jesus into the lives of people and, you know, and connecting God and people back again.

02:18:49:28 – 02:18:57:28
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So that’s what Jesus is telling here. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be.

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Sons of God, children of God.

02:19:13:01 – 02:19:22:00
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John 14 it says, peace I leave with you. My peace I give you, not as the world gives.

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Jesus, I give you my peace. Not like the world gives the peace. That word gives this from outside to inside, but the peace that Jesus gives us from inside to outside. The peace that Jesus is promising is, you know, the peace with God.

02:19:43:22 – 02:20:07:11
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And then we go to the the final one. Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven. For in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

02:20:07:14 – 02:20:13:05
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He says, blessed are those who are persecuted. You know.

02:20:13:07 – 02:20:33:07
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As we are growing in, the Lord, stopped by, said, God is doing something. And and at the end we were expecting God to reward us or appreciate this. But God is telling you will be persecuted. It doesn’t sound fair, but Jesus is very realistic.

02:20:33:10 – 02:20:56:25
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When you grow in the Lord, when you want to stand for the truth, when you want to be a peacemaker, you are bringing damage to the kingdom of darkness, and then certainly you will be persecuted. In Matthew chapter ten.

02:20:56:27 – 02:21:24:15
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Jesus is looking at his disciples and telling you to preach this message. The kingdom of heaven is near. Heal the sick. Raise the dead. Cleanse those of lepers, drive out demons. I think when he was telling these things are the the disciples would have been very happy. Oh, God is giving us a ministry. We can do it. And then verse 16, he says, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves.

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You know.

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You know this thing, you know, back in India, we are experiencing a lot, you know, we think, you know, we are doing we are bringing peace in the families and we are bringing Jesus into the life and everything. And immediately you can see oppositions, oppositions everywhere. People are so angry with us. And, you know, you may think, you know, I’m doing something good.

02:21:50:04 – 02:22:17:23
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Why people are hating me, why people are you know, that’s what that’s the reality in Christian life. Jesus himself, he said, you know, don’t think I have come here to bring peace, but I have come here to bring a sword. You know, I still remember, there was a lady who was working in our school. She was, she was, responsible for cleaning everything.

02:22:17:23 – 02:22:47:14
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And, you know, keeping the school clean and everything. And, she was working, and, she was a Hindu lady. And later on, she had a problem, and, she was sharing it with, my mother in law and Suzanne, and they were praying for her. And then, she accepted the Lord as a savior. And, what really happened is, then she started coming to the church, and, but she she was having a daughter and and a husband and a daughter were against this.

02:22:47:17 – 02:23:14:02
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They don’t want her to be, Christian because, back in India, you know, in Hinduism, they have different caste system. And if somebody becomes a Christian, they go to the bottom of the cost. And so she was finding the the family was finding difficult to find the right man for this girl. And this because her mother is going to the church, they are going to bottom of the caste system.

02:23:14:02 – 02:23:35:12
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And and because of that, and all her, you know, the boys were interested in marrying her. They were all, not ready to marry here. And there was a big conflict in the family. And, then they they understood that because she’s working in a Christian school, she became a Christian. So they stopped her from working in a schools.

02:23:35:15 – 02:23:57:25
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And then what happened? She was coming to the church, and they stopped her from coming to the church. And occasionally she comes in the evening service and she appears and disappears. She understood Jesus Christ. She loved southern loving. She was 100% convinced that Jesus was Christ. But because.

02:23:57:27 – 02:24:18:15
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She accepted Jesus Christ. She has to go through a lot of problems in our life. And one day we heard, they came and told that she committed suicide, but she did not commit suicide. She was killed by her own husband. And that daughter.

02:24:18:17 – 02:24:32:01
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You know, we think when Jesus comes in their life. Jesus. I think that’s why this is still in, you know, in in me. You have peace. But in this world you have trouble.

02:24:32:04 – 02:24:50:03
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He’s telling, you know, you accepted me. And there is peace between you and me that brings conflict. And that’s why you are going to face a lot of persecution, a lot of troubles in this world. And that’s why this is the telling. And I don’t think I have come here to bring peace, but I have come here to bring this war.

02:24:50:05 – 02:24:57:04
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I want to read the whole verse.

02:24:57:06 – 02:25:22:03
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I don’t think I have come to bring peace. I’ve come to bring a smile. I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother in law. A daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s enemies will be members of his own household.

02:25:22:05 – 02:25:52:05
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So in our walk with the Lord, in our, you know, getting matured in our, growth when you are growing in spirit, when we are growing in the Lord. We have to face persecution in our life. Persecution? Why? People are persecuting from their point of view. There may be many reasons. So maybe the the Bible says that, you know, the gospel is foolishness to them.

02:25:52:05 – 02:26:16:09
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For them, they are thinking they are foolish and they try to persecute us. But from our point of view, just last week, God was revealing this to me. You know, God, when we go through persecution, God is testing us whether we have past all the qualities that is expected from us.

02:26:16:11 – 02:26:31:22
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You know, last week I was sitting in my house and dining table and I was thinking about persecution. Suddenly, this thing God revealed to me, you know, when Jesus was on the cross by saying one sentence.

02:26:31:25 – 02:26:37:13
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He was able to fulfill all the beatitudes of.

02:26:37:16 – 02:26:49:24
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All the Beatitudes. If I say, you know what sentence by saying, Father God, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.

02:26:49:26 – 02:27:05:06
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By praying this, he was not poor in spirit, but he was able to identify the poverty in their life and he was mourning. That means he was interceding for them and.

02:27:05:09 – 02:27:15:18
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He was asking for forgiveness. Lord, show mercy upon them. He was expressing the righteousness of righteousness of God in the sentence.

02:27:15:20 – 02:27:44:16
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He had genuine love towards them. And by praying he wants to be a peacemaker. And God was revealing, revealing this to me, I really had goosebumps. And I said, okay Lord, I will when I’m preaching, I will include this also. But do you know what the Lord said? David, I’m telling this not to preach about it. I want you to practice it.

02:27:44:18 – 02:28:08:26
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At this verse, you know. Really I said, Lord, I can understand the poverty of spirit I spiritual poverty. I’m able to see that, Lord, I want to mourn. I want to feel grieved because right now I’m not able to do this. So I think as believers.

02:28:08:29 – 02:28:39:19
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We have to see all these qualities are developed in our Christian walk of life, and we cannot do anything with our own strength. All we can go is go back to God, accept our inabilities, confess it, repent, and ask the Holy Spirit to take charge of us. This is what we can do. You know, after after this beatitude for the next verse, it comes this.

02:28:39:21 – 02:29:11:22
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You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. I believe the saltiness of these beatitudes, all these qualities that is expected of us, is making us more salty, so that we will be we will make a difference in the lives of others.

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We can impact others if this saltiness is not in our self, in our life, if you are not able to forgive others, if you are living a hypocritical life.

02:29:26:26 – 02:29:53:19
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I believe you know it’s you know, the Bible verse Saints will be thrown and be trampled. Be be salty. Christian that God can use us. Yeah, this is what I hadn’t been my mind and my heart to share. And, you know, I want pastor to lead us in prayer and, you know, and, this is a prayer for my life.

02:29:53:19 – 02:30:25:03
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Lord, I want to see all these qualities in my life. I want to grow in you. And you know even what kind of persecution comes. Lord, I want to stand firm and and see all these qualities are expressed through my life, through all difficulties in my life. This a prayer from my life. I encourage everyone else here to have the same prayer.