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“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”¹

You can be truly happy

Here is an utterly new approach to living, one that results in joy instead of despair, in peace instead of conflict—a peace that the world does not understand and cannot have.

In the Sermon on the Mount, the emphasis is upon the internal, not the external. Jesus starts with what you are, not with what you necessarily know or do. So with respect to happiness is not put on a happy face, but put in a happy heart.

First of all, true happiness is found in humility. This is found by possessing a spirit of dependence, being “poor in spirit.”

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1. Matt. 5:3 [↩]

Why should the Bible be important to you? One reason is that the Word of God is always relevant.

Note that God’s Word was relevant for Jesus’ life:

“Stop thinking that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets, I have not come to destroy by to fulfill.”¹

Jesus said stop thinking…” The word “think” means to believe, hold, consider, to regard something as presumably true. In the language of the NT He said, “Stop thinking…” Cease regarding that I have come to destroy the Old Testament. “Abolish” means to destroy, overthrow, or cause to cease to exist. The disciples may have thought that Jesus, as the Messiah, was come to destroy the OT Law. Jesus’ mission in life was not to do away with the OT law or prophets but to fulfill them. He came “‘to give the true meaning to” or “to provide the real significance of” the OT.

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1. Matt 5:17 [↩]

“The contention was so sharp between them that they departed one from the other.”¹

In a classroom it is easier to judge by the face of a student whether an answer has helped or not.  Replying to an email from a distance, there is no sure way to know whether my reply met a need or not.  My cogitating mind has considered further about a group debating whether one indwelt by the Holy Spirit can apostatize so as to lose his salvation.  So far, I have tried to stress that only God can tell whether a person is a true believer or just faking it.  Then I endeavored to point out that many who have appeared to be commendable believers were not actually born again.  In denying the Savior, they were but revealing the true condition of their souls.

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1. Acts 15:39 [↩]

Audio Sermon: Make the choices to obey God , Matt 7:13-14

Pastor Lloy Stevens, Victory Baptist Church

Sunday, 02/07/10, AM Service

Podcast: Download (35.5MB)

In this column we are talking about children who grew up in a Christian home, but have not followed the Lord. Last time we began to focus on how parents handle their God given authority over their children. As noted previously, how we handle the authority God has given us as parents is critical to the process of training. We have briefly considered the warnings of Ephesians 6:4. Paul writes, “And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” If we provoke our children to wrath we may be the very reason they reject our Christian training. May no child ever be able to point at his own father or mother to seek justification for his own rebellion against the Lord. But, let there be no doubt that such rebellion will never be condoned by God nor will stumbling over an unjust parent ever excuse a young person’s sin. Still, the Lord gives parent’s severe warnings of the necessity to perform their parenting obligations well.

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February 20th and 21st, 2010

Studies in Genesis One and Two

Saturday 10:30AM, 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM

Sunday: 10:45 AM, 1:00PM, 2:00 PM