SERMON SUMMARY - The Eight Prophetic Blessings of Jesus, Part 1
SERMON SUMMARY - The Eight Prophetic Blessings of Jesus, Part 1
By: John Hagee
Link: https://youtu.be/4rdYGVzMowU
Matthew 5:3-5 → Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth.
These Eight prophetic blessings established the Kingdom of God. We will look at three of those today.
God did not send His Son to the world to take the joy out of living in this world. He came to fill you with love, life, peace, confidence, joy knowing that your life can be filled with the divine breath of God and the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
Many people translate the word ‘blessed’ to mean happy. But, the word ‘blessed’ used here in Greek is makarios, which means life’s highest ideal. This blessedness is the good life on steroids. These people were looking for a Messiah from Rome.
Start looking for God to show up in your situation and give you an answer that will work.
God has given each of us a unique gift that we can use for God’s glory with enthusiasm. If we do so, we will never want for anything.
Perfect situations do not produce a perfect product
For example, Adam and Eve had a perfect environment but they fumbled the ball.
On the contrary, Paul wrote his epistles from prison. He had a horrible environment, but produced a wonderful product.
The joy of the God they served was greater than the problem they faced.
It makes no difference what your situation is, He is greater than the crisis you’re facing.
God didn’t promise you that you wouldn’t go through fire. He just promised you that when you got in the fire, He would show up.
If you can’t be happy with what you have, why do you think you’ll be happy with more?
Every person on earth has to learn for himself that happiness is not external. That’s what Jesus is teaching in these 8 statements.
Happiness does not depend on what you have. Happiness depends on what you are.
Happiness does not depend on the kind of house you live in. It depends on the kind of people that live in your house.
Happiness does not depend on the dress the lady wears. It depends on the lady in the dress.
Jesus is teaching you that you need to live life from the inside out, not the outside in. Real living and real joy comes from living from the inside out.
Blessed are the poor in spirit
Matthew 5:3 - “Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Isaiah 66:2 - For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist,” Says the Lord. “But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word.
Our God uses only broken things. You must be broken before God can use you.
Matthew 26:13 - Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”
Until that alabaster box was broken, the rich fragrance could not be smelled. The fragrance could not fill the room. It was useless until it was broken and so are we.
The secret of the good life with joy unspeakable is to have a broken spirit.
Psalm 51:17 - The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart— These, O God, You will not despise.
Blessed are those that mourn
Matthew 5:4 - Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.
Happy are those that mourn. He is not saying that this is for those who are cry babies or whining their way into maximum attention.
Our God is the God of all comfort. He will heal your broken heart today. Your crushed dreams can be restored.
There is a far greater loss than physical sensitivity. It is the loss of spiritual sensitivity to the present of God. That is the leprosy of the soul. If you get to a point where you can sin and your conscience no longer guides you, you are dying.
1 Timothy 4:2 - speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,
There is no fear, remorse, or pain. That means that you are in danger of losing your soul. Year after year you get accustomed to breaking the law of God and then you no longer feel His presence or absence.
Psalm 30:5 - For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.
Mourning is only for a certain time period. Christ is here to bring us joy unspeakable.
Blessed are the meek
Matthew 5:5 - Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth.
In our society, meekness is not an asset, but a liability. “Good guys finish last”. The only way to inherit the earth according to the world is to be as mean and aggressive as a junkyard God.
God always shows up in time. It may not be on your schedule, but it’s on His.
Meekness is not weakness. Meekness is the opposite of violence. It is not weak.
Martin Luther King was meek, but he was not weak. He went to jail and to DC for what he believed.
He changed America through a meek, aggressive presentation and the message got across.
Meekness speaks the truth in love, fearlessly.
Matthew 11:29 - Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Jesus was meek. But when He went to the Temple and chased out the moneychangers with a whip, He had righteous anger.
This same Jesus hung on the cross meekly. He could have called down 10,000 angels to annihilate all of us, but He didn’t. He could have destroyed the planet with a word. But He died for all of us instead, so that we would have an everlasting life.
Jesus was meek, but was not weak.
Meekness means power under control.
Proverbs 16:32 - He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
