Matthew 5:6
Pope Paul VI said...Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the
promised land. She prepares a w_________________________.
C.S. Lewis said, If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world
can satisfy, then the most probable explanation is that I was m_____________ __________________________________.
The righteousness of f___________
The righteousness of p____________
The righteousness of c_____________
True Christianity has 3 components...C_________, C___________ and
C____________.
Cotton Mather, a Puritan preacher, once said, The opportunity to do good imposes the o_____________ to do it.
Matthew 5:5
Meekness means a distinct lack of...
H_________________________________________________
G_________________________________________________
V_________________________________________________
R_________________________________________________
But we are...
C______________________ Romans 8:15-18
J______________________ I Corinthians 6:2
P____________________________________ I Corinthians 3:21-22
The e________________________
What is the path to meekness?
Realize that this is a mark of the Spirit of God’s work in developing the
f________________________ Galatians 3:22-23
Choose J______________ as outlined in Matthew 11:28-30
Matthew 5:4
It is a picture of people confronted with their personal sins and yet
refusing to rationalize them, refusing to call them minimal things but
choosing to w_____________________________.
The mark of the mature life is not s_____________, but growing awareness of s______________.
Mourning over sin is not optional…it is necessary for s____________.
Christians mourning over sin is essential to s________________.
How do we mourn?
We must remove the h_________________ that keep us from mourning.
We must know the ____________________.
We must _______________.
Matthew 5:1-3
Blessed is a positive judgment by God on someone He approves of… it indicates the smile of God, the a______________________.
Combine that with in spirit and the sense is blessed are those who are so desperately poor in their spiritual resources that they realize they must have h___________________________________.
You can’t k________________ without poverty of spirit.
Spiritual riches, kingdom resources come from a p___________________ of our spiritual insufficiency.
Our poverty of spirit, our weakness, is a r__________________________ because it is the way that His power and adequacy is realized.
G.K Chesterton said...The Christian ideal has not been t______________________________...it has been found difficult and left untried.
1. The Past Evangelical Explosion (Mark 16:25)
2. The Present Unfinished Task
3. The Future: What Should we Expect? (Habakkuk 2:14)
Suggested Resources:
Book or Ebook: The Future of the Global Church by Patrick Johnstone
Website: www.gmi.org
