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THE BEATITUDES | Wk 6: The Merciful

Pastor Scott Martin | 09.24.2023

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Matthew 5:7 (NIV)

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

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Matthew 18

Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?”

Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.

“Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold was brought to him. Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.

“At this the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’

The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.

“But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins. He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he demanded.

“His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.’

“But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt.

When the other servants saw what had happened, they were outraged and went and told their master everything that had happened.

“Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to.

Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’

In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

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Embracing with mercy across divisions of people wholly indicates the embrace of God.

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Mercy is a physical experience, not theoretical or existential only.

THE BEATITUDES | Wk 5: Hunger & Thirst for Righteousness

Pastor Mike Overstreet | 09.17.2023

Message recordings available at: https://vimeo.com/element3

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Matthew 5:6 (NIV)

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

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Tzedakah, or righteousness, describes the right, equitable, & fair relationships that God desires for Creation & exemplifies Himself. 

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Matthew 21:12-14 (NIV)

12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 

13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’” 14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. 

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Isaiah 56:1-7 (NIV)

“Maintain justice
    and do what is right,
for my salvation is close at hand
    and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

2 Blessed is the one who does this—
    the person who holds it fast,
who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it,
    and keeps their hands from doing any evil.”

3 Let no foreigner who is bound to the Lord say,
    “The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.”
And let no eunuch complain,
    “I am only a dry tree.”

4 For this is what the Lord says:

“To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,
    who choose what pleases me
    and hold fast to my covenant—

5 to them I will give within my temple and its walls
    a memorial and a name
    better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
    that will endure forever.

6 And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord
    to minister to him,
to love the name of the Lord,
    and to be his servants,
all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it
    and who hold fast to my covenant—

7 these I will bring to my holy mountain
    and give them joy in my house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices
    will be accepted on my altar;
for my house will be called
    a house of prayer for all nations.”

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Jeremiah 7:3-11 (NIV)

3 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place. 4 Do not trust in deceptive words and say, “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!” 5 If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, 6 if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, 7 then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever. 8 But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. But I have been watching! declares the Lord.

9 “‘Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, 10 and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things? 11 Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you?”

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Jesus modeled &, at times, calls us to feel righteous anger. 

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Righteous anger targets broken systems & circumstances, not people. 

Righteous anger isn’t about me. 

Righteous anger always restores.

THE BEATITUDES | Wk 4: The Meek

Pastor Lori Green | 09.10.2023

Message recordings available at: https://vimeo.com/element3

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Matthew 5:5 (NIV)

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

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MEEKness is not WEAKness.

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Matthew 4:23-24 (NLT)

Jesus traveled throughout the region of Galilee, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And he healed every kind of disease and illness. News about him spread as far as Syria, and people soon began bringing to him all who were sick. And whatever their sickness or disease, or if they were demon possessed or epileptic or paralyzed—he healed them all.

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“God blesses those who are HUMBLE, for they will inherit the whole earth.” 

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Humility is not OVER or UNDER estimating your sense of worth.   

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In God’s upside-down Kingdom, our weakness is our strength and our strength is our meekness, our humility.  

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1. The Beatitudes are less about what we DO and more about who we are.
2. Meekness is NOT weakness.
3. Humility is not having an over-inflated OR an under-inflated sense of yourself.  
4. We have NOTHING that God needs but He still wants us.

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• Stop the comparison of ourselves to others. 
• Consider others more than we consider ourselves.   
• Don’t OVER or UNDER value your gifts.  
• Forgiven -> Forgive 

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Meekness is humble authority.

THE BEATITUDES | Wk 3: Those Who Mourn

Pastor Mike Overstreet | 09.03.2023

Message recordings available at: https://vimeo.com/element3

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Matthew 5:4 (NIV)

⁴ Blessed are those who mourn,
    for they will be comforted.

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Being blessed is to come into the proximity of God. 

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Matthew 26:36-46 (NIV)

³⁶ Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” ³⁷ He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. ³⁸ Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”

³⁹ Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

⁴⁰ Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Couldn’t you men keep watch with me for one hour?” he asked Peter. ⁴¹ “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

⁴² He went away a second time and prayed, “My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done.”

⁴³ When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. ⁴⁴ So he left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same thing.

⁴⁵ Then he returned to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour has come, and the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners. ⁴⁶ Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!”

THE BEATITUDES | Wk 2: Poor In Spirit

Pastor Scott Martin | 08.27.2023

Message recordings available at: https://vimeo.com/element3

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Matthew 5:3 (NIV)

Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

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All of these examples acknowledge the least of all humanity and commands all of us to preach hope to those that are not hope filled.  

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We should celebrate our impoverished state.

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Matthew 13:44-46 (NIV)

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.”

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All must become blessed by releasing everything that they are to become nothing in comparision to Christ. In becomming nothing we gain everything.

THE BEATITUDES | Wk 1: Being Blessed

Pastor Scott Martin | 08.20.2023

Message recordings available at: https://vimeo.com/element3

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First Recorded teachings of Jesus’ Ministry in Matthew’s Account

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Targets the “Least of These”

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Reorients Jesus’ Culture (and contemporary too!)

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Use Repetition & Pattern literally in using the word “Blessed.”

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In our society an emotionally charged but shallow happiness has coopted being blessed.

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If God brings blessings, proximity to God is being blessed.

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We must yearn after Jesus’ blessing because Jesus embodies every beatitude.  

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Every blessing comes from Jesus.

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What areas of your life are you holding back from God?

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Where can you celebrate a beatitude filled moment?

EPHESIANS | Wk 10: The Armor of God

Pastor Mike Overstreet | 08.06.2023

Message recordings available at: https://vimeo.com/element3

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Ephesians 6:10-12 (NIV)

10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 

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The Satan – the personification of spiritual evil & the sum of everything opposed to God’s intentions.

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Rulers, Authorities, & Powers represents Paul’s terms for corporate evil or sin.

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Ephesians 6:13-17 (NIV)

13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

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Ephesians 6:18-24 (NIV)

18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. 19 Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.

21 Tychicus, the dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will tell you everything, so that you also may know how I am and what I am doing. 22 I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage you.

23 Peace to the brothers and sisters,[c] and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

EPHESIANS | Wk 9: Submission Interpretation

Pastor Scott Martin | 07.30.2023

Message recordings available at: https://vimeo.com/element3

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PICK THE DECADE!

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Ephesians 5:22-33 (NIV)

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

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Ephesians 6:1-9 (NIV)

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.“Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—“so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”

Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people, because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do, whether they are slave or free.

And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

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How might Paul view our society today?

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Ephesians 5:21: Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

EPHESIANS | Wk 8: A Whole New Me

Panel Discussion | 07.23.2023

Message recordings available at: https://vimeo.com/element3

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QUESTION 1: What’s often necessary for a major life transformation to take place? What usually begins, empowers, or inhibits this kind of radical growth within an individual?

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QUESTION 2: What stands out about the major aspects of being human that Paul specifically identifies here? How are they measurements for spiritual or emotional maturity, development, & growth? Which do you perceive to be the hardest for people to experience change within?

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QUESTION 3: How do these worship, thankfulness, & elevating others over oneself combine to highlight an image of spiritual maturity for us to pursue? 

EPHESIANS | Wk 7: A Mature Community

Pastor Mike Overstreet | 07.16.2023

Message recordings available at: https://vimeo.com/element3

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Ephesians 4:1-16 (NIV)

As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

7 But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. 8 This is why it[a] says:

“When he ascended on high,
    he took many captives
    and gave gifts to his people.”[b]

9 (What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions[c]? 10 He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) 11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

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