.Welcome! If you are new to this blog, every Wednesday we spend some special time in the Bible looking at our scripture of the month. I encourage you to join us in also putting these scripture(s) to memory.
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First, join me in watching this short video about the Bible. You can pause the playlist above before starting this video.
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I'm sitting here, snowed in on this wintery January day, still in my pajamas - with my laptop on my lap. Last night, right after posting the above, my PC desktop computer informed me that it had contracted a trojan horse virus. Ugh! Life is full of frustrations! In fact it can be soooo hard! How does one get through it with meaning, sanity, joy, and blessing? That's the reason we're studying the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). I invite you to read through the first 11 posts of this year to "catch up" with where we are today. Only Jesus has the complete answer of how to lead THE BLESSED LIFE.
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Matthew chapter 5 is our chapter to put to memory for the year. We've begun with the first 3 verses this month. Verse 3 is foundatonal to understand THE BLESSED LIFE.
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.MATTHEW 5:1-3 .
Now when He saw the crowds, He went up on a mountainside and sat down. .
His disciples came to Him, and He began to teach them, saying:
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"BLESSED are the POOR IN SPIRIT,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
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.. The apostle Paul learned the secret to THE BLESSED LIFE ... this life that begins with being poor in spirit. Let's ask Paul some questions. He can answer through the verses he wrote in PHILIPPIANS 2:5-7
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1. Paul, what should my continual outlook on life be?
- Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
2. Who is Christ Jesus, Paul?
- Who, being in very nature God,
3. So, my attitude should be the same as God? Isn't that kind of prideful? Wouldn't that make me kind of full of myself?
- did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but He made HImself nothing,
4. Okay, so if Jesus, who is God, didn't have an attitude that was full of Himself - what did that look like?
- taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness..
As you ponder these new verses from Philippians today, consider using the word AGES. Paul is sharing with us a foundational concept... for living THE BLESSED LIFE... for the AGES.
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Try memorizing it in these 4 sections:
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1. A: Attitude of Christ Jesus
- Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
- Who, being in very nature God,
- did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing,
- taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
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- Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus
- Who, being in very nature God,
- did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing,
- taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
~BLESSED~
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