Hope you are all doing well this morning. If you don’t know me, my name is Curtis Hall. Honored to be preaching today. We are pausing in our series in 1 Peter, and focusing this morning on one of the beatitudes. The reason being, is that I was already on the schedule to preach this week, but last week I preached at another church on this beatitude, and Pastor Chris was kind enough to allow me to preach that same sermon this Sunday. Also, come this summer, we will be doing a sermon series on the Sermon On The Mount, so this will be a bit of a teaser for what is to come. I don’t know about you, but when I read the Sermon on the Mount, which is Jesus most famous teaching, there is a call that comes from that sermon for us, to buy in to a different way of living life. It calls to you and I to live differently than we do now, as God’s people; the church. A.W. Tozer who said “A frightened world needs a fearless church.” Not a church that is reckless or careless, but fearless because it believe in a good, sovereign God. If there was ever a time the world needed bold Christians who truly believe the words that Jesus said, it is now. It’s not about being more conservative or more liberal, it’s about being other-worldly. Another word you could say is, Counter-Cultural. “The world does not need cool Christians who are culturally saturated. Rather, it needs exiles with the scent of heaven on them.” - John Piper