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Blessed are the Poor in Spirit (Sermon on the Mount Series) Episode 1 - Sunday, 13th October 2024

What does it mean to be 'Blessed'? 

We have heard this word a lot ; but do you know what it means for your life - to be truly 'Blessed'? 

Sermon on the Mount Series Episode 1 [Matthew 5:3 - "Blessed are the poor in spirit for their's is the Kingdom of Heaven"]

Stay in the Father’s house. 
Luke 15:11-32
1. Life is good in the Father’s house. - Luke 15:17
2. Money can’t make up for the loss. - Luke 15:11-12
3. There is no fun or experience that can make up for the loss. - Luke 15:13
4 Eventually a famine will come. - Luke 15:14
5. You will end up serving someone who doesn’t care about you. - Luke 15:15
6. If you do leave the house of the Father, have the good sense to run back to the Him. - Luke 15:17-19
7.  There is a permanent cost to leaving the house of the Father. - Luke 15:31

The Story of Hannah and Samuel in 1 Samuel Chapter 1. 

Overcoming Depression
Psalm 42
1. Recognise your feelings - Why? - Psalm 42:5,11
2. Share our feelings with God - Psalm 42:6; Hebrews 4:15; 1 Peter 5:7
3. Encourage yourself in God - Speak His Word - Psalm 42:5; 1 Samuel 30:6; Psalm 119:28
4. Hope in God - Psalm 42:5,11; Hebrews 6:19
5. Remember God - Psalm 42:6
6. Praise God - Psalm 42:5; Isaiah 61:1-3
7. Declare - My help comes from God - Psalm 9:9; 42:5

Caleb the Overcomer
1. You must have faith in God - Hebrews 11:6
2. You must give yourself wholly to the Lord - Numbers 32:12
3. But you must also maintain a right attitude in spite of adversities - Hebrews 12:15
4. You must also have unquenchable desire to overcome for God - Don't Quit - Joshua 14:9-11
5. Finally, we must go out and overcome - Joshua 15:13-14

Be an Overcomer 
Romans 12:14-21

1. Determine to bring your enemies good not harm. - Romans 12:14
2. Show concern for your enemies gains and losses. - Romans 12:15
3. Don’t allow yourself to think you are better. - Romans 12:16
4. Do not allow another’s evil to determine your response. - Romans 12:17
5. Always try to maintain an atmosphere of Peace. - Romans 12:18
6. Let God worry about repaying evil. - Romans 12:19
7. Give your enemy what he needs not what he wants. - Romans 12:20

Mark 4. The Parable of the Sower. 
1. This is the key to all the parables - Mark 4:13
2. The seed by the wayside - Mark 4:15
3. The seed sown on stony ground - Mark 4:16-17
4. The seed among the thorns - Mark 4:18-19
5 the seed on good ground - Mark 4:20
6. The responsibility for the soil - Mark 4:23-25

Mrk 4:1  And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. Mrk 4:2  And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Mrk 4:3  Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: Mrk 4:4  And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. Mrk 4:5  And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: Mrk 4:6  But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. Mrk 4:7  And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. Mrk 4:8  And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred. Mrk 4:9  And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. The Purpose of the Parables Mrk 4:10  And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. Mrk 4:11  And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: Mrk 4:12  That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. Mrk 4:13  And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables? Mrk 4:14  The sower soweth the word. Mrk 4:15  And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. Mrk 4:16  And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; Mrk 4:17  And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended. Mrk 4:18  And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, Mrk 4:19  And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. Mrk 4:20  And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred. 
Mrk 4:21-25 And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? 22 For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad. 23 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. 24And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. 25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.

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