Blessed are the Steadfast
Can we ever lose our salvation? Why or why not?
Can we ever achieve holiness in our life? Why or why not?
Does God ever command us to do something that we cannot do?
To identify the blessing… let's first understand the consequence of not being steadfast:
The consequence is not inheriting the Kingdom
The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
[2] but his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
[4] The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
[5] Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
[6] for the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
[9] Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, [10] nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
[19] Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, [20] idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, [21] envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
[8] But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Holiness is written on everything in heaven.
And nothing unholy can enter into this heaven (Rev. 21:27; Heb.
12:14). Even if you could enter heaven without holiness, what would you do? What joy would you feel there? What holy man or woman of God would you sit down with for fellowship? Their pleasures are not your pleasures. Their character is not your character. What they love, you do not love. If you dislike a holy God now, why would you want to be with him forever? If worship does not capture your attention at present, what makes you think it will thrill you in some heavenly future? If ungodliness is your delight here on earth, what will please you in heaven, where all is clean and pure? You would not be happy there if you are not holy here.
Possible story of Africa delighting in land
Blessed are The Blameless recap (Vs 1)
To be blameless is without fault
There is an objective standard - God’s character and the revelation of it in the Bible
Made Blameless before God - IN CHRIST
Positional Sanctification (New Idea for the Group) made holy in one moment for all time before the Lord. this is UNION with God.
Blessed are those IN Christ (vs 2-4)
Progressive sanctification being conformed to the image of God.
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
In Christ we are dead to sin and alive to righteousness
In Christ we are new creations
In Christ we have new life
In Christ we are holy and precious
In Christ we are made holy… we can be holy only because he is holy
As we conform to the image of God, we move from UNION to COMMUNION while we can never sin enough to lose the union that we have… (Think Marriage) we can lose communion.
Our steadfastness is counted to us as Holiness before God.
Blessed are those who are with Christ (5-6)
Union and Communion with Christ does not describe some of the blessings that we receive in salvation - its all the blessing. You cannot live a blessed life without being steadfast to the commands of God.
Blessed are the steadfast for they will not be put to shame. For you will be with God.