Beatitudes II

Extracted Verses and Quotes from the Sermon

Biblical Verses

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Matthew 5:5

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

Job 2:13

And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

Matthew 8:17

This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.”

Genesis 16

So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing,” for she said, “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.”

Psalm 37:11

But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace.

Psalm 24:1

The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein.

Deuteronomy 6:10-12

And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build, and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, then take care lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Matthew 6:21

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Memorable Quotes

In a polarized world, it’s my invitation to all of us to refocus on the teachings of Jesus in the gospels and particularly in The Sermon on the Mount.

This beatitude touches The Human Experience of every human in our planet today.

God personally will bring Comfort to his children as they go through seasons of grief.

We know little about the depths of the human Spirit until we have endured suffering.

Suffering reveal RS a depth of meaning that we may never otherwise achieve.

Jesus is able to cure all who are experiencing human alienation in all of its forms.

The righteous mourn over their own sin at a heart level and they are comforted through the Forgiveness that only God can bring.

If in our entertainment we choose to Revel and enjoy the sufferings of others, we are separating ourselves from Jesus.

While we are not to seek suffering, we do tend to grow the most spiritually during the storms of life.

As we express the meekness of Jesus to those around us, we actually start to experience the presence of God in our life in a beautiful way.

Other Quotations

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