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Tony Evans - Unleashing Kingdom Values

January 11, 2026 | 27:29

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Dr. Tony Evans | Tony Evans - Unleashing Kingdom Values | January 11, 2026

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Tony evans: when you become dependent as a lifestyle,
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He says, "then i'm going to give you
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The rule of heaven operating in your life."
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If you recognize you're dependent,
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That means i'm not looking for earth to be my sufficiency.
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He says, "as long as i see you're not looking at earth
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To be your sufficiency, heaven will get involved
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In your earthly reality."
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Tony: the greatest sermon ever preached
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By the greatest preacher who ever proclaimed
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Is the sermon on the mount.
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It is a sermon about the kingdom of god.
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The whole sermon centers on what we've talked about,
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"seek ye first the kingdom and all these things
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Will be added to you."
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All throughout you'll find this thing
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About the kingdom.
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Again, the kingdom is the jurisdiction
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Of divine rule.
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It's the realm of god's authority.
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It is the spiritual realm from which he rules
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That he wants to be made a template
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On the physical realm in which we live.
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And that realm, that jurisdiction,
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Is called the kingdom, the realm of god's rule
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In heaven that he wants transplanted
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To earth.
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In this sermon, jesus christ wants to tell
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His disciples first and then later he speaks
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To the whole crowd about the virtues
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Of kingdom people.
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What do kingdom people look like?
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What are their core values, if you will?
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What do they hold dear?
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And when they hold these values, what is their expectation
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As a benefit for holding these values?
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So in the beatitudes, there is a recitation
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Of kingdom values by kingdom people,
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And he gives kingdom benefit.
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And so while a lot of people like to quote the beatitudes,
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They don't often kingdomize them to fully understand
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Their meaning and their implications.
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And so i thought what we would do today
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Is succinctly walk you through these values.
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I will give you, hopefully today,
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A value system from the king and his kingdom
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And why it should matter that those values
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Are our values as kingdom people.
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Over and over again we're introduced
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To the word "blessed," blessed, blessed, blessed, blessed.
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Nine times he recites the word "blessed."
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The idea of blessed has to do with divine favor
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Coming to you that's designed to flow through you.
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So let's survey them.
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That's all we can do.
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Each one could be its own sermon.
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But the first thing he says is, "blessed are the poor in spirit,
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For theirs is the kingdom of god."
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He says there is a reward for spiritual poverty.
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He's not talking about economics.
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He says blessed is the poor in spirit.
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That is, blessed is the person who recognizes
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Their own insufficiency.
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Because you're poor, you don't have enough
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On your own.
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Spiritual insufficiency means i am dependent on god,
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Because i can't get it all together on my own.
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Spiritual insufficiency means if god doesn't do it,
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Help me with it, provide it for me,
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Then i don't have enough to do it without him.
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The moment you are self-sufficient,
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You have become god's enemy.
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The moment you are no longer poor in spirit,
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Then what you have said is, "god, i can make it
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Without you."
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And god says, "okay, let's see how you do."
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Poor in spirit recognizes in humility
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What jesus said, "without me you can do nothing."
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And so, the sense of dependency, of the recognition
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That i am insufficient without divine approval
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And without divine provision.
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I am insufficient, and carrying that
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As a mindset, as an orientation.
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He says, "when you recognize in humility
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Your insufficiency apart from me,
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That if i don't help, you're in trouble."
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He says, "for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
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When you, me, we, and us become dependent as a lifestyle,
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Not merely as an event when things are going bad,
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But as a lifestyle, he says,
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"then i'm going to give you something.
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I'm going to give you the rule of heaven
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Operating in your life."
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Now, the reason why that is important
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Is the rule of heaven overrules what's happening
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On earth.
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Because the bible says heaven rules earth.
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So if you recognize you're dependent,
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That means i'm not looking for earth to be my sufficiency.
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He says, "as long as i see you're not looking at earth
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To be your sufficiency, i'll let heaven
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Be your sufficiency.
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Yours will be the kingdom of heaven."
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That is, heaven will get involved
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In your earthly reality.
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And what is a kingdom?
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A kingdom is a rule.
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So he is saying, "i will rule from heaven
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When i see you dependent on earth.
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But if you are dependent on earth for earth,
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I'll just let earth handle you.
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But if you are dependent on me because you're poor in spirit,
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You recognize your insufficiency,
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Then heaven will get engaged in your life circumstances."
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And so he starts off with poverty of spirit.
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If we think more highly of ourselves
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Then we ought to think, not recognizing
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We are dependent on god from the time we wake up
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To the time we go to bed and then the sleep between.
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So he says there must be poor-- poverty of spirit.
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That is, dependency and the recognition
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You're not self-sufficient.
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Secondly, "blessed are those who mourn,
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For they shall be comforted."
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This mourning is sadness over sin.
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Mourning is sadness over sin.
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You're mourning because of your sin
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Or the effects of sin, even if it's on others.
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Sin should make us sad when we see it in our own lives,
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The regrets of our sin, and when we see
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Its effect in the world around us,
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On our loved ones, on our society.
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The negative effects of sin are no joking matter.
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You are blessed when what hurts the heart of god
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Hurts your heart too.
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You are blessed when you feel about evil
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The way god feels about evil.
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Where it's not dismissed, but it hurts when you fail god,
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Failed yourself in god's name.
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When lazarus died and jesus saw the effects of sin
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That brought about death and the pain of martha and mary
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Weeping over the loss of their brother,
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The shortest verse in the bible says, "jesus wept."
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He cried at the death-dealing effects
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Of sin.
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When peter denied the lord three times, "i don't know
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The man, i don't know the man, i don't know the man,"
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The bible says he went out and he wept bitterly.
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Isaiah, when he saw his own sin, with his tongue he says,
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"woe is me.
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I am undone."
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Over and over again, whether it's in sackcloth
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And ashes, people are pained for their own sin
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Or for the effect of sin.
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And if you've been listening to the news
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And watching the culture, there's a lot to cry about
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As you see the effects of sin that are destroying
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People's lives, confusing their identities,
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Destroying the family.
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When you see all of this taking place,
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The rise in crime, the vitriol, the hatred,
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The racism, the classism, when you see people's lives
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Being trampled underfoot, that's mourning.
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That's pain.
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And he says, "you're blessed when you feel about it
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Like i feel about it."
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"blessed are those who mourn," but then he says,
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"for they shall be comforted."
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He comforts mourners.
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God says, "when you feel like i feel,
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I'll get you a comforter, a paraclete."
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So where the holy spirit is,
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"i will bring comfort for your pain
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Because you share in my pain."
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God says, "when i see you're uncomfortable
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With your sin or the effects of sin,
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Then i will come to your comfort because you are feeling
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Like i feel."
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So it's okay if you ask god to give you a mourner's heart
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For where you have fallen short or where you see
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The effects of others falling short,
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Bringing decay in their lives as well.
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So he goes on and says, "blessed are the gentle,
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For they shall inherit the earth."
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"blessed are the gentle, for they shall
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Inherit the earth."
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Some versions say, "blessed are the meek."
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Okay, so let's get this straight.
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Meek doesn't mean weak.
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To be meek is to submit to the will of god.
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Moses is called the meekest man who ever lived.
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He's called that in numbers chapter 12.
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That's very interesting.
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Moses marries an african woman.
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It's an interracial marriage.
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We're told twice he marries this african,
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This ethiopian woman.
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And his brother and sister don't like it.
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They don't like this interracial marriage,
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And they're upset with moses for marrying this black woman.
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It says they were so upset, they came out against moses.
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After it says he married this woman,
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They come out, miriam and aaron, against moses.
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The next verse says, "now moses was the meekest man
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On the earth."
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It's the next verse.
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After talking about the problem, it says, "now moses--"
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Why would you insert that moses was the meekest man
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Right then after talking about the problem?
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What's that got to do with the price of tomatoes?
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"moses was the meekest man on all the earth"
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After he marries a woman of african descent
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That his brother and sister don't like.
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So he's got a race issue, he got a family issue,
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He got a sibling issue, he got all these issues,
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And he is the meekest man on the earth.
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'cause the next verse says, "now god came down
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And said to miriam and aaron, 'y'all got to be crazy.
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Y'all have lost your mind.
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And to let you know how i feel about what you just did
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To your brother, miriam, i'm gonna turn you white.'
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And from head to toe," the bible says,
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"she became white."
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We're gonna change your whole shade.
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He made her totally white until she repented,
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And then her natural skin tone came back.
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Now, what is the point?
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The point was because moses was submitted to god,
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Look at what the verse says, "blessed are the meek,
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For they shall inherit the earth."
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Once they came out against moses because he was submitted
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To the will of god, god entered into the situation
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And became moses's defense.
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See, the reason why we got to defend ourselves
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Is because we not meek.
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Because we're not submitted to the will of god,
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God doesn't feel obligated to intervene on earth
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In our earthly situation.
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He said, "you take care of it then.
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Okay, you don't want to submit to me,
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You handle it yourself."
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So we fuss and we cuss and we fight
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And we try to make it happen and all that.
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He says, "no, no.
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When you are meek, you inherit."
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Oh, wait a minute, let's talk about inheritance.
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Inheritance basically is a will.
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It's a will that somebody bequeaths to you.
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So if you have a will and you say,
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Let's say at 21 the child will receive
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This amount of money, x amount of money
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Over a certain amount of time, so they have
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This inheritance waiting for them.
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But let's say the inheritance is tied to a condition of life.
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In other words, if they on drugs,
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We're not going to give it to them.
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In other words, the inheritance is tied to something.
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What god is saying, when i see meekness,
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I let you get some of your will.
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Every christian has a will.
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Every christian has a bequeath, an inheritance,
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That god has determined to make available to you
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On earth because it says, "they inherit the earth."
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So we're not talking about the sweet by and by,
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We're talking about the nasty here and now.
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He says, "you will inherit on earth.
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I will bring what i have bequeathed to you
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And deliver it to you, because i see
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You're submitted to me."
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So a lot of our inheritances are still hanging up there
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In outer space.
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He says, "blessed are the meek, those who submit
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To the will of god, for they will then be able
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To get their inheritance."
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So don't let your inheritance stay on some paper
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When god wants to deliver it on earth, "inherit the earth."
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So he didn't have-- he didn't even have to
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Say a word.
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If you've never seen god come in and you didn't have to
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Say a word, because he just showed up
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Because of your meekness in the biblical definition
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Of the word.
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He didn't have to say a word.
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It says god showed up and intervened
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On an earthly situation involving his family.
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He goes on and he says, "blessed are those who hunger
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And thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied."
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He's now talking about spiritual appetite.
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The body needs food, but the soul
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Needs righteousness.
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Righteousness has to do with doing that
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Which is pleasing to god.
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The soul is hungry.
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It's just as the body is hungry and it wants to be fed.
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When the soul is being fed righteousness,
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The word "soul" in the bible means life,
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The life becomes satisfied.
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The reason why we have so many dissatisfied people
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Is we have so many spiritually hungry people,
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Because they've been feeding their souls
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The wrong information.
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And when you feed your soul wrongness and not righteousness,
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When you feed your soul secular standards
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And not god's standards, when you feed your soul
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The world's approach and not god's approach,
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You stay hungry, why?
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Because the soul is not getting what the soul requires.
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Now the problem is what the culture, the society,
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And what we want to feed ourselves
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Tastes good.
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And because it tastes good, that's what we want to eat.
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But what we want to eat is not what the soul requires.
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And since what we wanna eat is not what the soul requires,
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We have dissatisfied lives, 'cause that's not
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What god is going to-- that's not what has
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The nutrition that the soul is requiring
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For the life to be lived.
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What society offers tastes good.
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It's just non-nutritional.
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He says, "blessed are those who hunger and thirst
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After the right thing.
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That is, the thing that brings me glory,
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The thing that pleases me, the thing that
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Satisfies my standard."
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See, we all have an appetite, but the question is
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What are we hungry for?
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He says, "hungry for righteousness."
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That is, hungry for that which pleases god.
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And what is the reward?
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You will be satisfied.
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"blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy."
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Mercy is undeserved compassion and relief from suffering.
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Mercy is designed to relieve misery
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And not give you what you deserve.
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What he says in this beatitude is,
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"on the time you're gonna need mercy,
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I'm gonna see what kind of mercy
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Is in your account.
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What kind of mercy did you show others
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Now that you're asking me to show it to you?"
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Blessed are the mercy-- favored are the merciful,
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For they will be able to get what they gave.
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Because a lot of people want mercy
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Who are unwilling to give it.
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You've seen it in a court where people throw themselves
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On the mercy of the court.
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They're asking, "don't give me what i deserve."
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It's up to the court to decide that.
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But they look, or god says, the favor of god
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When it comes to you not getting what you deserve
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Or to be pitiful and relieve your suffering
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Is tied to whether you are willing
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To give it to somebody else.
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In fact, luke 6:38 says what you want god to give you,
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Make sure you're offering it to others.
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Verse 8, "blessed are the pure in heart,
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For they shall see god."
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The pure in heart are the authentic,
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Undivided, unmixed, non-double-minded.
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He says, "blessed are the pure in heart,
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For they shall see god."
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Now, god cannot be seen.
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The bible says no man has seen god at any time.
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He is the invisible god because in his essence
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God is spirit.
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So he is non-corporeal, which means he's non-physical,
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He is a spirit.
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But he says, "blessed are the pure in heart,
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For they shall see god."
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This refers to shekinah glory.
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Shekinah glory is where god manifest his presence.
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In other words, you see him show up in shekinah glory.
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It was like the fire when they were led by fire
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Or led by the cloud in the old testament,
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God showed up, not a physical being,
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But he showed up through a physical reality.
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So to see god is to see god show up in such a way
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That could only be god.
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Where god showed up, showed off, and showed out,
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And you knew it was god
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Stepping into your circumstances.
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When he sees that you're pure of heart,
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You're not faking it to make it, but you're the real deal,
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He says, "then you'll see me.
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You will see me."
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You won't have to depend on somebody else's testimony
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Who saw him, because you will see him
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For yourself.
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"blessed are the peacemakers," not peacekeepers, peacemakers.
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These are those who seek to resolve conflict
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And reestablish broken relationships.
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These are the bridge builders, not the bridge destroyers.
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"blessed are the peacemakers."
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These are the people, the christians, the disciples,
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Who want to see harmony because they understand
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That the call of the cross is the call to be a reconciler,
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Not a divider.
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"but blessed are the peacemakers,
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For they shall be called the sons of god."
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In other words, there will be public recognition.
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They shall be called.
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You will make-- god will make sure
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You get recognized.
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And finally, "blessed are you," in, well, verse 10,
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"blessed are those who have been persecuted
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For the sake of righteousness."
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Verse 11, "blessed are you when people insult you,
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Persecute you, and falsely say
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Unkind and evil things about you because of me.
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Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven
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Is great.
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Blessed are the persecuted, when you are rejected
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Because of a righteous stand and a righteous relationship.
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Blessed are you, rewarded are you,
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Favored are you when this world rejects you
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Because you're keeping my standard
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And keeping your identification."
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He says, "because of me, you're keeping
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Your identification with me."
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Okay, so you need to understand this.
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If you're going to be a public christian today,
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You are going to get varying levels of rejection.
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So i'm gonna tell you that now.
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You are now living in a-- not just a post-christian era,
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You're living in an anti-christian era, okay?
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So i'll tell you now, if you hold
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To a biblical standard, he calls it righteousness.
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If you hold to a biblical standard,
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You're going to be rejected and they're going to try
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To cancel you.
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But last time i checked the verse says
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When that happens, be glad.
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He says, "i want you to get your praise on
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When they come against you.
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Because every time you're rejected
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For righteousness or rejected because you're
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Publicly associated with me, i am ringing up the tab
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On your reward.
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I just want you to know i'm ringing that baby up
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Because you my kind of christian."
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In fact, you're a disciple of jesus christ.
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When you go to your different places
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To live, to eat, to work, to talk, to walk,
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Everybody ought to know that you're a christian.
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You--there shouldn't be a question mark,
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Shouldn't be doubts.
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They shouldn't be wondering who you from, what you believe.
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You ought to name the name of jesus christ.
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If he can go public on the cross for you,
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You can go public in the culture for him.
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It's time for christians to make
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Their righteous, loving stand for christ.
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Tony Evans - Unleashing Kingdom Values

January 11, 2026 | 27:29

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