Beautiful Attitudes and the Way of Jesus - Part 2
Mat 5:4 Blessed are those who
Take My Yoke - Learn My Ways
Mat 11:28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Mat 11:29 Take My yoke upon you andfrom Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find for your .
Mat 11:30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” —Matt 11:28-30 NKJV
This is a kingdom
1. We can only access the kingdom by admitting that we are spiritually
and we can only access the comfort (blessed assurance of salvation) offered by Jesus when we are ready to mourn over our
and the state of this
world.
- We mourn over our
- We mourn over a
Act 2:36 Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Act 2:37 Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
Act 2:38 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Act 2:39 For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”
Act 2:40 And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”
Act 2:41 So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. —ESV
Repentance (Changed and transformed mind Romans 12) can only come with the renunciation of our sinful ways and you won’t truly be able to leave the old life behind unless you experience Godly
2Co 7:10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. ESV
God allows this grief into our lives as a
Php 3:10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, —ESV
2. There is comfort for those who mourn the loss of a loved one. Only when we learn to mourn while remaining “In Jesus” will we be ready to receive the true
promised by Jesus.
- When a beleiver dies we mourn.
- We don’t mourn the same for a believer as for an unbeliever.
- We find comfort when we realise that for believers death is not goodbye but see you later.
- We find comfort when we remember that for the Christian death has lost its sting, and leaving this body is like laying down for a nap and waking in the presence of Jesus.
- We mourn while in Christ and we are comforted.
- We mourn while in hope.
- Mourn well cry, cry out to God and heal up well.
1Th 4:13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. —NKJV
- When a un-beleiver dies we mourn.
- It is extremely difficult when we have seen no fruit of salvation.
- It is extremely difficult when we have seen no fruit of repentance.
- It is extremely difficult when we have seen no fruit of faith.
- The enemy will make an attempt to replace greif with guilt “I should have tried harder”
- The enemy will make an attempt to replace greif with bitternes at God.
- We find comfort in the fact that God will do right.
Gen 18:25 Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” —NKJV
- We find comfort and confidence in the character of God.
- We find comfort in the fact that God is Just.
- We find comfort in the fact that God is Good.
- We find comfort in the fact that God is Merciful.(Theif on the cross)
- We find comfort in the fact that God does not do anything that we will not ultimately approve one day.
- Mourn well cry, cry out to God and heal up well.
Joh 11:34 And He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.”
Joh 11:35 Jesus.
Joh 11:36 Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!” —NKJVWe are comforted when by Grace, we move to the place where we realize that one day God will give us the emotional wherewithal to see the justice in His actions. —John Piper
We are comforted when we move to the place of trusting that one day God will help us find closure.
Isa 57:1 Good people pass away; the godly often die before their time. But no one seems to care or wonder why. No one seems to understand that God is protecting them from the evil to come. —NLT
3. You will be blessed and comforted when you realise that God is in-capable of evil. He didn’t cause the evil situation but He can
it to help us to become more like Jesus.
- You can receive comfort when you come to the place of Trusting that God knows best.
- God didn’t create the bad day, but He will use it for something good.
Keep the focus on what’s happening
There is still hope!
- Find cocomfort in testimonies!
You will find comfort when you make a list of stories of God showing up in amazing ways when people are going through tough situations.
James 1:2-4 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. —NIV
Heb 11:35 Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection.
Heb 11:36 Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
Heb 11:37 They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated—
Heb 11:38 the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.
Heb 11:39 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised,
** Heb 11:40 since God had planned somethingfor us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.** —NIV
God is omnipresent and always present. HE can be weeping over one place and Celebrating over another at the same time. **
- We are healthy when we take the time to mourn and also the time to rejoice. Everything has a season.
The only hope of moving from Shock, Sorrow, Struggle to peace is to Surrender. —Chris Hodges
Build Your House on the Rock
Mat 7:24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:
Mat 7:25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
Mat 7:26 “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand:
Mat 7:27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”
The Authority of Jesus
Mat 7:28 And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching,
Mat 7:29 for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. —NKJVPsa 30:2 O LORD my God, I cried out to You, And You healed me.
Psa 30:3 O LORD, You brought my soul up from the grave; You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Psa 30:4 Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of His, And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name.
** Psa 30:5 For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life;may endure for a night, But comes in the morning.**
Psa 30:6 Now in my prosperity I said, “I shall never be moved.”
Psa 30:7 LORD, by Your favor You have made my mountain stand strong; You hid Your face, and I was troubled.
Psa 30:8 I cried out to You, O LORD; And to the LORD I made supplication:
Psa 30:9 “What profit is there in my blood, When I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth?
Psa 30:10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me; LORD, be my helper!”
Psa 30:11 You have turned for me myinto ; You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, —NKJV Lamentations 3:22-23
22 Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. —NKJVThe Lord Is My Light and My Salvation
Psa 27:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?
Psa 27:2 When the wicked came against me To eat up my flesh, My enemies and foes, They stumbled and fell.
Psa 27:3 Though an army may encamp against me, My heart shall not fear; Though war may rise against me, In this I will be confident.
Psa 27:4 One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple.
Psa 27:5 For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.
Psa 27:6 And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me; Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.
Psa 27:7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice! Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
Psa 27:8 When You said, “Seek My face,” My heart said to You, “Your face, LORD, I will seek.”
Psa 27:9 Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; Do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Psa 27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, Then the LORD will take care of me.
Psa 27:11 Teach me Your way, O LORD, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.
Psa 27:12 Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, And such as breathe out violence.
Psa 27:13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.
Psa 27:14 Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD! —NKJV