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Breaux, Mike-Which Rung Are You On?

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Which Rung Are You On?
by Mike Breaux
Text: Matthew 5:1–10
Topic: How Christians should be different.
Big Idea: Jesus calls us to be different.
Keywords: Beatitudes of Christ; Christian Life; Christlikeness; Example, Christ's; Faith; Holiness; Imitation of Christ; Obedience; Spiritual Growth; Spiritual Maturity


Introduction:
  • Illustration: Man who reacts with fury when a server ruins his suit with salad dressing is a church-goer.
  • The Beatitudes are like rungs on the ladder to countercultural living.
The spiritually bankrupt are happy.
  • To be poor in spirit is to admit you need God.
Those who weep over their sin are blessed.
  • Peter wept bitterly after denying Jesus.
Those who turn over the controls to God are happy.
  • Meekness is power under control.
  • We must realize that self-help can't help.
Those who hunger after God are satisfied.
  • Our desires begin to change and this changes us.
  • These first four steps all happen on the inside, and the rest are outward.
Mercy comes out of those who have received mercy.
  • Illustration: One girl showed mercy to a mentally and physically challenged boy.
The ones who are honest with God are happy.
  • Psalm 51:6
Blessed ones change the temperature around them.
  • Illustration: Breaux tells how his wife radiates the presence of Jesus.
  • We can be thermometers or thermostats
Persecution comes to those who are like Jesus.
  • Illustration: Breaux witnessed the fervent prayers of two Chinese pastors who had endured persecution.
Conclusion:
  • Illustration: Breaux shares a prayer for his life, "Fellowship of the Unashamed."
  • Jesus was different, and he calls us to be different too.
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