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Speaker 2: You're listening to a message from Victory. We hope it
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Speaker 3: We are starting a brand new series today and the
Speaker 3: title of our series is Redefined. This is the longest
Speaker 3: sermon that Jesus preached, and this is also going to
Speaker 3: be the longest series we're going to have in Victory.
Speaker 3: This is going to run for sixteen weeks and different
Speaker 3: topics that will be covered.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about.
Speaker 3: From loving your enemies to money, to anxiety to UH,
Speaker 3: marriage and divorce and on all of these things. Six
Speaker 3: ten different topics for the next six ten weeks. And
Speaker 3: it's really interesting as we study this sermon, we're calling
Speaker 3: this Redefined because if you read the sermon, you'll realize
Speaker 3: Jesus was actually redefining the way uh, the way we
Speaker 3: live our lives, and redefined means defining differently or defining again.
Speaker 3: You know, if you're a if you're a Christian and
Speaker 3: you're reading the Bible, I'm sure you came across this
Speaker 3: verse that says, if anyone is in Christ, he's a
Speaker 3: new creation. The old has gone and the new has come.
Speaker 3: So when you're in Christ, everything is made new. There's
Speaker 3: new master. Uh, there's you have You're given a new heart.
Speaker 3: That's why you have new desires. You have a desire
Speaker 3: for God. And now there's a new way of living.
Speaker 3: You know, if you every time you go to a
Speaker 3: different nation, traveler Ohio and travel you you'll instantly notice
Speaker 3: the difference in language or culture.
Speaker 2: Sometimes the smell immediately airport. You know, I still remember the.
Speaker 3: First time I I went out of the country for
Speaker 3: a two weeks mission trip to China.
Speaker 2: It was very different, but.
Speaker 3: I was so used to our culture and living here
Speaker 3: in the Philippines that when I went there, it was
Speaker 3: really a.
Speaker 2: Culture of a shock for me.
Speaker 3: If you go to Japan, you know, immediately you'll see
Speaker 3: people are so disciplined. Gab Robot, very young, line Lanza
Speaker 3: from the elevator to line end up going to the
Speaker 3: train station. They're they're so disciplined. Then you have no
Speaker 3: choice but to adopt so Hi, come in. Become conscious
Speaker 3: when you go to the US, the notice English grabbing
Speaker 3: a red passive. Hey, how's your day? But did processing? Processing?
Speaker 3: But next time, next time. So they're just so good okay,
Speaker 3: and you have to be prepared there the state where
Speaker 3: I stayed for three months because I I was sent
Speaker 3: there and to study for three months.
Speaker 2: Uh, this is a Nashville area hall.
Speaker 3: I really I noticed that people are so uh, they're
Speaker 3: so concerned about their personal space. I like, if you're
Speaker 3: going to enter a convenience store or a restaurant, mean,
Speaker 3: and the moment you passed by tela because you know,
Speaker 3: they're so used to it now. In the same way
Speaker 3: the moment you become a Christian, not only that you
Speaker 3: received salvation, but the Bible says you are uh, you're
Speaker 3: you became part of God's kingdom. We have a new God,
Speaker 3: we have a new Master, and and there's a different
Speaker 3: way of life and so and that's why what this
Speaker 3: series is all about. Okay, it's redefining because we're so
Speaker 3: used to living the life we used to live, and
Speaker 3: so now that we're Christians, we're reorienting and renewing our mind.
Speaker 3: So expect, really expect a culture clash and really a
Speaker 3: reversal of values. Nisantium is a really time value as
Speaker 3: a family and as a Filipino. But now that you're
Speaker 3: a Christian, you're realized sometimes there will be tensions because
Speaker 3: now that you are walking with Christ. So again, for
Speaker 3: the next sixteen weeks, we'll look, well, we're going to
Speaker 3: look at the sermon at the mount So if you
Speaker 3: have your Bible with you, were going to start in
Speaker 3: Matthew chapter five, and we're going to read from verse
Speaker 3: one to twelve. Seeing the crowds went up on the mountain,
Speaker 3: and when he sat down, his disciples came to him,
Speaker 3: and then he opened his mouth and taught them, saying,
Speaker 3: Blessed or the poor and spirit, for theirs is the
Speaker 3: Kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they
Speaker 3: shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall
Speaker 3: inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst
Speaker 3: for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful,
Speaker 3: for they shall receive mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart,
Speaker 3: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for
Speaker 3: they shall be called sons of God. And blessed are
Speaker 3: those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is
Speaker 3: the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when others revile
Speaker 3: you and persecute you, and utter all kinds of evil
Speaker 3: against you, and false persecute you, and other all kinds
Speaker 3: of evil evil against you falsely on my account verse twelve.
Speaker 3: Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven.
Speaker 3: For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Speaker 3: Just to give you a little context about this, Jesus
Speaker 3: just started his ministry after fasting forty days in forteen
Speaker 3: nine see was tempted by the devil. And then after
Speaker 3: that he began his ministry. Immediately after, he started calling
Speaker 3: his first disciples and started ministering to great crowds of people,
Speaker 3: and people love to listen to him. They are it's
Speaker 3: so new to them, and he's preaching with authority, challenging
Speaker 3: the norms and the religious teachings of their time. Now
Speaker 3: in chapter five, verse one, there's this big crowd that's
Speaker 3: waiting for him, and so the Bible says he went
Speaker 3: to the mountain and started teaching them. And in the
Speaker 3: audience are Jesus disciples and people who are new in
Speaker 3: the faith. To go to abosat in Dta, you're just
Speaker 3: maybe one two years in the faith, walking with the Lord,
Speaker 3: and so we can relate to the audience of Jesus. Now,
Speaker 3: maybe you notice canina don'm bin a basapunatin you matt
Speaker 3: you chapter five. Really, at first, when I was studying this,
Speaker 3: it's really counter cultural. It's counter intuitive from the life
Speaker 3: that we know today. The sermon on the mouth will
Speaker 3: not make sense to us unless we understand the meaning
Speaker 3: of the word blessed, because but I'm blessed are those
Speaker 3: who more But that's not what we advocate today. Blessed
Speaker 3: are those who are poor in spirit. No, we don't
Speaker 3: say that. We consider the rich or the wealthy they
Speaker 3: are the blessed ones.
Speaker 2: But poor I don't think so.
Speaker 3: And so all these nine beatitudes, these are really not
Speaker 3: making sense unless we understand the word blessed. So the
Speaker 3: word blessed, if you look at the original meaning of
Speaker 3: this in Greek, it's from the Greek word macario's meaning happy.
Speaker 2: How many of you hear you want to be happy?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm yet to meet somebody who's dream in life
Speaker 3: is to have a miserable and sad life. A prayer
Speaker 3: your Lord and buhiku Sana yungang tele novella Lloyd Wi
Speaker 3: no every everyone I know, we we want to be happy.
Speaker 3: Here's what Blaces Pascal said is a noted Christian leader
Speaker 3: and writer who live in the sixteen hundred. They said,
Speaker 3: all men seek happiness. This is without exception, whatever different
Speaker 3: means they employ, they all tend to this end. The
Speaker 3: cause of some going to war and of others avoiding
Speaker 3: it is the same desire in both attended with different views.
Speaker 3: This is the motive of every action of every man.
Speaker 3: So we're we're all looking for happiness, and many times
Speaker 3: that's the motivation behind everything that we do. Why am
Speaker 3: I doing this? And that's because of the pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3: I want to be happy. I want to make somebody happy.
Speaker 3: I want to make my wife happy. I want So
Speaker 3: it's the motivation and everything that we do. Another meaning
Speaker 3: of the word blessed or macarius is uninviable state worthy
Speaker 3: of congratulations. So again Paran, it doesn't make sense, Paran.
Speaker 3: If you're blessed, you're somebody who ought to be congratulated,
Speaker 3: just like Stephen Curry, who is now who landed the
Speaker 3: biggest offer in the NBA congratulated by Lebron.
Speaker 2: Again. But contract congratulations.
Speaker 3: Now, that's the meaning of macarios, an inward contentedness that
Speaker 3: is not affected by circumstances. Now, during the time of Jesus,
Speaker 3: every time they word they use the word blessed, Normally
Speaker 3: they think of the gods, the Greek gods, or the dead.
Speaker 2: Who's considered.
Speaker 3: Must blessed by Yumanhapatai, I know, because there's no bad
Speaker 3: things that's ever going to happen to them again. So
Speaker 3: every time the word blessed is mentioned, they will assign
Speaker 3: that to the Greek gods, to the dead, or to
Speaker 3: the super rich during their time.
Speaker 2: And you cannot consider nil na blessed. Okay, people who are.
Speaker 3: Considered to be immune from problems and all the challenges
Speaker 3: that normal people experience. You know, if you if you
Speaker 3: search an Instagram the hashtag blessed, you'll find out there
Speaker 3: are seventy four million hashtag right no blessed, say Instagram brinousmo.
Speaker 3: Most of it really pertains to either a promotion, material
Speaker 3: or financials. It's referring to healing or improvement in health
Speaker 3: or a place that they visited, or it refers to
Speaker 3: a to a happening or people. So normally and yumaa,
Speaker 3: if it's a being, I'm blessed, dam parking, a God
Speaker 3: blessed or Nita and be praying blessed in church. So
Speaker 3: normally it refers to a good thing happening, or a
Speaker 3: good thing that happened to someone.
Speaker 2: Now that's our idea of blessed.
Speaker 3: No wonder, considering the meaning of blessed or Machario's a
Speaker 3: happiness that is not based on external and the circumstance,
Speaker 3: no wonder. If this is our definition of blessed, something
Speaker 3: that is based on something that is temporal or external,
Speaker 3: then we will not be happy and we will not
Speaker 3: consider ourselves blessed because these things come and go, like healing.
Speaker 3: You know, we pray for healing, and healing is good.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying these things are not good. It's good
Speaker 3: to have these things. These are blessings, but these are
Speaker 3: not the primary basis in order for us to say
Speaker 3: that someone is blessed.
Speaker 2: According to the teaching of Jesus, the beatitudes, these are not.
Speaker 3: So whether you have this or not, you can be
Speaker 3: a blessed person, because the idea of blessed is something
Speaker 3: that is not based on external or temporal again, like.
Speaker 2: Healing the bye.
Speaker 3: If you pray for healing tapas gumlinka pah, blessed, but
Speaker 3: you know that's temporal because you will get sick again
Speaker 3: and eventually we'll all die, So that's not really the
Speaker 3: greatest blessing of all. I was talking to my daughter.
Speaker 3: I guess two days ago we are having this conversation.
Speaker 3: She was invited to a birthday party and they stayed
Speaker 3: in Kazana for almost the entire day. Man, I don't know,
Speaker 3: nine ten am and then have to pick her up
Speaker 3: num four pm because I have a victory group six o'clock, so.
Speaker 2: I have to go there.
Speaker 3: And when I went there, I saw her said, pinnaup,
Speaker 3: how is Kitzena? And she was not happy, She's sad.
Speaker 3: She's complaining a lot of about a lot of things.
Speaker 3: And I just knew that it was a discipleship moment.
Speaker 3: So I stopped the car and talked to her and
Speaker 3: I said, why are you? Why are you complaining? And
Speaker 3: so after talking to her and trying to draw out
Speaker 3: what and help her process what she's feeling. She said,
Speaker 3: because every time it's about to end, like this is
Speaker 3: not just about kidzying. I've noticed this several times already,
Speaker 3: And she said, because every time it's about to end,
Speaker 3: I feel sad.
Speaker 2: And it makes sense, but I.
Speaker 3: Have to explain to her that, okay, but you have
Speaker 3: to understand that it's not always going to be fun.
Speaker 3: And if you don't learn that today, you're going to
Speaker 3: grow up frustrated and disappointed because it's not.
Speaker 2: Always going to be fun. But you can always be grateful.
Speaker 3: When you understand that you're blessed and you have a
Speaker 3: lot of things to be thankful about. So I have
Speaker 3: to teach her that and talk to her. In Dephesions,
Speaker 3: chapter one, verse three, it says, blessed be the God
Speaker 3: and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed
Speaker 3: us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.
Speaker 3: You know, one thing we need to understand about being
Speaker 3: blessed is that it doesn't start with a happening or
Speaker 3: a promotion.
Speaker 2: It starts with a right relationship with God. You know.
Speaker 2: The first beatitude it says, blessed or the poor in spirit?
Speaker 2: What does it mean? Poor in spirit.
Speaker 3: I like what Alexander MacLaren said about this. He said,
Speaker 3: to be poor in spirit is to be an inmost reality,
Speaker 3: conscious of need, of emptiness, of dependence on God, of
Speaker 3: the merit. The true estimate of self as blind, evil,
Speaker 3: weak is intended so that what it means to be
Speaker 3: poor in the spirit, it means realizing your real spiritual
Speaker 3: condition and the moment that you are morally bankrupt, and
Speaker 3: in spite of having these things, without Christ in your
Speaker 3: life and without your sins being forgiven, you basically have nothing.
Speaker 3: The Bible says, apart from Christ, you're nothing.
Speaker 2: We have nothing. And the Bible says, the moment.
Speaker 3: We realize that, the moment our eyes are opened, and
Speaker 3: the moment we humble ourselves and say, Lord, apart from you,
Speaker 3: all of these things it's worthless. The Bible says, you're blessed. Congratulation,
Speaker 3: because now you're going to encounter God and you're going
Speaker 3: to experience what it really means to be blessed, because
Speaker 3: blessed doesn't start with having a material thing. It starts
Speaker 3: with a right relationship with God. So blessed, sabimo, you're blessed.
Speaker 3: So whether you get what you're praying for or not,
Speaker 3: doesn't matter. You're still blessed. Whether you receive your healing
Speaker 3: or not, You're still blessed. You know, the Bible says
Speaker 3: we will not receive in this life all that God
Speaker 3: has promised for us. Some of it were going to
Speaker 3: receive here, but some of it were not going to.
Speaker 2: Receive in this life. But it's okay because Jesus is
Speaker 2: going to return and he promised to restore all things.
Speaker 3: And you may not receive what God promised in this life.
Speaker 3: For sure, when he returns, God will fulfill all his
Speaker 3: promises to you and me, and in the end he
Speaker 3: will still be proven faithful. So we are blessed because
Speaker 3: our hope is not just in this life, but in
Speaker 3: the life to come. Another observation about the realtitude is
Speaker 3: that one of the most important but overlooked details about
Speaker 3: the Sermon on the Mount is where Jesus gave the sermon.
Speaker 3: There is a reason for including that detail. Where Jesus
Speaker 3: preached the sermon on the mount. It can happen in
Speaker 3: the temple, but Jesus gave this sermon on the mount,
Speaker 3: and he was talking about the law. That's why he
Speaker 3: kept on referring. If you read chapter five six seven,
Speaker 3: you would notice that Jesus would say, you know that
Speaker 3: it's written, So he's referring to the law that Moses gave,
Speaker 3: and then he will redefine its meaning or upgrade the
Speaker 3: people's understanding of it. So this is the similarity between
Speaker 3: Jesus giving the Sermon on the Mount and Moses giving
Speaker 3: the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai is that they gave.
Speaker 2: The law after they were saved and delivery.
Speaker 3: Moses gave the Ten Commandments after God delivered the Israelites
Speaker 3: from Egypt from four hundred years of slavery, and when
Speaker 3: they crossed the Red Sea, the Bible says, that's baptism.
Speaker 3: And I would understand, why can you imagine one two
Speaker 3: million Israelites crossing the Red Sea. Can you imagine Moses
Speaker 3: conmnanual baptism.
Speaker 2: Every day.
Speaker 3: So the Bible says, when they crossed the Red Sea,
Speaker 3: that's a picture of baptism. So when they reached this
Speaker 3: point of Moses giving the law the Ten Commandments, they
Speaker 3: were delivered their saved. So the law is not for
Speaker 3: them to obey so that they will be saved. No,
Speaker 3: I will live that way because I am saved. God
Speaker 3: was starting a new nation. They were so used to
Speaker 3: the life that they lived in Egypt, having stayed there
Speaker 3: for four hundred years. Etian culture in a young way
Speaker 3: off La now that they are in God and God
Speaker 3: is starting a new nation under God.
Speaker 2: God is to give them the Ten Commandments so they
Speaker 2: would know how to live as the people of God.
Speaker 3: So in the same way the sermon on the on
Speaker 3: the mouth, it's these are things that we ought to live,
Speaker 3: not so God will bless us. No, we're already blessed.
Speaker 3: That's why we're going to live this way. In fact,
Speaker 3: understanding that you are blessed will enable you to live
Speaker 3: this way. Be guess having Lord so parent double meaning
Speaker 3: you know you're blessed. If you continually do this, you
Speaker 3: will continue you will be blessed in a greater way.
Speaker 3: But also you will be able to live this way
Speaker 3: because you're blessed. You can be hungry and thirsty for
Speaker 3: righteousness because you're given a new heart. You can be meek,
Speaker 3: humble and not asserting your yourself over others because you
Speaker 3: know God has already given you all things, and God
Speaker 3: promised to exalt the humble. So in the Goohila, I
Speaker 3: am a manipulate I don't know. I don't need to
Speaker 3: force myself.
Speaker 2: I can be meek.
Speaker 3: We can be merciful because we had been shown mercy.
Speaker 3: How many of you here you know you receive mercy
Speaker 3: from God? And how many of you here you need
Speaker 3: mercy every day. That's why the Bible says it's mercy,
Speaker 3: it's you every morning. That's why I can be merciful
Speaker 3: to others. That's why I can extend mercy even to
Speaker 3: those who have wronged me. You know why, because I'm
Speaker 3: a recipient of God's mercy, and the Bible says, be
Speaker 3: merciful the way God has been merciful to you.
Speaker 2: We can be pure in heart, blessed or the pure
Speaker 2: in heart. We can be pure in heart.
Speaker 3: We can live a life of integrity, live pure and
Speaker 3: holy because we're no longer slaved to sin because of
Speaker 3: what Christ is done for us.
Speaker 2: Because we have Christ in us, we can live in freedom.
Speaker 2: We can follow Christ. We can live for him. We
Speaker 2: can be pure in heart. We can be peacemaker.
Speaker 3: Because God did not only save you and me, he
Speaker 3: gave us a ministry of reconciliation.
Speaker 2: We can rejoice and be glad.
Speaker 3: Even when we are persecuted for our faith, because the
Speaker 3: Bible says the life we live, we no longer live
Speaker 3: for ourselves, but we live for.
Speaker 2: God, who gave his life for us. God Lord Nay
Speaker 2: well as China. He gave everything. He gave his life.
Speaker 3: And because of what Christ has done, I can also
Speaker 3: surrender all. I can also give my all because of
Speaker 3: what Christ is done for us. So I am blessed
Speaker 3: because I have Christ. So whether God Is have answered
Speaker 3: my prayer requests already or not, I'm still blessed because
Speaker 3: I have Christ.
Speaker 2: And because I am blessed, I can live this way,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: As I end, and verse twelve the summary of the Beatitudes,
Speaker 3: it says, rejoice and be glad, for your reward is
Speaker 3: great in heaven.
Speaker 2: For great is your reward in heaven. You know.
Speaker 3: I my rest day is Monday Sunday because it may
Speaker 3: work now, so Mondays are our day off, and I
Speaker 3: always look forward to Monday.
Speaker 2: That the helicong hashtag I love Monday.
Speaker 3: And sometimes you know, you know, we will work Tuesday
Speaker 3: to Sunday, maybe weeksta like I saw loaded. Let me
Speaker 3: you'll start it early and then you'll go home twelve.
Speaker 3: There's just sometimes it's just crazy. But you know, because
Speaker 3: I know there's Monday, I can just work with all
Speaker 3: my heart. May nely look forward to the balid three days,
Speaker 3: you know, Monday five pm. You mayly look forward God.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you know, if you're looking forward to something,
Speaker 3: it motivates you to endure al Am called temporary six days.
Speaker 3: On the seventh day, God rested, and I will rest.
Speaker 2: So it's okay, what are you waiting for? What are
Speaker 2: you hoping for?
Speaker 3: The Bible says we can live this way because great
Speaker 3: is our reward in heaven. My reward is not just
Speaker 3: in this life. My reward is Christ himself when he returns.
Speaker 3: I know that everything in this world is just temporary,
Speaker 3: success or failure temporary. There's something that is eternal, and
Speaker 3: that's what I look forward to. And so if you
Speaker 3: have that view, the Bible says, you're blessed. No, there's
Speaker 3: this verse in the Bible, my Life Versus. When I
Speaker 3: was in college, it says whoever loses his life for
Speaker 3: his sake will find it, but whoever keep his life
Speaker 3: will lose it. Before I cannot understand what that means,
Speaker 3: but now I understand if I lose the life I
Speaker 3: know for him, in the process, I will find the
Speaker 3: life He desires for me. You know, there's this life
Speaker 3: that I know. I've been holding onto this, I'm not
Speaker 3: willing to let go. I've been embracing this. I'm not
Speaker 3: sure if there's something better than this, But the Bible says,
Speaker 3: if you lose your life, you will find it. And
Speaker 3: sometimes there are Christians that, even though they are in christ,
Speaker 3: they are not experiencing the life that God wants for them.
Speaker 2: You know why, because they are not willing to let
Speaker 2: go the life that they used to live and the
Speaker 2: life that they know.
Speaker 3: So my encouragement for us is to lose that old
Speaker 3: life and embrace the life that God is offering to us. Amen, Lord,
Speaker 3: thank you for renewing our mind today, and thank you
Speaker 3: for helping us understand what it means to be blessed,
Speaker 3: what it means to really have joy and happiness that
Speaker 3: is not temporary, not temporal, but eternal. Lord, thank you
Speaker 3: for helping us understand that we are blessed not because
Speaker 3: we have a big salary, or family, wife, or kids,
Speaker 3: or good health. No, we are blessed because we have You.
Speaker 3: And that's the reason we are bless. So Lord, I
Speaker 3: pray Lord, that you will change the way we see
Speaker 3: life and the way we see the world. I pray
Speaker 3: more and more as we walk with you, we will
Speaker 3: acquire your values, your mindset, your word. I pray we
Speaker 3: will see life the way you see it. And I
Speaker 3: pray we will align our heart and our life to you.
Speaker 3: So thank you, Lord, establish us in your word. Let
Speaker 3: your word search our heart even today, if there's anything
Speaker 3: in our heart, if there's any idol, anything or anyone
Speaker 3: where we are basing our happiness, if there's anything or
Speaker 3: anyone other than you that will look to for meaning, significance, value,
Speaker 3: or worth, I pray that only you will be our source,
Speaker 3: will be our God, and will be a reason for living.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Lord Lord. I pray for those of us here.
Speaker 3: Today who don't yet have a relationship with you, I
Speaker 3: pray today you will open.
Speaker 2: Their eyes and help them realize that they are poor
Speaker 2: in spirit. They may be rich in terms of money
Speaker 2: or material things, but apart from You, they have nothing.
Speaker 3: And I pray that that would cost them to humble
Speaker 3: themselves before you, to hunger and thirst for righteousness, to
Speaker 3: mourn and be grieve about their sins and turn to you.
Speaker 3: And Lord, you said, that's how we become blessed. So
Speaker 3: thank you Lord for this afternoon. Thank you for your word.
Speaker 2: We honor you, God, Lord, We declare you are worthy
Speaker 2: to be worship and you are worthy to be praise.
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